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Kunduz
Kunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, capital of Kunduz province, on the Kunduz River in the fertile plain of ancient Bactria. It was a capital of Tokharistan under the Hephthalites and the Turkic yabghus, and in the 19th century the seat of Murad Beg's Uzbek khanate of Kataghan. It remains a key junction on the road to Tajikistan.
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