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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Â© Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Ghazni, Afghanistan Alexandria (of the Paropanisades), Ghazna Named originally after Alexander III the Great^† c.330 bc, the present name comes from the Dari (the dialect of Persian spoken in Afghanistan) ganj ‘treasure’. Refounded in the 9th century by Yakub, the Emir of Sistan, it was the capital of the huge Ghaznavid Empire between 977 and 1140.

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