Balkh is considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that the city has been occupied since at least the mid-1st millennium bce, though some historians suggest an even older origin. It was the capital and an important center of the ancient region of Bactria.
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