Region: Central Asia · Coordinates: 36.756, 66.897 · 8 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 630 | Xuanzang, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions | Going west he reached the country of Po-ho (Balkh); it is 800 li from east to west and 400 li from north to south, and the Oxus borders it on the north. |
| AD 642 | Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings | Yazdegerd is defeated at Balkh and crosses the Oxus |
| AD 1271 | Marco Polo, The Travels (Yule translation) | Balkh was once larger and had many marble palaces, but the Mongols and others destroyed it, and it became ruins. |
| AD 1333 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Crossing the Oxus (Jayhun) into Khurasan, after a day and a half through desert and sandy ground he reaches the ruined city of Balkh. Its solid buildings still look like a thriving city, but no one lives there |
| AD 1335 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Two years after arriving in India, he learns that Tatar nobles had made his cousin Buzun king and deposed Tarmashirin for violating Genghis Khan's law code. Tarmashirin, trying to flee to Ghazna with only fifteen men, was seized at Balkh by the men of his nephew Yanki and imprisoned |
| AD 1513 | Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur) | Isma'il took Balkh from the Uzbeks. |
| AD 1513 | Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur) | When word came that the people of Balkh supported the Uzbek chief, someone went to Babur (translator's note section). |
| AD 1517 | Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur) | Babur visited Balkh. |