Brewer's: Treasury of Sciences

Bokhara (Asia), the centre of learning. It has 103 colleges, with 10,000 students, besides a host of schools and 360 mosques.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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