ANDKHUI, northern khanate in Afghan Turkistan, allotted to Afghanistan by the Russo-Afghan boundary commission (1885). Also the chief town of the khanate, loom. W. of Balkh on the edge of the low Turkoman desert, said to have been founded by Alexander the Great. Having been for a while subject to Buk hara, it was taken and ruined by Mahmud Khan in 182o, and its khan thereupon sought the help of the Afghans. The population has been estimated at 15,000 and includes Turkomans, some Uz begs and a few Ta j iks. The climate is unhealthy, but the soil fer tile, the water is brackish, and flies and scorpions abound.