1. Birth at Afshana

    · Afshana, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan

    Birth at Afshana
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    Avicenna was born in the village of Afshana near Bukhara, beginning a life that would later take him among the courts of Central Asia and Iran. The year is circa 980; coordinates represent modern Afshana.

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