place
Balkh
also: بلخ
Great city of eastern Khorasan (in today's Afghanistan), proverbially remote from Baghdad; the §53 pair names the world's two ends that the full measure makes indifferent.
Reading notes
- The Rubaiyat §53 Balkh
Balkh, the great Khorasanian city, Baghdad's eastern counterweight in the proverb: east or west, the full measure empties the same way.