al-Shāsh - طشقند
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“[U]sually written Tās̲h̲kend or Tas̲h̲kend in Arabic and Persian manuscripts, a large town in Central Asia, in the oasis of the Čirčik, watered by one of the right bank tributaries of the Si̊r Daryā [q.v.] or Jaxartes now, since the break-up of the USSR, in the Uzbekistan Republic (lat. 41° 16’ N., long. 69° 13’ E.).” 2
Names
- الشاش1
- طشقند
- al-Shāsh
- Tashkent
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 41.26465° Long. 69.21627°3
Descriptions
“ثم صورت نهر جيحون وما وراء من اعمال بخارا وسمرقند وأشروسنة وأسبيجاب والشاش وخوارزم الى جميع ما تشتمل عليه من المياه وتحيط به من الطرق والمسالك” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 9.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/1512569," GeoNames
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“al-Shāsh - طشقند .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5126.About this Entry
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Additional Credit:
- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
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