al-Shāsh - طشقند
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al-Shāsh; طشقند; Tashkent; الشاش
[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.).
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
location: 41.26465 69.21627
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5126
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5126
identifier: http://sws.geonames.org/1512569
Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 9
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://sws.geonames.org/1512569 GeoNames Marc Wick