(eds.), "al-Shāsh - طشقند " in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5126 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 41.26465 69.21627 https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5126 http://syriaca.org/place/5126 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/1512569GeoNames Marc Wick