Khwārazm - خوارزم
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Khwārazm; خوارزم; Khwarezm; Chorasmia; Xvârazm; Khiva
[I]n post-Mongol times increasingly known as K̲h̲īwa, the province lying along the lower course of the Amū Daryā [q.v.] or Oxus, classical Chorasmia. In the early Islamic period, the southern boundary of K̲h̲wārazm was considered to be at Ṭāhiriyya, five days’ journey downstream from Āmul-i S̲h̲aṭṭ (modern Čārd̲j̲ūy), the crossing-place of the K̲h̲urāsān-Buk̲h̲ārā caravan route. Ṭāhiriyya lay just to the south of the gorge of the "lion’s mouth", Dahān-i S̲h̲īr, where the river narrows at modern Düldül Atlag̲h̲ān near Pitnyak.
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: 41.5 60.5
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5350
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5350
identifier: http://sws.geonames.org/1484843
Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 9
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://sws.geonames.org/1484843 GeoNames Marc Wick