Ṭukhāristān - طخارستان
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Ṭukhāristān; طخارستان; Tocharistan; طخيرستان
[T]he name found in earlier mediaeval Islamic sources for the region along the southern banks of the middle and upper Oxus river, in the wider sense of the term (see below), with the ancient of the Balk̲h̲ as the centre of its western part and such towns as Ṭālaḳān, Andarāb and Walwālīd̲j̲ [q.vv.] as its centres in the narrower acceptation of the term, sc. the eastern part.
وصورت خراسان وما في ضمنها من طخيرستان وجبال الباميان وطوس وقوهستان بجميع مياههم الجارية وجبالهم المشهورة ورمالها وطرقها المعروفة
وربما كان للمصراو للقصبة نواح لها مدن مثل طخارستان لبلخ والبطائح لواسط والزاب لافريقية
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5503
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5503
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Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 9
Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī 47
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman