Samarqand
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Samarqand; سَمَرقند; سمرقند
An ancient city of Transoxania, the Arabic Māʾ warāʾ al-Nahr [q.v.], situated on the southern bank of the Zarafs̲h̲ān river or Nahr Ṣug̲h̲d.
فالامصار سمرقند ايرانشهر شهرستان اردبيل همذان الاهواز شيراز السيرجان المنصورة زبيد مكة بغداد الموصل دمشق الفسطاط القيروان قرطبة
location: 39.656498 66.947223
event: 1224/1228
Attestation of name سَمَرقند in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/865
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/865
identifier: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915
identifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand
identifier: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samarkand
David Wilmshurst The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 19
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915 Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.
Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī III 279
Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī 47
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman