Thomas A. Carlson (eds.), "Samarqand" in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/865
    
        
            
                
                    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
                    
                    
                        39.656498 66.947223
                    
                    
                        Attestation of name سَمَرقند in the Muʿjam
                                al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.
                        
                    
                    
                    https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/865
                    http://syriaca.org/place/865
                    http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand
                    http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samarkand
                    
                        David Wilmshurst
                        The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the
                            East, 1318-1913
                        
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                        http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.
                        
                    
                    
                        Muʿjam al-buldān
                        Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī
                        
                        III279
                    
                        Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat
                            al-aqālīmMuḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī
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                    Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second EditionP. Bearman