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with sacred aspirations accordance with the Turkish etiquette at today's
archaeological site known as Afrasiyap Hill ( Fig. 1 ) . Samarkand is located
in the area called Mawarannahr (Transoxiana) , between the rivers of Amu
Darya (ancient Oxus) and Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes) , in the oasis of
Zarafshan watered by Zarafshan river. Besides the beauty of this location
Samarkand was also blessed with a gift of fertility. With six hundred thou-
sand inhabitants, she still stands as the agricultural core of Central Asia, as
a testimony to the fertility of this land that has been abiding right through
the ages (Fig. 2).
FIGURE 1
City of Afrasiab Illustration (Arapov, 2006).
FIGURE 2
Map of Uzbekistan (www.orsam.org.tr).
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