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Where in the world
Kazakhstan
The site
Otrar, also called Farab, is an ancient city in southern Kazakhstan that stood on the Silk Road at the border between settled and agricultural civilizations. At the center of a great oasis, it commanded a key crossroads linking Kazakhstan with China, Europe, the Middle East, Siberia, and the Urals, making it one of the most important cities in the history of Central Asia.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Sogdian
- types
- City
- occupied
- 100 CE — 1,700 CE
- country
- Kazakhstan
- elevation
- 506 m above sea level
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Otrar
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Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhariborn hereArabic lexicographerI✶
Inalchuqborn hereKhwarazmian governorMI✶
Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAbbās Khuwārizmīborn hereIranian poetAA✶
Abu-l-Qasim al-Farabiborn hereMuslim philosopher and scholarQA✶
Qiwam al-Din al-Farabiborn hereMuslim scholar from Farab (Otrar)Chronicle
What happened at Otrar
- 1,219 CEOtrar Catastrophe
- 1,405 CEDeath of Timur
