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Bukhara

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Jun 08, 2022 04:33 PM — History

tags: UWHS

Bukhara began as part of the Persian empire in the sixth century B.C. The site is especially important as an example of an Islamic city of central Asia. The city center was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/762205391

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
39.7675529, 64.4231326

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Bukhara (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Bukhara makes connections with:

None

Bukhara receives connections from:

Char Bakr located near Bukhara (AD 1300 - Present)

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Bukhara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/762205391> [accessed: 23 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/762205391 |title=Places: 762205391 (Bukhara) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 23, 2024 5:58 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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