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Qarshi

Cistern, Karshi
sikandarji

The city of Karshi or Qarchi developed from a colony which was established from the 7th century BC. It was then that defensive walls began to be built around the ancient city. The remains of the ruins of these walls were first studied by archaeologists in 1999.

There is evidence that the city at this time had the Sogdian name Navtak, which can literally be translated as "New Building". As part of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, the city may have been called Eucratideus.

Today it has some 200,000 inhabitants and is located in the southwest of Samarkand in the province of Kachkadaria.

Important historical monuments in the city are the Kok Mosque, also called Kok Gumbez, the Tamerlan Bridge over the Kachdaria River, the Khuzhai-Zharrokh funeral complex and the city cemetery with ancient tombs.

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