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Richard N. Frye, « Early Bukhara », Cahiers d’Asie centrale, ID : 10670/1.z828zl
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“Bukhara is one of the most ancient cities in Central Asia... Bukhara is at least 2,500 years old, just like Samarkand”. This seems to be the official Uzbek version, based on finds of ancient coins and other remains, but is it plausible? If we examine the text of Narshakhi’s history of the city, however, we find the following: “This place, which today is Bukhara, [formerly] was a swamp; part of it was a bed of reeds and part planted with trees and a meadow. Some places were such that no anima...