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town ca. 30 km southeast of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, containing monuments of historical, archeological, and epigraphic significance, IU rgut is first mentioned as the location of a monastery of the Church of the East. Archeological finds include wearable crosses of iron, ceramic wares with Christian motifs, a bronze censer, and fragments of stucco decoration ..

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URGUT (U[-gut), 391)24'8" N~61'14'35"

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Samarkand,

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Uzbekistan,

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Urgut is a large town (population

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the Zarafshan

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ea, 50~000) and ccntcr of a county It is situated on the foothills of

range (northern Pamir), Visitors are attracted

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bazaar, as well as two notable shrines (nlaza~~).One, Car Cenar

the spectacular

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landscaped. by the Emir of Bukhara in 1813) ~is dedicated killed by the "unbelievers"

Khoja Abu Talcb Sarmast, a Samanid missionary

,..ritll the graves of his brothers and companions,

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Khoja Bazman, Khoja Sag rasan

and Khoja Amon, The second ulazar (in Saygus, southeast

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Jilani (d. 1166), the

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founder of the Qadori Sufi order, that the village of Aspandiza

takes its name f1'On1a sanctuary patroness

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who possibly may have been regarded as the

of the area (Smiruova,

pp. 95-96). More tangible traces of the past can be of U rgut, an [early medieval Zoroastrian

seen at the. site of Jar Tepe northeast

tem plc, where a num bel' of murals were found during archeological (B crdimuradov

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(mod. Ispanza), cast of Urgut

of the pre- Islamic female deity Aspan [darmat]

Sp~nta Annaiti, Sogd. 'sp'ntrmt),

excavations

and Sami baev),

In written sources, Urgut is first mentioned

as the location ofa monastery

Church of the East: "On al-Saw