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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 7731783, member: 82322&quot;]&quot;Chach&quot; is a place.&nbsp; It&#039;s an oasis.&nbsp; This place&#039;s name later changes to &quot;Shash&quot;, and then to &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent" rel="nofollow">Tashkent</a>&quot;.&nbsp; Wikipedia says both &quot;Shash comes from the Turkic name Tash - outer, kand - town, that is, &#039;outer town&#039;&quot; and &quot;&#039;Tashkent&#039; means &quot;stone city&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The writing is Sogdian, and it is likely the people who made it were Sogdian inhabitants of Chach.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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