“Ḥudūd al-cĀlam” about cities and settlements of Maverannahr in the early Islamic period

This article concerns towns and settlements of Mavarannahr of the early Islam period after the information from an anonym geographic work with the Arab title “Ḥudūd al-‘ālam min al-Mashriq ilá l-Maghrib” (“The limits of the World from the east to the west”) written in the year 372 of Hijrah (AD 982). This writing has attracted the attention of many historians and orientalists both in Russia and abroad. Nevertheless, there is no complete translation of this book, and so we first present information in Russian from this source about cities and settlements of Central Asia of the early Islamic period. In addition, we have succeeded, on the basis of archaeological evidence, to localize a number of cities and settlements mentioned in this source. Original and modern names of some rivers and lakes have been identified as well.