Maracanda
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Maracanda
the name used by classical writers for the ancient city that was the capital of Sogdiana (Transoxiana). It was located in what is now Samarkand.
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