Taraz

Taraz is a metropolis and the place of work of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas River in the south of the us of a near the border with Kyrgyzstan. It had a populace of 330,100, up 9% from 1989, making it one of the quickest-growing cities in the countery., after Nur-Sultan and Turkistan. One of the oldest towns in Kazakhstan and in Transoxania, constructed and populated by the ancient Sogdians, Taraz celebrated its reliable 2000th anniversary in 2001, courting from a castle constructed inside the place by using a Xiongnu Chanyu named Zhizhi and changed into a website of the Battle of Zhizhi in 36 BCE.

The town turned into first recorded below the call "Talas" in 568 CE via Menander Protector. The medieval city of Talas turned into a main exchange centre along the Silk Road. Talas turned into later defined by means of Xuanzang, who exceeded Talas in 629 and later wrote: Traveling westward from the Thousand Springs one hundred forty or one hundred fifty li, we come to the town of Daluosi. The city is eight or nine li in diameter; and become settled via Hu merchants from diverse nations. The products and the climate are approximately the same as Suyab. The Talas alphabet, a variant of the Turkic "runiform" Orkhon script, is called for the city.