Thomas A. Carlson (ed.), "Samarqand" in last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/865 Samarqand سَمَرقند 39.656498 66.947223 Attestation of name سَمَرقند in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. http://syriaca.org/place/865 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samarkand David Wilmshurst The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 19 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915 Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī III:279