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🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Penjikent — Buried House Complex North (Sogdiana, Tajikistan) in Sughd, Penjikent, Tajikistan is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attr…
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Ancient city
Early Medieval Sogdian (5th–8th century CE) · Sogdian (easternmost Sogd)
Easternmost Sogdian Silk Road city — 13.5 ha frescoed shahristan with Rustam murals and Mount Mug letters.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Ancient city
Sogdian 5th–8th c → Early Islamic 8th–9th c CE · Ustrushana Sogdian (Shahriston) → Samanid
Bunjikat — capital of Ustrushana (5th–9th c CE) 40 km SE Khujand, excavated 1940s–90s Negmatov (Tajik Academy).
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Fortress
Sogdian 5th–8th c → Samanid–Karakhanid 10th–13th c · Sogdian → Samanid Islamic (Zeravshan valley)
Chilhudzhra (Fortress of Forty Daughters) — Sogdian–Islamic mountain fortress (5th–13th c CE) 60 km east Panjakent, Zeravshan valley Fann foothills, excavated 1960s–80s Negmatov and Pulatov.
