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Farab in Tajikistan or Turkmenistan, early 1940s?
Testimony in an archival document cites a locale called Farab "in Tajikistan or Turkmenistan." A family from the Western Ukraine spent the early years of World War II there. Is there any corroborative evidence for this place? -- Deborahjay (talk) 06:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Otrar
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Otrar's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Iranica": From Uzbeks: Richard H. Rowland, Richard N. Frye, C. Edmund Bosworth, Bertold Spuler, Robert D. McChesney, Yuri Bregel, Abbas Amanat, Edward Allworth, Peter B. Golden, Robert D. McChesney, Ian Matley, Ivan M. Steblin-Kamenskij, Gerhard Doerfer, Keith Hitchins, Walter Feldman. Central Asia, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, v., Online Edition, 2007, (LINK) From Silk Road: Sogdian Trade, Encyclopedia Iranica, (retrieved 15 June 2007)  From Al-Farabi:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:13, 24 September 2012 (UTC)