flickr lookup (place linked); wikip; amz also linked for perusal
- Shadow of the Silk Road (placenames) by Colin Thubron (author page at amazon)
flickr syntax (e.g. aksu) https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=aksu
wikip> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksu
amz> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=aksu
aksu xj
alamut (fort; HQ for 'assassins') ir west of tehran
andijan kr
andkvoi ag
anxi cn
charklik xj
cherchen xj
dunhuang xj
gawhar shad mosque in meshed ir
herat ag
kerbela rq
keriya xj
khotan xj
korla xj
kochoi, tomb of -cn kr
kunduz ag
maimundiz fort ir caspian
maragheh ir
margilan kr
mazar-e-sharif ag
merv tr
meshed ir
nishapur ir
niya xj
orontes river
osh kr
oxus river =amu darya uzbek
tabriz ir
tash rabat kr
tus ir
yarkand xj