{"book":"adl0940","page":177,"text":"۱۷۲\nترکستان\n\nاداره ملکی و سیاسی\n\nاین ولایت از جهت اداره به اویزدهای سمرقند،\nکته قورغان، دیزخ و خجند تقسیم میشود.\nسمرقند - (۵۹ هزار نفوس دارد) . این شهر\nمرکز ولایت بوده، از سطح دریا ۹۷۵ آرشین ارتفاع\nدارد. ازین جهت هوایش هوای کوهستانی، یعنی\nسرد و سالم میباشد. شهر سمرقند دو قسم بوده، یکی\nشهر کهنه و دیگری شهر نو است. در میانه این دو شهر\nفقط باغی موجود است.\nسمرقند کهنه با باغهای اطرافش ۴۷۲۹ دساتین\nزمین را اشغال مینماید. در میانه سمرقند بنام «ریگستان»\nمیدان بزرگی موجود است که در اطراف آن بنام\nطلا کاری، شیردار، میرزا الوغ بک مدرسه های عالی\nو جامعهای شریف واقع است.\nسمرقند شهر خیلی قدیمی است. نظر بروایات،\nاین شهر راسی عصر قبل از میلاد پادشاه ایران کیکاوس","chars":653,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0940/00177.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":383,"title":"Turkistān mutarjim Sayyid Riz̤ā ʻAlī Zādah ترکستان","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0940/177","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0940/canvas/177","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0940/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0940_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}