Daroot-Korgon (also ''Daraut-Kurghan'' or ''Darautkorgon'' or ''Daroot-Qurghan'') is a village in the western
Alay Valley of
Osh Region,
Kyrgyzstan. It is the capital of
Chong-Alay District
Chong-Alay District (big Alay) ( ky, Чоң Алай району; russian: Чон-Алайский район) is a district of Osh Region in far south-western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat lies at Daroot-Korgon. Its area is , and its reside ...
. Its population was 6,421 in 2021.
It is about 90 km west of
Sary-Tash
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on the river
Kyzyl-Suu
Kyzyl-Suu ( ky, Кызыл-Суу, formerly known as ''Pokrovka'') is a village in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan. About 10km inland from Lake Issyk Kul on the A363 highway between Jeti-Ögüz resort and Barskoon, it is the capital of Jeti-Ö ...
. To the north is a route to
Osh via the
Tengizbay
Tengizbay is a mountain pass at the border of Batken Region and Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its elevation is .Soviet military maJ-43-01(1:200,000) It connects the village Daroot-Korgon in the Alay Valley with the city Kyzyl-Kiya in the Fergana Vall ...
pass, used by Russian explorers before the construction of the road though
Sary-Tash
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.
To the south, the Altyn River flows north through a deep valley in the
Trans-Alay Range. At the head of the valley is a Tajik border post and then
Altyn Mazar
Altyn (Russian , also ''altýnnik'') is a historical Russian currency (symbol: ). The name in Tatar is ''altı'' () meaning "six", since it was worth 6 dengas, equivalent to three kopeck silver, then copper, a small value coin, or 180–206 co ...
on the river
Muksu which flows west to join the Kyzyl-Suu. South of this is the foot of the
Fedchenko Glacier
The Fedchenko Glacier (russian: Ледник Федченко; tg, Пиряхи Федченко) is a large glacier in the Yazgulem Range, Pamir Mountains, of north-central Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, ...
.
The village of
Kara-Shybak is to the south, and
Kyzyl-Eshme is to the east.
Aurel Stein suggested that this was the location of the "
Stone Tower" that
Ptolemy in his famous treatise
''Geography'' wrote as the place where caravans from the Chinese and Roman Empires met and exchanged goods. Other scholars, however, disagree with this identification, though it remains one of four most probable sites for the Stone Tower.
Population
In the
Book of Han (2nd century AD), the population of this town, situated in the Alai Valley, is recorded at the time as 1,030.
Many
Pamir Kyrgyz have resettled from
Afghanistan to Daroot-Korgon in the 21st century, straining the village's resources.
References
Populated places in Osh Region
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