Kurush ( tg, Куруш, formerly: ''Kurkat'') is a village and
jamoat in north-western
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
. It is identified with the ancient town
Cyropolis
Cyropolis (Old Persian: ; Ancient Greek: ( and , literally "the city of Cyrus") was an ancient city founded by Cyrus the Great to mark the northeastern border of his Achaemenid Empire.
Location
The actual location of this ancient city is cur ...
that was founded by the
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
king
Cyrus the Great. It is located in
Spitamen District tg, Ноҳияи Спитамен
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in
Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 30,469 (2019).
[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 3 October 2020
References
Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan
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