Talas

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by Sally K Church

The modern town of Talas is situated on the river Talas in a valley of the Tianshan mountains, some two hundred miles northeast of Tashkent.

- Christopher Dawson, ed., "The Journey of William of Rubruck",
in The Mongol Mission, p. 135, note 2.