Alat

Alat lies in the Karakul oasis southwest of Bukhara, on the low ground of the Zarafshan's dry delta. The river's lower waters were known here as the Karakul Darya, and cultivation spread among the depressions of the surrounding plain. The place name has been linked to the Arlat, an Uzbek tribal group represented in the oasis. Beyond its fields stretches the desert that separates Bukhara's cultivated land from the Oxus crossing near Amol.