Firabr

Firabr, also called Farab, stood on the eastern bank of the Oxus opposite Amol. The two towns guarded a crossing on the route between Merv and Bukhara, where travellers and caravans had to negotiate the broad river. Medieval geographers described Firabr as a dependency of Bukhara, with a congregational mosque near the gate facing that city. Beyond the river crossing lay the cultivated lands of the Bukhara oasis, separated from the Oxus by stretches of desert.