Gulshara

Gulshara was a settlement in the country watered by the Chu, among a cluster of medieval sites on the river plain. Its remains date to the seventh through twelfth centuries, a time when fortified settlements and their surrounding lands formed a chain along the valley. The nearby sites of Zhunditobe and Bala-Aktobe belong to the same landscape, between the mountain foothills and the sandy country farther north.