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Iskodar

place in Sughd, Tajikistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ12688236 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iskodar (Tajik: Искодар) is a village in Sughd Region, northern Tajikistan. It is part of the jamoat Dardar in the Ayni District. It has a population of 1,332 people as of 2017.

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The public source identifies “Iskodar” as place in Sughd, Tajikistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Iskodar, place and Sughd.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Iskodar, place and Sughd providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12688236. Authority coordinates are 39.453, 68.487. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iskodar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.