Talas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Sources of Information
- Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii. Predprii︠a︡tie no. 19. Talas, plan-skhema, 1988.
- GEOnet, 9 May 2002(Talas, PPLA, 42⁰31ʹ20ʺN 72⁰14ʹ31ʺE, Kyrgyzstan; variants: Talass, Dmitriyevskoye, Dmitriyevka)
- Col. gaz. world, c1998(Talas, city, Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan, until 1937 called Dmitriyevskoye [no publs. in LC database])
Wikipedia description:
Talas is a town in northwestern Kyrgyzstan, located in the Talas river valley between two mountain ranges. Its area is 13 square kilometres (5.0 sq mi), and its resident population was 40,308 in 2021. It is the administrative headquarters of Talas Region. The town was founded by East Slavic settlers in 1877. To the south is the Besh-Tash (‘five rocks’) valley with the Besh-Tash National Park.
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