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JIZAKH, a town of Russian Central Asia, in the province of Samarkand, on the Transcaspian railway, 71 M. N.E. of the city of Samarkand. Pop. (1897), 16,041. As a fortified post of Bokhara it was captured by the Russians in 1866.