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Organci

Ancient name
Khwarazm
Modern name
Konye-Urgench
Modern country
Turkmenistan
Organci (now Konye-Urgench, Turkmenistan, not the more recently-founded Urgench in Uzbekistan) was a major Silk Road caravanserai on the south side of the Amu Darya River in the region east of the Caspian Sea, with connections to many other Silk Road cities such as Baku, Tauris, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, and points east. It appears in only 2 relatively late Sfera manuscripts.
Coordinates
42.33, 59.15

The toponym Organci appears in La Sfera in the following places:

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Map of the location P152

Variant spellings of Organci in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
orghana Luc2, Med1
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Organci.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/organci/.