Farab (Otrar)

Farab (later Otrar), a district on the middle Syr Darya in present-day southern Kazakhstan in the region of Transoxiana, was a town on the trade routes. It is the home region of the philosopher al-Farabi (d. 950), the 'Second Teacher' after Aristotle, who is reported to have been born in the village of Wasij in the Farab district.