Alat District is a district

Districts of Uzbekistan

The provinces of Uzbekistan are divided into districts . The districts are listed by province, in the general direction from west to east. Names often transliterated from Russian....

 of Bukhara Province in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

. The capital lies at Alat

Alat, Uzbekistan

Alat, Uzbekistan is a town and seat of Alat District in Bukhara Province in Uzbekistan.The etymology of the name comes from the Turkic tribe Alat or Ala-at, also known in Arabic and Persian as Khalaj, and in Chinese as Boma, Hela, and Heloγ, all with a meaning "piebald horse"...

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The etymology of the name comes from the Turkic tribe Alat

Alat (tribe)

Block quoteAlat are one of the Turkic tribes known from Chinese annals, Bactrian inscriptions, and Arab and Persian medieval geographers as...

 or Ala-at

Alat (tribe)

Block quoteAlat are one of the Turkic tribes known from Chinese annals, Bactrian inscriptions, and Arab and Persian medieval geographers as...

, also known in Arabic and Persian as Khalaj

Khalaj

Khalaj may refer to:* Khalaj language* Khalaj people* Khalaj, Afghanistan, in Helmand Province* Khalaj, Armenia* Khalaj, Iran...

, and in Chinese as Boma, Hela, and Heloγ, all with a meaning "piebald

Piebald

A piebald or pied animal is one that has a spotting pattern of large unpigmented, usually white, areas of hair, feathers, or scales and normally pigmented patches, generally black. The colour of the animal's skin underneath its coat is also pigmented under the dark patches and unpigmented under...

 horse". During the Middle Age, Alats played a prominent role in the history of southern Uzbekistan, Khorasan

Greater Khorasan

Greater Khorasan or Ancient Khorasan is a historical region of Greater Iran mentioned in sources from Sassanid and Islamic eras which "frequently" had a denotation wider than current three provinces of Khorasan in Iran...

 (Kalat), Persia and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

(Khalaj).