© 2022, CAJOTAS, Central Asian Studies, All Rights Reserved 31 Copyright (c) 2022 Author (s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES Volume: 03 Issue: 10 | Oct 2022 ISSN: 2660-5317 https://cajotas.centralasianstudies.org The Significance of Ancient and Medieval Sources in Studying the Cultural Heritage of Jizzak Oasis Akchaev Farrukh Shavkatovich Head of the department of Distance Education in Teaching of Social Humanities, PhD in History, Docent, Jizzakh state pedagogical university Abdullaev Shahobiddin Norkuzi ugli Teacher of the department of Distance Education in Teaching of Social Humanities, Jizzakh state pedagogical university Received 9 th Aug 2022, Accepted 8 th Sep 2022, Online 10 th Oct 2022 Abstract: This article provides an analysis of ancient and medieval sources for the study of cultural heritage objects of the Jizzakh oasis, as well as the analysis of scientific research carried out on this topic. Keywords: Jizzakh oasis, Ustrushona, "transmitter space", cultural heritage objects, rustaq, rabad, castle, caravanserai, sacred site and shrine. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ As noted in historical sources, this cultural region, which was the part of Sugdiyona in ancient times and Ustrushona state in the middle ages, played the main political, socio-economic and cultural role in the history of Turan land, actively participated in all historical processes, and functioned as an integral and inseparable part of the region. It is known from many sources that Jizzakh Oasis, in particular the adjacent Mirzachol, was crossed by the caravan routes of the Great Silk Road system in different directions, and in the Middle Ages, these routes connected the "Huge trading port of Movarunnahr" - Samarkand - with Shosh, Khojand, Fergana, Ettisuv, Eastern Turkestan and China. It is stated in researches about this oasis, that the Jizzakh cultural region served as the "eastern gate" of strategic importance for the urban villages of the settled agricultural oasis in the Zarafshan river basin, and at the same time Jizzakh was a "transmitting space" for material, cultural and mutual cooperation of nomands of Shosh region, Fergana valley, territories along the Syrdarya river. 1 Despite of the facts mentioned above, the cultural heritage of the inhabitants of the Jizzakh oasis has not been studied as a separate systematic research topic. However, there are some written sources about the history of the country based on the results of archaeological excavations and scientific literatures. These sources can be studied in two parts. The first part describes the medieval history of Ustrushona agricultural oasis 2 , whilst the second part is written 1 Гулямов Я.Г. Кладбище Кулпи - Сар ИМКУ., Вып. 2, Т: «Фан», 1961, с. 92-93 2 Ибн Ҳавқал. Китоб сурат ал –ард (Араб тилидан таржима ва изоҳлар муаллифи Ш.С. Камолиддин). Тошент: