Olot (, ) is a city and seat of Olot District in Bukhara Region in Uzbekistan. Its population was 8,857 in 1989,Population census-1989 and 13,200 in 2016.
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". During the Middle Age, Alats played a prominent role in the history of southern Uzbekistan, Khorasan (Kalat), Persia and Afghanistan (Khalaj).
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