Afshana, where Avicenna was born, is located in an area that is part of present-day Uzbekistan.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent high-quality sources including Britannica, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Wikipedia, and Wikidata's geographic coordinates, all converging without contradiction.
Sources
- El médico (2013): Medicina en la Edad Media - SciELO España (scielo.isciii.es)
- https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(20)30076-8/fulltext (mayoclinicproceedings.org)
- https://iep.utm.edu/avicenna-ibn-sina/ (iep.utm.edu)
- https://ask.metafilter.com/141678/Looking-for-Afshona (ask.metafilter.com)