Edward Balfour noted a Muslim group known as Jughi in Bukhara, whose "women go unveiled, and the men are careless in their religious duties." The group was known for practicing medicine, fortune-telling, and horse-trading, and wandered between Bukhara, Samarkand, and Karakul.
Karaköl, a town in western Kyrgyzstan in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan
He lived in Samarkand, where he worked as a translator at the Institute of Karakul.
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Leaders sometimes wear a karakul hat, like President Hamid Karzai and former monarchs of Afghanistan.