Olot, Uzbekistan
Olot is a town and seat of Olot District in Bukhara Region in Uzbekistan. The town population in 1989 was 8857.
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, Persia and Afghanistan.
