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Samarkand
The most visually magnificent city on the Silk Road and the capital of Timur’s 14th-century empire — Samarkand…
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Uzbekistan
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Samarkand
Timur's imperial capital, Samarkand pairs the tiled Registan square with the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum and Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, on a…
Building
Samarkand — The Registan and the Timurid Heritage
The Registan's three Timurid madrasas, built between 1420 and 1660, remain the architectural centrepiece of Samarkand's Silk Road…
Zone
Shah-i-Zinda
A medieval necropolis of approximately 20 mausoleums on a hillside in Samarkand, whose facades are covered in cobalt…
City
Shahrisabz (XIV–XV sec.): la città di Timur e il palazzo Ak-Saray (Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan)
Qui, nel cuore verde della Transoxiana, nacque Timur, e qui volle un palazzo che sfidasse il cielo: l'Ak-Saray,…
Zone
Shakhrisabz — Timur’s Birthplace and the Wonder of the Timurid World
In the Kashkadarya valley of southern Uzbekistan, approximately 80 km south of Samarkand, the city of Shakhrisabz was…
Ulugh Beg Observatory, Samarkand
The astronomer-king's buried sextant - a 40-metre arc in the rock that fixed the stars to the minute,…
Area
Varakhsha
An ancient Sogdian city 39 km northwest of Bukhara, founded in the 1st century BCE as capital of…
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