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Samarkand 1.Samarkand is Uzbekistan's second city Marriage procession of Alexander the Great and the Bactrian princess Roxana in  327 b.c.  2. Samarkand's history    Silk Road  2.1. Samarkand and the Silk Road   2.2. The Prophet and the Camel - Saddel   2.3. The Mongols   Timur  (known in Europe as Tamerlane) 2.3. The Timurids   The Uzbek leader  Muhammad Shaybani 2.4. The Forgotten Market Town   3.Monuments of Samarkand   3.1.Registan    Ulug Bek madrasa   (built 1417-20)  3.1.1.Ulug Bek Madrasa   Sher Dor Madrasa  (built 1619-35) 3.1.2.Sher Dor Madrasa   Tilla Kari madrasa   (built 1646-59) 3.1.3Tilla Kari Madrasa  Wedding procassion.Mural. (8th -9th centuries) 3.2.Museum of History, Culture and Art    Bibi Khanym Mosque  (built between 1399 and 1404) 3.3.Bibi Khanym Mosque    Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble   (11 - 20 th centuries) 3.4.Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble    The Ulug Bek Observatory   3.5.The Ulug Bek Observatory Shrine to Chupan - Ata (built around 1440 ) 3.6.Shrine to Chupan - Ata  Chaghanian envoys carryng gifts to the king of Samarkand. (8th -9th centuries) 3.7.Afrasiab Museum Gur Emir (built around 1404 ) 3.8.Gur Emir    3.8.Tamerlane's Ghost  Ishrat - Khona (built 1464) 3.9.Ishrat - Khona Khodja Abdi Darun  ( 'consists of a 12th - century mausoleum' ) 3.9.South Samarkand      [HOME]  [Uzbekistan]   [Bukhara] , [Samarkand] , [The tourist programs] [Write to us]

  
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