samarkand in English

noun
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a city in eastern Uzbekistan; population 312,900 (est. 2007). One of the oldest cities in Asia, it was founded in the 3rd or 4th millennium bc . It was a prosperous center on the Silk Road and, in the 14th century, became the capital of Tamerlane's Mongol empire.

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1. In 1500 the Uzbek nomadic warriors took control of Samarkand.

2. And Samarkand was the converging point for the greatest of the caravans.

3. Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line Trolleybus system was closed down in 2010.

4. The city's inhabitants were massacred, except for the artisans, who were deported to Samarkand.

5. At the Maragha and Samarkand observatories, the Earth's rotation was discussed by Tusi (b.

6. Samarkand is the second-largest center for economy, science, and culture in Uzbekistan, after Tashkent.

7. Bukhara lies west of Samarkand and was once a center of learning renowned throughout the Islamic world

8. Samarkand suffered at least one other Mongol sack by Khan Baraq to get treasure he needed to pay an army.

9. Located between the buzzing with a city life Samarkand, and like-a-history-museum Khiva, Bukhara places itself somewhere in the middle

10. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Dimitry as head of the family.

11. After the fortress fell, Genghis supposedly reneged on his surrender terms and executed every soldier that had taken arms against him at Samarkand.

12. Bukhara, Uzbek Bukhoro or Buxoro, also spelled Buchara or Bokhara, city, south-central Uzbekistan, located about 140 miles (225 km) west of Samarkand

13. As ruler of the small principality of Fergana, Babur first tried to recover Samarkand, the former capital of the empire founded by his Mongol ancestor Timur

14. But Toktamish overreached himself when he tried to demand the cession of territories ruled by another Mongol chief, Timur (1336 140, whose capital was Samarkand.

15. The Karakhanid appanages were associated with four principal urban centers, Balasagun (then the capital of the Karakhanid state) in Zhetysu, Kashgar in Xinjiang, Uzgen in Fergana, and Samarkand in Transoxiana.

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17. Set between the slightly chaotic scenes of Samarkand and the labyrinthine alleyways of Khiva, Bukhara is a happy medium.An ocean of mosques and minarets, ornate craftsmanship and intricate tilework, turquoise domes and leafy plazas peppered between the modern sprawl of