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Samarkand or Samarqand (/ ˈ s æ m ər k æ n d / SAM-ər-kand; Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, IPA: [samarˈqand,-ant]) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia.
The Afrasiab murals, also called the Paintings of the Ambassadors, is a rare example of Sogdian art.It was discovered in 1965 when the local authorities decided to construct a road in the middle of Afrāsiāb mound, the old site of pre-Mongol Samarkand.
The Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Uzbek: Bibixonim masjidi; Persian: مسجد بی بی خانم; also variously spelled as Khanum, Khanom, Hanum, Hanim) is one of the most important monuments of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Returning to Samarkand in the fall of 1404, Timur ordered for his grandson [clarification needed] the building of a mausoleum, which became the family tomb of Gur-e-Amir. [6] The mausoleum was built in the southeastern part of medieval Samarkand, near the madrasa and khanqah of Muhammad Sultan. Timur died during a campaign in China.
The Sher-Dor Madrasa (Uzbek:Sherdor madrasasi, meaning “with lions”) is a 17th-century madrasa (Islamic school) in the historic center of Samarkand, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Uzbekistan. [1] Together with the Ulug Begue and Tillakori madrassas, it forms the monumental ensemble of Registan, the ancient heart of the city. [2]
Afrasiyab (Uzbek: Afrosiyob),(Persian: افراسياب afrāsiyāb) is an ancient site in Northern Samarkand, present day Uzbekistan, that was occupied from c. 500 BC to 1220 AD prior to the Mongol invasion in the 13th century (see Siege of Samarkand (1220)). [1] The oldest layers date from the middle of the first millennium BC. [1]
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Gur-i Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand, which contains the tomb of Timur (d. 1405), the founder of the Timurid Empire. Timurid architecture was an important stage in the architectural history of Iran and Central Asia during the late 14th and 15th centuries.