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3 unusual facts about Samarkand


Al-Walid I

Qutayba campaigned in most, if not all, years of this reign, conquering Samarkand, advancing into Farghana and sending envoys to China.

Ulmus × androssowii

The hybrid has been widely planted in southern and western areas of the former Soviet Union, notably along the streets of Samarkand.

Ulmus minor 'Umbraculifera'

In the latter, Litvinov described it from a cultivated tree in Samarkand.


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February 4Battle of Qarabagh in Arran (Caucasus): The Aq Qoyunlu under Uzun Hassan defeat the Timurids of Samarkand under Abu Sa'id Mirza resulting in the latter's capture and execution (by Yadgar Muhammad Mirza) and abandonment of Timurid claims on Persia.

Battle of Sar-e-Pul

As they moved forward with their right flank on the River Kohik (River Zarafshan) which runs from Samarkand towards Bukhara, they were met by the enemy drawn up ready to receive them.

Cairo Geniza

Cities mentioned range from Samarkand in Central Asia to Seville and Sijilmasa, Morocco to the west; from Aden north to Constantinople; Europe not only is represented by the Mediterranean port cities of Narbonne, Marseilles, Genoa and Venice, but even Kiev and Rouen are occasionally mentioned.

Gavriel Mullokandov

In 1930-32 Gavriel and Mihoel Mullokandovs together with other Bukharian activists organized a Bukharian Jewish theater in Samarkand.

Harry Mabry

Mabry and his wife lived and worked for up to six months at a time in cities including Arsenyev, Samarkand, Tbilisi and Tver, where he helped formerly government-run television stations cope with both their new-found independence and their sudden responsibility for everything from news content and presentation to advertising and general business practices.

Islam in Central Asia

The Hanafi school of thought of Sunnism is the most popular, with Shiism of Imami and Ismaili denominations predominating in the Pamir plateau and the western Tian Shan mountains (almost exclusively Ismailis), while boasting to a large minority population in the Zarafshan river valley, from Samarkand to Bukhara (almost exclusively Imamis).

Jews in Kyrgyzstan

In Manas, several central-Asian cities are described as having Jewish communities in them, among them Samarkand, Bukhara and Baghdad, though non of them have ever been inhabited by a majority of Kyrgyz people nor included in a Kyrgyz territory.

Joel Garten

He has performed in a number of cities in North America, as well as in the Registan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Johann Schiltberger

On Bayezid's overthrow at the Battle of Ankara (July 20, 1402), Schiltberger passed into the service of Bayezid's conqueror Timur: he now appears to have followed Timur to Samarkand, and perhaps also to Armenia and Georgia.

Jon Purnell

His British counterpart, who had been there more than a year before him, was Craig Murray, who writes about their encounters in his 2006 memoir Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror.

Juggi

Edward Balfour noted a Muslim group known as Jughi in Bukhara, whose "women go unveiled, and the men are careless in their religious duties." The group was known for practicing medicine, fortune-telling, and horse-trading, and wandered between Bukhara, Samarkand, and Karakul.

Kara-Khanid Khanate

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

Karhana

The Karahana controlled the vast areas south of the Tianshan Mountains and Hezhong (Samarkand) in Central Asia.

Katta-Kurgan

The town does not appear to be of any great antiquity, although after Alexander the Great's sack of Marakanda (Samarkand) the centre of cultural life in that part of the Zeravshan valley may briefly have shifted west to the region around Katta-Kurgan.

Khalil Sultan

Timur's appointed successor Pir Muhammad was quickly cast aside, and Khalil gained control of Samarkand.

Khorasan Province

Some of the main historical cities of Persia are located in the older Khorasan: Nishapur and Tus (now in Iran), Merv and Sanjan (now in Turkmenistan), Samarkand and Bukhara (both now in Uzbekistan), Herat and Balkh (now in Afghanistan), Khujand and Panjakent (now in Tajikistan).

Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre

In pop culture it is sung by Rasputine in Hugo Pratt's "The Golden House of Samarkand" Corto Maltese adventure, first issued in 1980 (French and Italian version).

Nawab Khwaja Abid Siddiqi

Khwaja Abid Siddiqi born in Adilabad near the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand.

Osrūshana

The Oshrusana lay to the south of the great, southernmost bend of the Syr Darya and extended roughly from Samarkand to Khujand.

Paul Portnyagin

He lived in Samarkand, where he worked as a translator at the Institute of Karakul.

River of the Golden Ibis

Jahoda lived in Tallahassee, Florida and authored The Other Florida, The Road to Samarkand, and the novels Annie and Delilah’s Mountain.

Samarkand clan

Interior Minister Zokir Almatov, from the Samarkand clan, also resigned in late 2005, citing poor health.

Samarkand Oblast

It was constituted from rayons of Samarkand (Samarkand and Panjakent uzeyds), Jizzakh (Jizzakh and Katta-Kurgan uzeyds) and Khojent (Khojent and Uratyube uzeyds).

Scouting in Uzbekistan

The Rabat Malik Scouts have groups in Samarkand and Nukus, for Scouts between the ages of 14-18 only.

Takhir Sabirov

His mother Mastona Sobir Zoda was the daughter of Duke Sobir-kaloni Tura-zoda of Samarkand (now part of the Samarqand Province, Uzbekistan), from the Duchy of Greater Khorasan, known as Tura-zoda, who were eminent members of Central Asia's Aristocracy.

Tashkent clan

Interior Minister Zokir Almatov, a member of the Samarkand clan, resigned in late 2005 saying his health prohibited him from continuing to serve.

Timurid dynasty

His dominions stretched from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the farthest limits of Ghazni and comprehended Kabul and Ghazni;Kunduz and Hissar; Samarkand and Bukhara; Farghana; Tashkent and Seiram)
1511 – 1512

Timurid relations with Europe

Clavijo's visit to Samarkand allowed him to report to the European audience on the news from Cathay (China), which few Europeans had been able to visit directly in the century that had passed since the travels of Marco Polo.

Trading Diaspora

As Gosch explains “premodern world system was to some extent an “archipelago of towns” in which urban centers in Europe (Bruges, Ghent, Genoa and Venice), the Middle East (Cairo, Aden, and Hormuz), and Asia (Samarkand, Calicut, Kanchipuram, Malacca, Quanzhou and Hangzhou) were connected to one another by trade and shared in a common culture of commerce.

Travels to the West of Qiu Chang Chun

From there they went to Lake Buyur, Hulunbuir, Ulan Bator, Arkhangai, Altay Mountains, Bishbulik, Dzungaria, Samarkand and arrived at Hindu Kush of Afghanistan in 1222 and presented himself before Genghis Khan.

Uzbek cuisine

Uzbekistan has 14 wineries, the oldest and most famous being the Khovrenko Winery in Samarkand (est. 1927).

Zakir Mammadov

Zakir Mammadov attended a variety of scientific sessions, conferences in Baku, Tashkent, Samarkand, Fergana and Dushanbe.


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