Bukhara Khiva Samarkand Tashkent Tours
One of the oldest cities all over the world probably founded over four thousand years. It was one of the significant trading cities of the Silk Road, the crossroad of the world’s cultures.
Many times it flourished and fell into decay. Alexander the Great captured the city in 329 BC, the Mongols led by Genghis Khan devastated Samarkand in 13th century and gained the golden age under Tamerlane in the next century, who made it the capital of his empire, extended from China to Bosporus, but didn’t realized his dream to make it the world’s cultures.
Many times it flourished and fell into decay. Alexander the Great captured the city in 329 BC, the Mongols led by Genghis Khan devastated Samarkand in 13th century and gained the golden age under Tamerlane in the next century, who made it the capital of his empire, extended from China to Bosporus, but didn’t realized his dream to make it the world’s capital…
Tamerlane’s grandson Ulugh Beg created a scientific school, built observatory.
The most magnificent sight is the vast square of Registan, the central square of the old city, surrounded by narrow medieval side-streets, towering blue tiled domes of mosques.
Other fascinating sights of Samarkand are Bibi-Khanum Mosque, named for the wife of Tamerlane, Shah-i-Zinda, a big medieval necropolis, and the Gur-Emir ensemble.
Nowadays Samarkand is the second largest city in the Republic of Uzbekistan with half million inhabitants.
The historic center of Samarkand is one of the World Heritage Sites announced by UNESCO.
