Historical cities of Uzbekistan

Historical cities of Uzbekistan

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Historical cities of Uzbekistan - everyone should visit here.
There are a huge number of travelers from different countries of the world who are fans of the historical cities of Uzbekistan.
The historical cities of Uzbekistan Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Termez, Shakhrisabz, Nukus, Kokand, Margilan, Fergana and Tashkent attract travelers from all corners of our fragile world with their rich history.
The historical cities of Uzbekistan amaze travelers with their history, which is permeated with majestic and tragic events.
The historical cities of Uzbekistan have gone a glorious way from small villages to the largest and most beautiful cities in Central Asia.
Bukhara is a city of scientists and pearl of the Silk Road.
Bukhara has been the centre of merchants, travellers, healers, intellectuals and religious scholars of its time since its founding over 2500 years ago. "Bukharo-i-Sharif", "Noble", "Holy" - are just some of the many epithets that granted the old city. Bukhara is one of the few cities that continuously developed in one place. Scientists and students from all over the Muslim world also came to Bukhara to study and teach.
Khiva - city of ancient Khorezm, a pearl of oriental architecture
The oldest city of the Khorezm state. The Khiva City of Sima. Khiva is the capital of algebra. Open-air museum. All these beautiful words about Khiva - the great city, beckoning with its Ichan-Kala fortress, the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Central Asia and the most unique and atmospheric place in Uzbekistan. It was practically not subjected to reconstruction and has retained its original centuries-old appearance to this day.
Khiva was a prosperous city on the Silk Road, with many caravanserais where tired merchants went to rest before entering the central city of Khorezm - Kunya-Urgench, now located on the territory of Turkmenistan, on the border with Uzbekistan, just 150 km from Khiva.
According to legend, Khiva got its name from the eldest son of Noah, Sim, who, having drunk water from a well, exclaimed: "Hey, wak, hey, wak!", Which means "how good"! And since then, the city began to be called Khiva.
Khiva was destroyed more than once by raids; he saw the phalanxes of Macedon, felt the clatter of the hooves of the Arab cavalry, saw the invasions of Genghis Khan and the procession of Tamerlane.
Khiva is the birthplace of the famous mathematician Al-Khorezm; he is called the "grandfather of computer science". A well-known historian of science called him "the greatest mathematician of his time and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time".
Khiva was also a key city on the Silk Road, such as Bukhara, Vabkent, Gijduvan, Shakhrisabz, Samarkand, Tashkent, Termez and other cities of the Ferghana Valley.
Samarkand is a city of legends & capital of Timur's empire.
Samarkand (the capital of Sogd) is the heart of the Great Silk Road, the city of legends, the crossroads of cultures, the arena of world events, the pearl of the Islamic world, the capital of the Timurid Empire.
"Rome of the East", "City of Saints", "Eden of the East", and other epithets, historians, poets, thinkers and various outstanding personalities of all times honoured the fabulous miracle city of Samarkand.
Samarkand, a city in the east-central part of Uzbekistan and more than 2750 years old, is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, the same age as Rome and Athens.
Samarkand was a model of genuine oriental hospitality; several nationalities easily coexisted in it. In ancient history, Samarkand was known as the capital of the old state of Sogdiana, described as early as the 5th century. BC e. in the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Avesta.
Samarkand noted under the name of Marakanda in the writings of Roman and Greek historians and biographers about Alexander the Great.
Great Silk Road passed through incredible Samarkand in the east to China, west to Persia, and south to fabulous India.
At one time, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Amir Temur (Tamerlane), famous travellers Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta inscribed their names in the city's history.
Samarkand has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a Crossroads of Cultures since 2001.
Tashkent - 2200 years old, it is still young and beautiful
"Velvet hot dust up to the ankles, red-hot duvals in the sun with carved wooden gates and the biggest and brightest stars ...-residents speak these words of Tashkent about their hometown. He has been inspiring the hearts and minds of millions of people connected with him, his culture and history for more than two thousand years. In such a place, you want to visit again and again, discovering new corners and facts each time.
Tashkent is a more than 2200 years old city, is still young, beautiful and full of energy, and friendly people of different nations live there.
Tashkent locates in the northeastern part of the republic, on a plain in the valley of the Chirchik River; throughout its history, it has survived the invasions of the Huns, Arabs, Mongols, Kalmyks and other nomads.
Tashkent contrasts with the old eastern with the recent Soviet and European today with its wide streets, bazaars, parks, fountains, buildings.
Today's Tashkent is a locomotive in everything; it is rapidly developing, ahead of the capitals of other fraternal countries of Central Asia.
Shakhrisabz - located on the Silk Road in southern Uzbekistan
If you visit Shakhrisabz in clear cloudless weather, it may seem that Shakhrisabz smoothly flows into the sky with the tops of its palaces and mausoleums. Shakhrisabz has been on the UNESCO heritage list since 2000, and it keeps the most important architectural monuments and living evidence of its biography.
Nukus - capital of the best collections of Soviet art in the world Most of the interesting places in Uzbekistan calculate their age in millennia, but not Nukus. This is one of the cities where there are no monuments from the reign of the Arabs, the Timurids. It cannot be said about him that this is the charm of the East and the pearl of the Silk Road. No, this city is by no means famous for this, but there is something in it that will make you reach out to it - shackled among the deserts, embraced by lifeless expanses, it nevertheless attracts hundreds of tourists every year. Let's walk around it and see what's interesting there.
Termez is the center of archaeological excavations. The sun... It seems that in this place it descends closer to the earth... Hot rays illuminate the golden sand, and above all these there is a heavenly tent of such a deep blue color that it is impossible to look away... Termez is an amazing place, a ghost town, a traveler city... Today our journey has taken us to the confluence of the Sukhardarya and the Amurdarya, to the southernmost and hottest part of Uzbekistan.
The historical cities of Uzbekistan Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva are among the ten ancient cities of the CIS.
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