Samarkand
Sign in to saveSamarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021), it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
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Samarkand is an ancient city in southeastern Uzbekistan that has been continuously inhabited for centuries and now serves as the capital of the Samarkand Region with a population of about 551,700 people. As Central Asia's third-largest city, it holds historical significance as one of the region's oldest urban centers.
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- Clockwise from the top:Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zinda, Sherdar Madrasa in the Registan, Gur-e-Amir (Timur's Mausoleum)
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39 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Early history
- Hellenistic period
- Sasanian era
- Hephthalites and Turkic Khaganate era
- Early Islamic era
- Karakhanid (Ilek-Khanid) period (11th–12th centuries)
- Mongol period
- Timur's rule (1370–1405)
- Ulugh Beg's period (1409–1449)
- Uzbek period
- Second half of the 18th–19’s century Uzbek period
- Russian Empire period
- Soviet period
- Geography
- Climate
- People
- Language
- Religion
- Islam
- Shia Muslims
- Christianity
- Landmarks
- Silk Road Samarkand (Eternal city)
- Architecture
- Suburbs
- Transport
- Local
- Air transport
- Railway
- International relations
- In literature
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Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021), it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
Historically, Samarkand has long been one of the principal urban centers of Iranian (Persian-Tajik) civilization in Central Asia and played a major role in the cultural and commercial networks of the Silk Road. There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city dating from the late Paleolithic. Though there is no direct evidence of when Samarkand was founded, several theories propose that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between China, Persia and Europe, at times Samarkand was one of the largest cities in Central Asia, By the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, it was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy. The city was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, when it was known as Markanda, which was rendered in Greek as . The city was ruled by a succession of Iranian and Turkic rulers until it was conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1220.
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Archaeological sites in UzbekistanCities in UzbekistanFormer capitals of IranFormer national capitalsPopulated places along the Silk RoadPopulated places established in the 1st millennium BCPopulated places in Samarkand RegionSamarkandSamarkand OblastSasanian citiesSogdian citiesWorld Heritage Sites in Uzbekistan