Others, like a gnarled spice seller in Samarkand's bustling bazaar shrug it all off.
By contrast, the splendid cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva are monuments to the Uzbeks' Islamic civilisation.
Mr Barendse's abundant use of Dutch archives enables him to trace individual peddlers from Samarkand to Sinkiang and Circassia.
My grandmother's parents, both from European countries, met as refugees in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
The Shah-i-Zinda, a necropolis in Samarkand, was one of Islam's holiest places.
Samarkand est un carrefour et un creuset des cultures du monde.
Mr Marozzi has traced in person much of Temur's relentless campaign trail, and he elegiacally shows us how far Samarkand and Bukhara, once the most glorious cities in Asia, have descended.
The Shah's nervous mullahs had warned him against stirring the spirit of Timur and sure enough a spate of tragedies ensued until the stone was returned to Samarkand, albeit broken in half.
He was a lavish patron of the arts and he was a tremendous builder, as the splendours of his capital, Samarkand, attest though the finest of that city's monuments were built by his descendants.
True, his methods were not always the most refined: when he returned to Samarkand after a hard few years slaughtering enemies, he felt that the portal of his new mosque was insufficiently lofty.
The International Conference on TV Broadcasting in Uzbekistan was organized on 23 and 24 October in Samarkand by the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis (Uzbek Parliament), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the Uzbek National Association of Electronic Media and National TV and Radio Company, with support from UNESCO.
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