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Architectural Building Attractions In Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan , officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a landlocked country—the only doubly landlocked one —in Central Asia and one of the only two in the world. The sovereign state is a secular, unitary constitutional republic, comprising 12 provinces, one autonomous republic, and a capital city. Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. What is now Uzbekistan was in ancient times part of the Iranian-speaking region of Transoxiana. The first recorded settlers were Eastern Iranian nomads, k...
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Architectural Building Attractions In Uzbekistan

  • 2. Ismail Samanid Mausoleum Bukhara
    Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā'īl ibn Aḥmad , better simply known as Isma'il ibn Ahmad , and also known as Ismail Samani , was the Samanid emir of Transoxiana and Khorasan . His reign saw the emergence of the Samanids as a powerful force. He was the son of Ahmad ibn Asad and a descendant of Saman Khuda, the eponymous ancestor of the Samanid dynasty who renounced Zoroastrianism and embraced Islam.
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  • 3. Chor-Minor Bukhara
    Chor Minor , alternatively known as the Madrasah of Khalif Niyaz-kul, is a historic mosque in the historic city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It is located in a lane northeast of the Lyab-i Hauz complex. It is protected as a cultural heritage monument, and also it is a part of the World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Bukhara. In Persian, the name of the monument means Four minarets, and the building indeed has four towers.
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  • 4. Gur Emir Mausoleum Samarkand
    The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir , is a mausoleum of the Asian conqueror Timur in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It occupies an important place in the history of Persian-Mongolian Architecture as the precursor and model for later great Mughal architecture tombs, including Gardens of Babur in Kabul, Humayun's Tomb in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra, built by Timur's Persianised descendants, the ruling Mughal dynasty of North India. It has been heavily restored.
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  • 9. Ulugbek Madrasah Samarkand
    Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh , better known as Ulugh Beg Uzbekistan), was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His commonly known name is not truly a personal name, but rather a moniker, which can be loosely translated as Great Ruler and is the Turkic equivalent of Timur's Perso-Arabic title Amīr-e Kabīr. His real name was Mīrzā Mohammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh. Ulugh Beg was also notable for his work in astronomy-related mathematics, such as trigonometry and spherical geometry. He built the great Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand between 1424 and 1429. It was considered by scholars to have been one of the finest observatories in the Islamic world at the time and the largest in Central Asia. He built the Ulugh Beg Madrasah in Samarkand and Bu...
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  • 11. Saint Daniel's Tomb Samarkand
    Walī is an Arabic word whose literal meanings include custodian, protector, helper, and friend. In the vernacular, it is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate an Islamic saint, otherwise referred to by the more literal friend of God. In the traditional Islamic understanding of saints, the saint is portrayed as someone marked by [special] divine favor ... [and] holiness, and who is specifically chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work miracles. The doctrine of saints was articulated by Islamic scholars very early on in Muslim history, and particular verses of the Quran and certain hadith were interpreted by early Muslim thinkers as documentary evidence of the existence of saints. Graves of saints around the Muslim world became centers of pilgrimage ...
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  • 14. Abulkasym Madrassah Tashkent
    The Abulkasym Madrassah is a historically significant building located in Tashkent, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan. The building was the location of the signing of a peace treaty in 1865 following the Russian capture of Tashkent.
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