The Pearls of Uzbekistan: Bukhara, Samarkand, Khiva |
Contents
BUKHARA | 13 |
The Mausoleum of the Samanids | 18 |
The Miri Arab Madrasa | 25 |
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Abdullah Afrasiab Aini Sadriddin Allah Kuli Khan amir Amu Darya ancient arcaded architectural Ármin Vámbéry artistic Asian bastions beautiful Bibi Khanum mosque blue brick building built Bukhara Buyan caravanserai carved wooden castle cells Central Asia century B.C. ceramic colour columns courtyard cupola decoration dervishes desert dynasty empire erected façade famous fourteenth century gallery gate geometric glazed tiles ground-plan Gur-i hanaka Ibn Battuta Ichan-Kale Ishrat-Khane Islam Khoja ivan Kalyan mosque Karakhanid Khan's Khiva Khoja Khwarizm Khwarizmian Kushan main entrance marble master mausoleum mazar meters minaret Mir-i Arab monuments mosaic Muhammad Muslim necropolis Nineteenth century oriental ornamentation Pahlawan Muhammad mausoleum Persian pishtak portal Rigistan Square ruler Russian Samanids Samarkand Shah-i Zinde Shir Dar madrasa sixteenth century Sogdian stalactite ornamentation Tash-Kholi palace tenth century Tillya Kari Timur's Timurid tomb tower town towngate tradition Ulugh beg Ulugh beg madrasa Urgench Uzbek Uzbekistan walls wooden pillars Ташкент