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Capital of Sogdia, named after the legendary king Afrasiab of Turan, part of empires and epicenter of powerful kingdoms, the illustrious city of the Central Asiatic caravans was located at the focal point of the historical Silk Road. This is the place where Alexander the Great and Timur Leng (Tamerlane) ’meet’ only to be eclipsed by Ulugh Beg, Tamerlane’s grandson and greatest ruler of the 2nd millennium CE, who was not only the Great Emperor (Amir-e Kabir: Ulugh Beg) of the Gorkani (Timurid Empire) but also a leading mathematician, medical doctor, alchemist, astronomer and founder of the world’s greatest observatory of the 15th c. The art, the treasures and the grandeur of Samarqand’s monuments is not matched by any other city in the world. Περισσότερα: (Samarkand)
