Samarkand is one of those cities in the world about which legends are made. This is a city where antiquity itself got along with modernity. The city, which was rebuilt by order of the great Amir Timur, a descendant of Genghis Khan, and in 1370 declared the capital. This is probably the only good thing that this ruler has done in his entire brilliant life.
This city is rightly called his brainchild. This article is dedicated to the sights of Samarkand – this glorious city.
Samarkand is truly orientally colorful. Of course, not everything has survived to our times, but the main square of the city still rises before us in all its ancient splendor. Registan – the area of mosques. Two mosques were built in the time of Timur, and the third one was built when another no less famous man Mirzo Ulugbek ruled in Samarkand.
This person has already been told a lot. It is enough to mention his scientific activity and its main creation in Samarkand – the Observatory. In it, he, together with his students, studied the starry sky, compiled mathematical equations. After his murder, otherwise you will not call it, the Observatory was demolished to the ground by fanatics of Islam, but his pupil Ali Kushchi managed to bring out all the scientific works of the teacher before this event and then publish them. And so with his help in Europe, we learned about Mirzo Ulugbek.
And a few centuries later, in our time, the Observatory is to be restored again and thus pay tribute to the great mathematician and astronomer.
After Ulugbek, Samarkand was ruled by another great man, Zakhiriddin Bobur, for a very short time. He became famous for his great poem “Beaubur-name”, and later founded the state of the Great Moguls in India.
In Samarkand, an incredible number of monuments of the architectural heritage of the Middle Ages. One of the main attractions of the city: the mausoleum of Gur Emir – the tomb of the great warrior East Timur. The peoples of Central Asia still have the mystical beginning of the Great Patriotic War and the fact that just before the war, archeologists discovered the burial of Timur and released his fighting spirit.
The famous mausoleum complex of Shahi Zinda where the great and noble people of Samarkand are buried. The incomparable mausoleum of Bibi Khanum of Tamerlan’s beloved wife. And this is only a small fraction of what can be seen in ancient and eternally young Samarkand.
The Great Silk Road also passed through Samarkand. Trade went briskly, in the bazaars you could buy everything your heart desires. Speaking of products. In Samarkand, baked the most delicious cakes – patyry. And these breads can not stale for a long time. Therefore, tourists first of all buy them, because there is an opportunity to bring to the house.
Samarkand silk, Samarkand suzane, Samarkand apples … These apples are collected from the very gardens that were around the city and which Amir Timur ordered to plant. You can buy anything at the Samarkand bazaar, including the famous Mirzachul melons.
At the very beginning of the Soviet power in Turkestan, Samarkand was the capital. But soon Tashkent was declared the capital. But this city has not lost its value. Hundreds of tourists go to Samarkand to admire the pearl of the East. Now Samarkand is the capital of the culture of Islam.
