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| | Silk Road Seattle - Samarkand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Every town and settlement has a fortress...It is the most fruitful of all the countries of Allah; in it are the best trees and fruits, in every home are gardens, cisterns and flowing water... |
 | | Damaged during a rebellion which Alexander had to suppress, the city revived; in the third and second centuries BCE, it contained some very impressive buildings. |
 | | According to Juvayni, no admirer of the Mongols, Bukhara was one, although by the early 1330s the famous Arab traveler Ibn Battuta noted "at the present time its mosques, colleges and bazaars are in ruins, all but a few"--the result apparently of subsequent wars. |
| www.uwch.org /silkroad/cities/uz/samarkand/samarkand.html (2126 words) |
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