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	Samarkand - Registan
		The Registan was the heart of the ancient Samarkand.
		The word Registan means "a sandy place." It existed long before the Mongol invasion as a city trade and artisan square.
		Under Tamerlane's rule the Registan became the city's square and during the time of Ulugbek it was adorned with majestic buildings.
	www.samarkand-hotels.com /registan.htm (287 words)

	"After The Soviet Union" Sample Page
		A former market, the Registan was home to three huge tiled buildings on three sides of the square.
		Under the floodlights, the Registan had an almost unearthly quality that managed to look both massive and ethereal at once.
		The massive ribbed domes, the turquoise and dark blues tiles and soaring arches were intensely exotic.
	www.gis.net /~erictrach/myuz3.htm (1303 words)

	GORP - Phoenix Cities of Central Asia - Architecture of Samarkand, I
		The Registan, which the 19th-century British traveler George Curzon called "the noblest public square in the world," is the main square of the old city, and the most spectacular architectural complex still standing in Central Asia.
		From this huge square in the heart of the city, which was planned by Timur as a grand covered bazaar, six main roads led out to six city gates, and thence to the rest of the known world: China, India, Russia, and Persia and the Mediterranean.
		However, over the course of the centuries, about nine feet of soil had accumulated on the Registan and around the older madrassah, and this means that the proportions of the younger building are somewhat different from those of the older.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/asia/uzbekistan/cities4.htm (1136 words)

	Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Madrasa of Ulugh Beg in Samarqand (1417-20): standing in front of the Registan square, this four-iwan madrasa has four domed chambers on the corners, possibly functioning as mausolea, and a vaulted prayer hall on the iwan axis.
		The Registan square was defined later by the addition of two other madrasas to form a locus of urban life.
		General view of the Registan Square with the Madrasa of Ulugh Beg to the left, the Shirdor Madrasa on the right (1635-36) and the Tilakari Madrasa (1660) in the center.
	web.mit.edu /4.614/www/madrasaulugh.html (112 words)

	InterAction.org \| Media
		The largest concentration of Kuchis is probably in the Registan, the sandy desert that covers a big area in southern Afghanistan.
		Two groups of roughly equal numbers are in the camps: Kuchis from Registan and northern Kuchis who were settled in northwestern Afghanistan one hundred years ago but were recently expelled by their Uzbek and Tajik neighbors.
		A few of the northerners may be able to return home in the future, but the experts agree that an early return to nomadic grazing in the Registan is impossible, although the desert still supports grazing by a few animals.
	www.interaction.org /newswire/detail.php?id=3077 (970 words)

	Registan, Samarkand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Built by the grandson of Timur, Ulugh-Beg, Registan (literally, Place of Sand) in Samarkand, is the first of its kind in Islamic urban planning.
		A contemporary writer, Babur, of India (one of Timur's conquered lands), wrote in 1450 that Registan 'possessed pavements made in all sorts of mosaic, and hot public baths unlike any other known.
		Registan, Samarkand, 1415 CE, Glazed Tile and Brick
	www.glendale.edu /~rkibler/registan.html (128 words)

	City of Samarkand
		The ensemble of three madrasahs is a unique example of town building art a remarkable pattern of the architectural planning of the main town square.
		During the tourist season, the performance of Light and Music is played each evening on the Registan Square and tells about the history of the city.
		The show can be enjoyed from the main street in front of Registan without going inside and paying the entrance fee.
	www.samarkand.info /html/city.html (810 words)

	Registan, Bukhara
		To the west from Ark, still before Arab period was built Registan Square, in the old days it was public sathing part.
		From 16-century trade shops Rasta and Taki-Tirgaron were at the entrance to Registan, where armourers sold their production.
		The only Registan monument, reached our times, is Bolo-khauz of 18 century.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/bukhara/registan.htm (174 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Tens of thousands flee drought-stricken region in Afghanistan
		KABUL, May 10 (AFP) - The entire population of the Registan desert in southern Afghanistan has fled as a drought, described as the worst in 30 years, hit the war-ravaged country, a UN report said Wednesday.
		But it expressed concern over possible scarcity of food and fodder all over Afghanistan as a moderate drought was affecting much of the rest of the country.
		The UN said owners of livestock, especially nomads and farmers dependent on rainfall, were seriously affected by the drought.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/37d5b39436a07e5bc12568db0035d11d (530 words)

	thinking-east.net :: View topic - Opinion: Thinking-East and the Murray controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In an interview, Nathan explained his motives for starting a news web-log dedicated solely to Central Asia: "[One of the] reasons I started is because of the dismal quality of news reporting coming out of Western journalists who work in the region."
		Though their founders come from very different political camps, Thinking-East and The Registan have very similar editorial and philosophical aims: to publish thoughtful correspondence and analyses of overlooked ideas and overlooked peoples in overlooked regions, and to empower young regional voices.
		Besides, most of the coverage of The Registan is a daily business, pointing the readers to interesting stories and developments in the region.
	forum.thinking-east.net /viewtopic.php?p=18 (1409 words)

	UzbekWorld: Your Guide to Uzbekistan - Sights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Registan can be truly regarded as one of the most spectacular architectural ensembles of Central Asia, which is situated in the heart of Samarkand city.
		The word "Registan" descends from a Persian origin meaning "sandy place".
		An enormous parochial mosque faces north east of Registan.
	www.uzbekworld.com /intersaraton/sights_samarkand.html (408 words)

	Registan Square, Samarkand
		During centuries Registan Square was the center of Samarkand.
		Years passed, the river dried out and left lots of sank there, that was the first place where the first Madrassah was built in the beginning of the 15th century and named Registan square.
		As the Madrassah was first built, all the holidays, parades, festivals and Sunday bazaars took place.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/samarkand/registan.htm (834 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Registan Dunes
		In southern Afghanistan, shifting sand dunes flow across the huge, sandy desert known as the Registan.
		When the winds constantly blow from the same direction over relatively flat terrain with a small to moderate amount of sand, the sand will pile up in crescent-moon shaped dunes, whose thin tips point in the direction of the wind flow.
		This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image captured on August 20, 2000, shows an area of barchan dunes in the northern Registan Desert, just south of the Afghan city of Kandahar.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16442 (233 words)

	Protests in Mongolia at Registan.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Registan seems to be a clearinghouse for protest information, so I just thought I\’d let you know, in case you\’d like to link to me.
		PS: I\’ve been reading Registan in order to keep abreast of Central Asia developments and you guys are doing a really great job.
		PPS: I almost met you at the GV conference in London, which I attended on behalf of DemoBlog, but you didn\’t come.
	www.registan.net /?p=6166 (1191 words)

	Uzbekistan - Photo Essay - ADB.org
		Unchanged in layout since the Middle Ages, Samarkand and its splendors — including the Registan, an assembly of learning institutions, the mausoleum of Tamerlane and the mosque of Bibi-Khanym, Tamerlane’s wife, continue to exert a powerful lure.
		The Registan, an ensemble of majestic madrasas, is still the city's heart today.
		Waiting for tourists at the Sher Dor (Lion) madrasa at the Registan.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Photos/UZB/ADB-Assisted-Railway (293 words)

	Registan
		It is worth coming all this way for the Registan, the most spectacular architectural ensemble in Central Asia and the center of Samarkand since the Mongol invasion.
		When you see the three great madrasas for the first time, rising petrol blue through the petrol fumes, it's hard not to feel you have arrived somewhere significant.
		Registan (pronounced with a hard 'g') means 'place of sand' - it was strewn on the ground
	members.tripod.com /~Commandov/sam_monum.htm (196 words)

	TrekEarth \| sandy place, AKA Registan Photo
		"Registan" means "sandy place" as the first Madressah was build in the 15th century at a spot where a river dried out.
		Eventually all three Madressahs forming the Registan Square were completed in the 17th century, and the square became the centre of Samarkand life, with parades, festivals and bazaars taking place here.
		Taking photo of Registan was my dream for many years.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/Asia/Uzbekistan/photo108292.htm (254 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - Registan (Steam merchant)
		On 13 Sep, 1940, the steam merchant Registan (5886 tons) of F.C. Strick & Co Ltd, London was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and converted to the ocean boarding vessel (OBV) HMS Registan (F 106).
		The badly damaged ship was towed to Falmouth by the British tug Goliath, where she was rebuilt to a merchant and was returned to the owner in November 1941.
		At 01.12 hours on 29 Sep, 1942, the unescorted Registan (Master Charles Spencer Bartlett) was torpedoed and sunk by U-332 about 140 miles east of Barbados.
	uboat.net /allies/merchants/2223.html (253 words)

	Refugees International: Articles: Kuchi Nomads: Displaced and Destitute in Afghanistan
		The Afghan government and UNHCR provide opportunities for Kuchis to return to their former homes in northern Afghanistan when it is safe for them to do so.
		The Afghan government and UNHCR facilitate the return and provide transitional support to herders who choose to resume their nomadic existence if and when rains return to the Registan.
		The Afghan and Pakistan governments, aid agencies, and NGOs initiate training and micro-finance programs in refugee and displaced person camps to prepare Kuchis for alternative livelihoods to nomadic grazing.
	www.refintl.org /content/article/detail/3017 (1032 words)

	InfoHub - View Single Post - Samarkand-The Capital of the World
		The Registan ensemble at the heart of Samarkand, restored to its original splendor, ranks first in Central Asia and among the greatest of all the grandiose and magnificent works of the Islamic world.
		Like the Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, repeated visits are necessary to grasp the depth of detail as changing light explores multiple shades of mosaic radiance.
		“The skilled acrobat of thought climbing the rope of imagination will never reach the summits of its forbidden minarets.” Such is the inscription extolling the Registan’s second madrassah, built by governor Yalangtush between 1619 and 1636.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showpost.php?p=1599&postcount=4 (455 words)

	Mosaic Tile Panel from Registan, Samarkand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is a detail of a mosaic tile panel from the entrance to the Madrasa at Registan, Samarkand, and shows the intricate interlocking of these glazed tile pieces.
		Each piece composing the panel was cut individually to fit into this exacting pattern.
		This sunburst medallion from the entrance to the Madrasa exactly duplicates in tile mosaic a form painted in the frontispiece to the Sultan's Anthology of 1410.
	www.glendale.edu /ceramics/registanmosaic.html (111 words)

	Samarkand Nightlife - Reviews, Tips, Photos - VirtualTourist.com
		I've seen plenty of sound and light shows and this was probably the worse, disappointing when it is in such an amazing place.
		They light the mosques and madrassas and a recorded voice tells you about the story of the place back when it was a stop in the Silk Road.
		When I approached the Registan there were maybe 20 children playing soccer (many of whom came to chat when they saw my camera), women chatting, men laughing.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Uzbekistan/Samarkand-1462812/Nightlife-Samarkand-BR-1.html (382 words)

	Uzbekistan Tourist Attraction Pictures
		Monument to the multicultural family of flsmith who adopted WW II refuge children in Tashkent.
		Visitors lined up for a photo in front of Registan mosque in Samarkand.
		Mosaic showing tiger hunting deer on Shir Dor Madrasah at Registan mosque in Samarkand.
	www.planetware.com /photo-list/uzbekistan-uzb.htm (236 words)

	Heart Of The Silk Road: Samarkand I
		After settling down and a quick bath, we visited the renowned Registan (As grand as it sounds, it was built by Timur with the craftsmen of the Eurasian lands he conquered.
		Definitely the most beautiful monument in Uzbekistan.) and the Bazaar (Very Middle Eastern in atmosphere but nothing in scale when compared with those in Istanbul and Cairo.).
		Apparently, it has been in restoration for the past decade or so, as an Italian I met later told me. He had been here in the 1980's when this was still the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
	weecheng.com /silk/uz-sam/sam1.htm (679 words)

	Uzbekistan in images: 2 - Samarkand / Samarqand - Travel-Images.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Samarkand: Registan Square - Shir Dor madrasa - dome
		Samarkand: Registan Square - Shir Dor madrasa - minaret
		Samarkand: Registan Square - Shir Dor madrasa - courtyard
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/uzbekistan2.html (140 words)

	>Afghan Hound Database Breed Info Exchange The Kalagh Tazi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With thanks to Danuta Spaeth-Tomaszewska, "Registan Kennels" (Switzerland) and Ortrud W Roemer-Horn (Germany).
		Hamsaya, Hotaki, Goulbahar, all of Registan, whelped January 1997
		Lazir Registan (b), born in 1997 pictured at 2-1/2 yrs of age
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/s_tillotson/kalagh3.htm (76 words)

	ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » Support Registan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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		"Support Registan," by Chirol, Coming Anarchy, 2 July 2005, www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/07/02/support-registan/.
		Disturbing news from Registan, via Chirol, in its entirety Webmaster extraordinaire and close friend of ComingAnar…
	www.cominganarchy.com /archives/2005/07/02/support-registan (288 words)

	Day 24: Samarkand
		One of the interior portals of the Ulugh Beg Madrassah in the Registan
		The portal of Tillya-Kari, at the center of the Registan
		The Ulugh Beg Madrassah occupies the left side of the Registan complex
	theory.stanford.edu /~iliano/pictures/2002/asiaTrip/03-25-samarkand (230 words)

	tdaxp : Scientology v. Registan
		"Support Registan," by Chirol, Coming Anarchy, 2 July 2005, http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/07/02/support-...
		Disturbing news from Registan, via Chirol, in its entirety
		Webmaster extraordinaire and close friend of ComingAnarchy, Nathan of Registan.met, needs your help.
	www.tdaxp.com /archive/2005/07/05/scientology-v-registan.html (1241 words)

	Trip to Samarkand - photos of events in Uzbekistan on Worldisround
		Registan Square is the main tourist shopping area in Samarkand.
		We climbed this one...of course you have to bribe a policeman to do it....
		All the buildings at registan are like this...so amazing!!
	www.worldisround.com /articles/154380 (210 words)

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