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	Islamic Silver Coins :: Samarqand
		As governor of Samarqand under his father Shah Rukh, he made the city a center of scholarship and patronage of Islamic culture.
		He was himself known as a poet, historian, scholar of the Qur'an, and highly gifted astronomer.
		On the obverse of this coin, issued in Samarqand in the last year of his rule, is the Muslim profession of faith.
	www.islamicart.com /main/coins/s_samarqand.html (194 words)

	Samarqand Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		UZ-SA Samarqand Province (Samarkand Province) (Uzbek: Samarqand viloyati/ Самарқанд вилояти) is an administration division, or viloyati of Uzbekistan located in the center of the country in the basin of Zarafshan River.
		The capital is Samarqand (pop est 368,000 inhabitants).
		Samarqand Province also has significant natural resources, including construction materials such as marble, granite, limestone, carbonate, and chalk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samarqand_Province (249 words)

	Samarqand
		Samarqand (Samarkand) is the major cultural and industrial centre of Tajik people.
		Later known as Maracanda, the city was the capital of Sogdiana, an ancient Tajik (Iranian) province, and was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC.
		In particular, the territory of Uzbekistan was drawn to include the two main Tajik cultural centers, Bukhara and Samarqand, as well as parts of the Fergana Valley to which other ethnic groups could lay claim.
	www.geocities.com /tajikland/Samarqand.html (369 words)

	Iranica.com - SAMARQAND
		At Samarqand, the major source of evidence for this period is the aristocratic residence which stood just inside Wall III, which constituted the southern limit of the fortified town between the 6th and 8th centuries C.E. The famous wall paintings which were commissioned for a reception hall ca.
		It is conjectured that the then representative of the local dynasty, residing outside Samarqand and still in charge of tax collection, had agreed to pay part of it in kind to contribute to the building of the governor's palace.
		After the final conquest of Timurid Samarqand by MohÂammad ˆayb@ani (in 1500), the function of capital of Transoxania was transfered to Bukhara (q.v.).
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Samarqand.html (2662 words)

	The Sheila Variations: Uzbekistan - Part II - Samarqand and Tamerlane
		In 712 A.D., Samarqand (Maraconda) was conquered by the Arabs.
		Samarqand is intensely blue; it is the color of sky and water.
		Samarqand is inspired, abstract, lofty, and beautiful; it is a city of concentration and reflection; it is a musical note and a painting; it is turned toward the stars.
	www.sheilaomalley.com /archives/000647.html (2418 words)

	'Abd Allah al-Ma'mun
		This dirham was struck in the city of Samarqand in the year seven and ninety and one hundred.
		This dirham was struck in the city of Samarqand in the year eight and ninety and one hundred.
		This dirham was struck in Samarqand in the year seven and ten and two hundred.
	islamiccoins.ancients.info /abbasid/almamun.htm (1565 words)

	Samarqand, Uzbekistan, Pictures
		Later known as Maracanda, the city was the capital of Sogdiana, an ancient Persian province, and was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC.
		The empire declined in the 15th century, and Samarqand was taken in 1500 by the Uzbeks.
		From 1924 to 1930, Samarqand was the capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR).
	www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Uzbekistan/Samarqand_Samarkand_city.html (287 words)

	Nights Details 1
		Samarqand is the capital of Samarqand Wiloyat (Samarqand Oblast) in central Uzbekistan.
		It was an important trade centre on the route between China and the Mediterranean, as immortalised in James Elroy Flecker's The Golden Journey to Samarkand.
		Samarqand was subsequently ruled (from 1369) by the noted despot Taimur, known in the West as Taimerlane, and immortalised by Christopher Marlowe as Tamburlaine the Great (first performed in 1590).
	www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk /14-misc.htm (1296 words)

	OMAR AL-KHAYYAM
		Khayyam means the tent-maker, and although generally considered as Persian, it has also been suggested that he could have belonged to the Khayyami tribe of Arab origin who might have settled in Persia.
		Little is known about his early life, except for the fact that he was educated at Nishapur and lived there and at Samarqand for most of his life.
		While at Samarqand he was patronised by a dignatory, Abu Tahir.
	www.members.tripod.com /~wzzz/KHAYYAM.html (699 words)

	::: PICTURES OF UZBEKISTAN: SAMARQAND :::
		Samarqand, also Samarkand, city, capital of Samarqand Wiloyat, central Uzbekistan.
		Located in the irrigated valley of the Zarafshon River, the city has industries that produce tea, textiles, fertilizer, and motor-vehicle parts.
		The Sher-Dar (Lion Bearer) madrasah (religious school) in the Registan square in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, was built between 1619 and 1636.
	www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/ennews/special/uzbekistan/samarqand000.html (126 words)

	Afrasiab mural paintings (conclusion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On the western wall (being the main wall of the hall, opposite to the entrance in the eastern wall), king Varxuman was depicted as ruler of Samarqand and prime ruler of Sogd.
		It must remain open whether the scene of action is Samarqand or the residence of the Western Turks, and it must remain open whether this is a reflection of a historical event or not.
		Just as the northern wall the eastern one provides a certain symbolic enhancement of Varxuman's own legitimation as a ruling king of Samarqand: He was accepted not only by the Chinese but by the Turkish superpower, too.
	mlucom6.urz.uni-halle.de /orientarch/ca/afras/conclus.htm (838 words)

	Samarqand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Located in the irrigated valley of the Zeravshan River, the city has industries that produce tea, wine, textiles, fertilizer, and motor-vehicle parts.
		Later known as Maracanda, the city was the capital of Sogdiana, an ancient Persian province, and was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329BC.
		The city was taken by Russia in 1868 and once again began to assume importance.
	www.stormloader.com /users/bella14/Samarqand.html (240 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Central Asia, Maryam Iman
		I just spent the last two months studying Tajik in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, and I can fully agree that Iran should be categorized into CEA (Central Eurasia).
		Samarqand was not too different from Esfehan, from the blue domes to the notorious, mercantile, bozori population (a mercantilism that not even Communism could not affect much).
		Living in a traditional Mahala in Samarqand was pretty much like living in a very traditional part of Iran.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2004/August/Asia2 (466 words)

	Samarqand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Recently the Uzbek border guards had closed that road because too many Uzbeks were taking advantage of lower prices across the border and the government is trying to restrict imports.
		Sure enough, after an hour of driving I got to a place where the sign said to go right for Samarqand, but there was a big barrier across the road and a guard with a machine gun.
		Early in the last millenium, Samarqand (often spelled Samarkand) was an important station on the silk road.
	www.davidsmartin.addr.com /samarqand/samarqand.html (1030 words)

	Afrasiab mural paintings (western wall, inscription - II)
		The reference to the pantheon of Samarqand is clear and one may conclude that all the other ambassadors expressed their hommage to the Sogdian gods as did the delegate from Chaghaniyan.
		One may even conclude that these deities (or one or two of them) once were depicted in the (lost) upper parts of the western wall.
		This is the main argument for Maršak's interpretation of the western wall paintings in general: processions of delegates pay honour to the gods of Samarqand.
	www.orientarch.uni-halle.de /ca/afras/text/winscrip2.htm (422 words)

	History of Tajiks (Persians in Central Asia)
		They also revived the ancient urban centers as Bukhara, Samarqand, Merv, Nishapur, Hirat, Balkh, Khujand, Panjekent, and Holbuq which, in turn, elevated the socio-political, economic and, necessarily, cultural dynamics of the new and progressive Samanid state.
		Thus, during the Shaibanid, Astarkhanid, and Manghit rule, Tajik cultural domination declined so that in 1920 the Tajiki language was discontinued as the official language of the Emirate of Bukhara.
		But the republic borders inherited from Soviet territorial adminstration are as problematic as the ethnic distinctions inherited from Soviet nationality policy.Republic borders were drawn in Central Asia to divide the population into supposed national homelands according to the Soviet-certified nationalities.
	www.geocities.com /tajikland/History.html (1639 words)

	Iranica.com - ¿ES®MAT BOK¨AÚRÈ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He was born into a family of notables of Bukhara, where he was raised and received the customary education of his time.
		T^mu@r, who ruled Samarqand in the years 807-12/1404-9 (hence the pen name Nasá^r^ in some of his qasá^das).
		In the meantime, ˆa@hrokò occupied Samarqand in 811/1409, installed Ulu@g@ Beg as the ruler, and sent K¨al^l-Soltáa@n to Ray as governor.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v8f6/v8f672.html (308 words)

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