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Samarkand is the oldest and most important city in Uzbekistan and is generally one of the most fundamental in the history of the entire Asian continent. Historic settlement in the Zarafshanska Valley, is Samarkand’s center of the area and second largest city in Uzbekistan. From its long history of many centuries the city has preserved many cultural and architectural monuments, with the result that today Samarkand was declared a World Heritage of UNESCO. This place really has a unique multinational mixed atmosphere, which is an overlay in the mores, customs, local and overall appearance of the buildings. Samarkand has called “the pearl of the Muslim world” and “Rome of the East”. Samarkand originated around 2000 BC. In those ancient times the city was known primarily as Afrosiab, and the Greeks call it Maracanda old town is also known as Afrosiab, and also Maracanda by the Greeks. In the early settlement was the capital of the Persian province of Sogdiana, but in 329 BC it was conquered by the powerful army of Alexander the Great. Thanks to its strategic location important, Samarkand fortune and prosper through trade routes passing away. The site was essential for the so-called. Silk Road, and an important link between China and the Mediterranean region.
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