question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Sogdian characters. Samarkand or Samarqand (/ˈsæmərkænd/ SAM-ər-kand; Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand...

Samarkand non or "Samarkand bread" is a traditional bread from Uzbekistan. It is a very popular bread that accompanies the numerous dishes of the traditional...

(Tamerlane) in the 14th century established the Timurid Empire. Its capital was Samarkand, which became a centre of science under the rule of Ulugh Beg, giving...

Samarkand International Airport (IATA: SKD, ICAO: UTSS) is an airport of entry in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 6 km (3.7 mi) from the city center. The airport...

The tram system of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, consists of two lines operated by Uzbek Railways, with a total of 26 stops and a length of 11.4 kilometers....

Динамо Самарқанд) is an Uzbek professional football club, based in city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Currently it plays in Uzbekistan Super League. FC Dinamo...

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Here is the translation into English: 8th century BC - the foundation...

Samarkand (French: Samarcande), written by French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, is a 1988 historical fiction novel that revolves around the 11th-century...

Afrosiyob),(Persian: افراسياب afrāsiyāb) is an ancient site in Northern Samarkand, present day Uzbekistan, that was occupied from c. 500 BC to 1220 AD prior...

The Amulet of Samarkand is a young adult novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic. It is the first book in the Bartimaeus Sequence written by English...

The Samarkand Kufic Quran (also known as the Mushaf Uthmani, Samarkand codex, Tashkent Quran and Uthman Qur'an) is a manuscript Quran, or mushaf, and is...

Siege of Samarkand may refer to multiple sieges of Samarkand: Siege of Samarkand (1220), in which the Mongols captured the city Siege of Samarkand (1490s)...

The Samarkand klan (alternatively Samarqand) is an Uzbek clan led by Ismoil Jurabekov. The clan is one of two major clans in Uzbekistan; the other, its...

Samarkand State University (SamSU) (Uzbek: Sharof Rashidov nomidagi Samarqand Davlat Universiteti (SamDU); Russian: Самаркандский государственный университет...

Uzbekistan (in Samarkand) Samarkand Veterinary Medicine Institute Samarkand State Institute of Architecture and Construction Samarkand Institute of Economics...

urban-type settlements in the Samarqand Region. List of Hokims of the Samarkand Region Uzbek: Самарқанд вилояти, romanized: Samarqand viloyati, IPA: [samarˈqand...

fifth century. The seal of the Kidarites, made in the 5th century in Samarkand, has a Bactrian inscription containing the title of the ruler: "Oglar...

The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in modern day Samarkand, Uzbekistan, which was built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg. This...

December 2011. The train carried out its first trip from Tashkent to Samarkand on 26 August 2011. Two more Talgo 250 trainsets were constructed for Afrosiyob...

The Magician of Samarkand is a children's book by Alan Temperley which was made into a special three-part television program in 2006 for the British series...

Samarkand Airways (Uzbek: Samarqand Havo Yo’llari, Самарканд Хаво Йуллари) was an airline based in Uzbekistan that performed passenger and cargo charter...

The Samarkand Oblast was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire between 1887 and 1924. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Uzbekistan...

Ulugʻbek madrasasi) is a madrasa (Islamic school) in the historic center of Samarkand, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Uzbekistan. Together with other monuments...

by architect Jeremy Lever. The rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, early on 18 September 1970. He had spent...

He conquered Samarkand two years later, only to lose Fergana soon after. In his attempt to reconquer Fergana, he lost control of Samarkand. In 1501, his...

The siege of Samarkand (1220) took place in 1220 A.D. after Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, had launched a multi-pronged invasion of the Khwarazmian...

Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror (published in the US under the title Dirty Diplomacy)...

Samarkand State Medical University (Samarkand State Medical Institute before April 1, 2022), or SSMU, is a higher educational institution in Uzbekistan...

People in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, 1981...

Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summits Beijing 2012 Dushanbe 2014 Astana 2017 Samarkand 2022 Astana 2024 Islamabad 2024 Member states  Belarus  China  India  Iran...