The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir (Uzbek: Amir Temur Maqbarasi, Go'ri Amir, Persian: گورِ امیر) is a mausoleum of the Turkic conqueror Timur (also known as Tamerlane)...

ebony coffin and sent to Samarkand, where it was buried". His tomb, the Gur-e-Amir, still stands in Samarkand, though it has been heavily restored in recent...

made it the capital of his empire and the site of his mausoleum, the Gur-e Amir. The Bibi-Khanym Mosque, rebuilt during the Soviet era, remains one of...

stone decorating it". The museum's blue cupola resembles that of the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum in Samarkand. Though the museum was built according to the traditions...

war of succession. Miran Shah was buried alongside his father in the Gur-e-Amir in Samarqand. Miran Shah married three times: Daulatgaldi Agha — daughter...

Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. He was buried in Gur-e-Amir, Samarkand, located in present-day Uzbekistan. In 1740 Nader Shah, who...

first chartak) turned southward was built in 1434 to 1435 under Ulugbek. Gur-e Amir Tourism in Uzbekistan History of Persian domes The Shakh-i-Zinda Ensemble...

Abdallah Mirza (1450–1451), who placed his remains at Timur's feet in the Gur-e-Amir in Samarkand, where they were found by Soviet archaeologists in 1941....

his father's body to be exhumed before reburying it with Timur's in the Gur-e-Amir in Samarqand. The succession struggle among Shah Rukh's family continued...

start the tradition of being buried in a paradise garden. Modelled on Gur-e Amir, the tomb of his ancestor and Asia's conqueror Timur in Samarkand, it...

people. Mausoleum of Shaybanids Chorsu trading dome Bibi-Khanym Mosque Gur-e Amir Shah-i-Zinda Timurid dynasty Tourism in Uzbekistan Shayboni's hut (Samarkand)...

itself as the Saltanat e Gurkaniya or Saltanat e Mughaliya. Gurkani Gurkani, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran Gur-e-Amir, the grave and mausoleum...

same mausoleum, Gur-e Amir, at Samarkand. Vasilij Vladimirovič Bartold (1962). Four studies on the history of Central Asia, Volume 1. E.J. Brill. p. 19...

for the building came from Timurid and Mughal buildings including the Gur-e Amir in Samarkand (the tomb of Timur, progenitor of the Mughal dynasty) and...

most of them. The architect Nikolai Vasilyev patterned the mosque after Gur-e-Amir, the tomb of Tamerlane in Samarkand. Its construction was completed by...

1402 – Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic is completed. 1403 The Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand is begun on the orders of Timur. The City God Temple...

the Bukhara Emirate. Bukhara Prison Bukhara Prison is the prison of the Amir of Bukhara. The prison was built in the second half of the 18th century,...

present-day Kazakhstan and culminated in Timur's mausoleum Gur-e Amir in Samarkand. Timur's Gur-I Amir, the 14th-century mausoleum of the conqueror is covered...

their ancestor Timur. Built in 1403 AD (810 AH) Timur is buried in the Gur-e Amir in Samarkand, under a fluted dome. The tomb employs a traditional Persian...

Northern iwan of the mosque Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum in front of the mosque Gur-e Amir Shah-i-Zinda Registan Tourism in Uzbekistan History of Persian domes "Bibi-Khanym...

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Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, romanized: Pārsa; New Persian: تخت جمشید, romanized: Takht-e Jamshīd, lit. 'Throne of Jamshid') was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid...

The Golestan Palace (Persian: کاخ گلستان, Kākh-e Golestān), also transliterated as the Gulistan Palace and sometimes translated as the Rose Garden Palace...

Mughal style. Further west, it also influenced early Ottoman architecture. Gur-e Amir, "Tomb of the King": Timur's tomb in Samarkand Façade of the Bibi Khanum...

Traditional cities Amol Andijan Baku Bam Bukhara Ctesiphon Derbent Ganja Gur-e-Amir Hatra Herat Isfahan Kashan Kashmar Khiva Khorramabad Mashhad Merv Nakhchivan...

archeologists have found items dating back to the 7th and 8th centuries B.C.E. Historically, Andijan was an important city on the Silk Road. The city is...

adjacent mosque is said to house the tomb of a revered 8th century imam Amir Kulal. Tomb of Timur Behind the Hazrat-i Imam Emsemble is a bunker with a...

Today it is an archaeological site located just north of the town of Madar-e-Soleyman and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the northeast of the modern city...

which have survived across Turkey today (e.g. the large Sultan Han in Aksaray Province) as well as in Iran (e.g. the Ribat of Sharaf in Khorasan province)...

includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 9–14th and 19th centuries. Gur-e-Amir, Samarkand Mai Dich Cemetery – cemetery established after French occupation...