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\"Chorsu\"Timur\u2019s hometown Shakhrisabz<\/span> is a small town south of Samarkand. By the time of birth of Timur on 9 April 1336<\/span> at the village of Hoja Ilghar, 13<\/span> km to the south from Kesh (former name of Shakhrisabz), Kesh was ruled by the Barlas clan, Mongols of the Chaghatai khanate, turkicised by their long stay in the fertile Kashkadarya valley. Using his Barlas lineage, Tamerlane gathered a band of followers, who helped him to become from a sheep-rustler to the lord of the valley by the age of 25<\/span>. A decade later he became a lord of the whole Transoxiana, making the Samarkand the capital of his empire. As he rose to power, Timur paid great effort to strengthen and beautify Kesh. He built Ak Saray, the white palace, surrounded it by high walls and a deep moat, crossed by drawbridge, and laid out green gardens which gave a new name of Shakhrisabz (Tajik for “Green Town”).
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\n\"DorusThe town was almost destroyed in the 16th<\/span> century by the emir of Bukhara, Abdullah Khan II, in a quest for the Shaybanid throne. Local stories claim that he became very angry, when he lost his favorite horse from exhaustion on the approach to the city that he ordered to destroy it. Most of the Shakhrisabz\u2019s current attractions were built here by Timur (including a tomb intended for himself) or his grandson Ulughbek. Although, the city hosts many historical sites, it is worth a visit just to check out the great man\u2019s roots. The most beautiful historical part of Shakhrisabz, is the Kok Gumbaz mosque and Dorut Tilovat. The Kok Gumbaz was competed in 1437<\/span> by Ulughbek in honor of his father Shah Rukh. Dorut Tilovat (House of Meditation) hosts the Mausoleum of Sheikh Shamseddin Kulyal (1374<\/span>), spiritual tutor to Timur and his father, and Gumbaz Seyidan (Dome of the Sayyids), which Ulughbek finished in 1438 as a mausoleum for his own descendants.
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\nThe old city\u2019s plan consisted of streets converging toward the centre from six gates in the 5-mile- (8-kilometre-) long, 11th<\/span>-century walls. The walls and gates were destroyed after the capture of the town by the Russians, but the plan of the medieval period is still preserved. The old city contains some of the finest monuments of Central Asian architecture from the 14th<\/span> to the 20th<\/span> century, including several buildings dating from the time when Samarkand was Timur\u2019s capital city.
\nAmong the latter structures are the mosque of Bibi-Khanom (1399\u20131404<\/span>), a building that was commissioned by Timur\u2019s favorite Chinese wife, and Timur\u2019s tomb itself, the Gur Amir mausoleum, built about 1405<\/span>. To the second half of the 15th<\/span> century belongs the Ak Saray tomb with a superb fresco of the interior.
\nThe Registan Square, an impressive public square in the old city, is fronted by several madrasahs (Islamic schools): that of Timur\u2019s grandson, the astronomer Ulugbeg (1417\u201320<\/span>), and those of Shirdar (1619\u20131635\/36<\/span>) and Tilakari (mid-17th century), which together border the square on three sides. Shakhrisabz has several other mausoleums, madrasahs, and mosques dating from the 15th<\/span> to the 17th<\/span> century, though they are not as impressive as the structures from Timur\u2019s day.
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\nThe principal features of Shakhrisabz\u2019s ancient buildings are their splendid portals, their vast coloured domes, and their remarkable exterior decorations in majolica, mosaic, marble, and gold. The historic city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001<\/span>. The newer, Russian section of Shakhrisabz, construction of which began in 1871<\/span>, expanded considerably during the Soviet period, and public buildings, houses, and parks were built. There are Uzbek and Russian theatres, a university (established 1933<\/span>), and higher-educational institutions for agriculture, medicine, architecture, and trade.<\/p>\n

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  Introduction Timur\u2019s hometown Shakhrisabz is a small town south of Samarkand. By the time of birth of Timur on 9 April 1336 at the village of Hoja Ilghar, 13 km to the south from Kesh (former name of Shakhrisabz), Kesh was ruled by the Barlas clan, Mongols of the Chaghatai khanate, turkicised by their … Continue reading “Shakhrisabz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[11,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}