Samarqand is an ancient historic city on the Silk Road, famed for its turquoise domes, grand mosques, and scholars.
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Samarqand
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Samarqand is one of Central Asia's oldest cities and a jewel of the Silk Road in Transoxiana. It thrived through trade and scholarship, serving as a vital center of papermaking. Famous for the magnificent Registan square with its blue-tiled colleges, it also housed Ulugh Beg's advanced astronomical observatory.
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