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Places tagged “turkestan”

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan

Zhetytobe South Kurgan Cluster (Seven Hills South Ridge)

Early Saka to Wusun Transition · Saka–Wusun

Zhetytobe south: 6 adobe-ring Saka kurgans 3 km south of Seven Hills core, Turkestan Ridge.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Temple complex

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

Timurid 1389–1405 over Yasawi 12th c. · Timurid / Sufi Sunni

Colossal Timurid shrine (1389–1405) over 12th-c. Sufi poet Khoja Ahmed Yasawi's grave, commissioned by Timur to draw Islam to steppe, largest brick dome in Central Asia (44 m high, 22 m span) and…