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Tagssamanid
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Samanid to Shaybanid 9th–16th c (settled from 1st c CE) · Samanid / Qarakhanid / Shaybanid Islamic (Persian)
2000-year-old Silk Road oasis city preserved as intact medieval Islamic townscape with 140+ monuments.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Achaemenid to Mongol (c.500 BCE–1220 CE, Sogdian peak 6th–8th cent CE) · Sogdian / Kushan / Islamic
Ancient Samarkand (Maracanda) — 220 ha Sogdian walled plateau with 7th-century Afrasiab murals of Eurasian envoys.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Ferghana medieval (300 BCE–1600 CE) · Ferghana to Samanid to Karakhanid
Akhsikath was Ferghana's medieval capital (9th–12th c) — 30-ha citadel + shahristan with 7-m walls, Syr Darya port and glass workshops, destroyed 1219 Mongol.
