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Ancient city of Khiva, special and unique! History of it has indissoluble communication with history of Turkmenistan. The matter is that earlier territory of Khiva was in structure of legendary State Horezmshakhs which capital was in Urgench. In history there is a mention of Khiva in the tenth century, as about large shopping center on the Great Silk Road. All caravans which went to China and back stopped here...
Surprisingly ancient city Samarkand is located in a valley of Zaravshan river in very picturesque place in sphere (surround) of mountains. Samarkand was awarded with several epithets of poets and philosophers such as –Pearl of the East, World Mirror, Face of the Earth, Garden of thou soul. It is impossible to describe all beauty of this unusual city, its wealth in words...
The history of Tashkent —capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan - totals 2200 years for which it has passed away from a tiny ancient oasis to the largest city of Central Asia. For the first time Tashkent (in translation from Uzbek - «stone city»), is mentioned in ancient eastern chronicles of the II nd century BC (They sp called Tashkent as - Chach, Binkent, Shash in the ancient time.