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Shakhrisabz

Timur's Birthplace

The home town of Central Asia's foremost conqueror was the Songdian town of Kesh when Chinese Buddhist traveller
Xuan Zang passed though in the early 7th Century.
Tamerlane used his lineage to gather a band of followers with whom he progressed from sheep-rustler to lord of the valley and beyond.
Though Tamerlane would eventually crumble like the buildings he commissioned, Kesh took from its golden age a new name, Shakhrisabz, Green Town, after the spring verdure of its many gardens

Plane Tree	After Prayers	XIMG_2891.jpg	XIMG_2892.jpg
XIMG_2896.jpg	Jummi Mosque	XIMG_2901.jpg	Jahangir Mausoleum Ceiling
XIMG_2899.jpg	15th Century Bathhouse	XIMG_2909.jpg	Kok Gumbaz Mosque
XIMG_2921.jpg	XIMG_2923.jpg	XIMG_2924.jpg	XIMG_2932.jpg
XIMG_2934.jpg	Oak Tree Mosaic	XIMG_2936.jpg	XIMG_2938.jpg
XIMG_2941.jpg	XIMG_2947.jpg	Ak Serai Palace (White Palace)	Tilework: a tribute to 15th Century ceramists
XIMG_2955.jpg	XIMG_2957.jpg	"There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet"	XIMG_2968.jpg
Ak Serai Palace	Timur Statue	XIMG_2978.jpg	XIMG_2982.jpg
XIMG_2983.jpg	Pruned Mulberry Trees	XIMG_2990.jpg	XIMG_2991.jpg
Mountain Pass	XIMG_2994.jpg	XIMG_2998.jpg	XIMG_2999.jpg
XIMG_3002.jpg	Rhubarb Vendor	XIMG_3008.jpg	XIMG_3009.jpg
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