Question: What are the ancient cities in Uzbekistan?

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Question: What are the ancient cities in Uzbekistan?  

Answer:  Bukhara, Khiva is located in the Khorezm, Samarkand,Tashkent 

Question: Why does Bukhara means in Sanskrit? 

 Answer:  In Sanskrit, Bukhara means “Monastery,” and was revered the Medieval Muslim  

East as a stronghold of the faith. 

Question: How old is Bukhara by the estimation of the scientists?  

Answer: Bukhara is estimated to be about 2300 years old. 

Question: Why Russia and Britain were interested in having control over Bukhara ?  

Answer: By the mid 19th century, Russia and Britain were both trying to gain control of  

Central Asia: Russia from the north and Britain from India in the south. 

Question: Where Khiva is located?  

Answer: Khiva is located in the Khorezm oasis inside the great Karakum Desert 

Question: When Khiva was founded by the estimation of some archeologists?  

Answer: Some archaeologists believe it was founded  

about the same time as the birth of Christ, and was named after the ancient well of  

Kvivak, said to have been discovered by Shem, the Son of Noah. 

Question: When Khiva was the center of civilization in agriculture and medicine?  

Answer: Abu Ali Bin Sina (Avicenna) and was the center of a major agricultural civilization, whose  

armies routed the Roman legions of Marcus Crassus. 

Question: When Samarkand was founded? 

 Answer: Samarkand was founded at the same time as Babylon, Memphis, Athens, and Rome – almost 

2500 years ago. 

Question: How many times Samarkand was concurred and by whom? 

 Answer: Samarkand has been conquered many times – by Alexander the Great, Genghis  

Khan, and Tamerlane, for instance. 

Question: What role played Samarkand after invasion of it by Russian empire?  

Answer: In May 1868, Samarkand fell to the Russian Empire, caught up in what is now  

known as The Great Game. 

Question: how long Arabs control Tashkent? Who were the rulers of Tashkent till the invasion of Russian 

Empire? 

Answer:The Arabs remained in control until the arrival of Ghengis Khan in the 13th century. By 1865, 

Russian forces controlled the city and made it the capital of Russian Turkistan. When the Central Soviet 

Government broke Turkistan up into several  regions