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AndijanFrom this city, a boy named Babur set out to conquer India and founded the Mughal Empire — and then spent his whole life longing for Andijan in verse.
Things to Do in BukharaIf Samarkand is grand squares and imperial scale, Bukhara is an entire medieval city that survived almost whole. Here it isn't monuments scattered…
FerghanaAmong the ancient cities of Uzbekistan, Ferghana is the odd one out: it's less than 150 years old, with straight avenues instead of narrow Eastern lanes…
Things to Do in KhivaSamarkand is squares, Bukhara is streets — and Khiva is an entire walled city under open sky. Here you can climb the wall and take in everything at once…
KokandWhile Samarkand and Bukhara lived on their antiquity, the Ferghana Valley as late as the 19th century saw its own state flourish — the Kokand Khanate.
MargilanThat "silk" in the phrase "Silk Road" comes, in large part, from here. For more than a thousand years Margilan has woven khan-atlas — a shimmering fabric…
NukusPeople come here not for minarets and not for tilework. Nukus is about something else: about the man who carried thousands of canvases into the…
Things to Do in SamarkandThis is where Ulugh Beg measured the stars and Silk Road caravans unloaded both silk and ideas. Samarkand isn't an open-air museum.
ShakhrisabzSamarkand became the capital of an empire. Shakhrisabz was the homeland. Timur built a palace here taller than those of Samarkand and prepared his own…
TashkentUzbekistan's capital is over two thousand years old — yet you can barely see that age: the 1966 earthquake erased the old town…
TermezIn the far south of the country, right on the border with Afghanistan, lies a city that breaks the familiar picture. Before the minarets and madrasas…
