On a recent trip to Uzbekistan, our group had finished a day in Samarkand, a large city with amazing monuments. Particularly surrounding Registan Square, there are madrassahs which are stunning in architecture and design. Looking up at the structures is breathtaking. Samarkand was the home of Timur or Tamerlane, the Muslim leader of a renaissance in central Asia. Madrassah in Registan Square Our guide, Shadior

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