| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Kalta Minaret
|
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View of the fat, blue tiled minaret from its base.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Kalta Minaret
|
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A former palace, now a hotel, next to the minaret.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Kalta Minaret
|
 |
Detail of the 1855 minaret which was never completed.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
The walls of the former palace.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Statue of local mathematician Al-Kwarizmi, originator of the word "algebra". The term "algorithm" is a corruption of his name.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Mohammad Rakhim Khan Medressa
|
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The Mohammad Rakhim Khan Medressa dates from the 19th century.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Mohammad Rakhim Khan Medressa
|
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The decorated entrance gate.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Mohammad Rakhim Khan Medressa
|
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The courtyard of the medressa.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Mohammad Rakhim Khan Medressa
|
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Brick and tiles.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Mohammad Rakhim Khan Medressa
|
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Items owned by Mohammad Rakhim Khan who surrended to Russia in 1873 and keeping his independence.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
The narrow streets of Khiva's old walled city.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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House with a minaret.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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The Alloquli Khan Caravanserai is a domed market.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Typical view in the old city.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
One of the many buildings in the old city.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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The Sayid Alauddin Mausoleum dates from 1310, the Mongol era.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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The Alloquli Khan Medressa dates from 1835.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Juma Mosque
|
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The 47m high minaret of the Juma Mosque.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Juma Mosque
|
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The mosque contains 218 wooden columns, some dating from the 10th century.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Juma Mosque
|
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Detail of a carved wooden column.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Alloquli Khan Medressa
|
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The gateway of the Alloquli Khan Medressa.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Alloquli Khan Medressa
|
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Tiling beneath the gateway of the Alloquli Khan Medressa.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
Two men out for a walk.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
Old woman.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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The Tosh Hovli Palace was constructed in 1841 as an alternative residence for Alloquli Khan.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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The tiled interior courtyard of the palace.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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The wall of the courtyard in the Tosh Hovli. The name means "Stone Palace".
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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Tiles and carved wooden door.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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Decorated wooden ceiling.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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Highly decorated room.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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The palace has some of the most ellaborate tile work in Khiva.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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Fine wood carved door.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
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Carpet sellers by a pavillion and a circular area for tents.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Tosh Hovli Palace
|
 |
Detail of tiled wall.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
Astronomical text by mathematician and scientist, Al-Kwarizmi.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Money printed on silk in the Mint.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Silk carpet maker.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Two women weaving a silk carpet.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Female carpet weaver.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Silk threads.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Aq Mosque (1657).
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Islom-Hoja Madressa
|
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A wood carving of Ibn-Sina (Avicenna) who wrote hundreds of medical books.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Islom-Hoja Madressa
|
 |
A wood carving of Al-Kwarizmi, a famous scientist and mathematician.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
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The Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum is surrounded by unmarked tombs of the khans of Khiva.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
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The entrance.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
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Exquisite tiles in the mausoleum.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
 |
Wood carved door with Arabic inscription in tomb area.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
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The tomb of Khan Mohammed Rakhim II who ruled Khiva between 1865 and 1910.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
 |
Pilgrims inside the tomb.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
 |
Beautiful tiled alcove.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
Site / Event : Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
|
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The dome.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
Orient Star Hotel.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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A newly married couple.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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A wedding party.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Dancing at a wedding party.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
The city walls.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Dekhon Bazaar is outside the city walls.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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The market is very busy.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Uzbek fruit seller.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Water and honey melons.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Peanuts.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Red peppers.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
 |
Walnuts.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Tajik woman in the market.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Vegetable sellers.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Transporting melons.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Water melon seller.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Nut seller.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Woman with money.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
 |
Peanut seller.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Man in the market.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
 |
Tajik woman.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
 |
Uzbek woman.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Buying peppers.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
District : Dekhon Bazaar
|
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Old woman.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
Gate and city walls.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
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Street scene in the former silk road capital.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
City / Town : Khiva
|
 |
Three children.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
|
 |
The Amu-Darya River (the ancient River Oxus).
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
|
 |
The Amu-Darya River was crossed by Alexander the Great.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
|
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Simple boats by the riverside.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
City / Town : Jumurtaw
|
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The village of Jumurtaw.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
City / Town : Jumurtaw
|
 |
Pontoon bridge.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
|
 |
The river passes through desert.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
Site / Event : Chilpyk
|
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Chilpyk viewed from the Amu-Darya.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
Site / Event : Chilpyk
|
 |
Chilpyk is a Zoroastran tower of silence where the dead are laid.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Amu-Darya River
Site / Event : Chilpyk
|
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Semi-desert lies a short distance from the river.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
City / Town : Nukus
|
 |
Karakalpak woman from Nukus. Karakalpakistan is an autonomous region in western Uzbekistan.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
City / Town : Nukus
Site / Event : Savitsky Art Museum
|
 |
"The Bull" by Vladimir Lysenko is one of 90,000 paintings collected in secret during the Soviet period and now in the Savitsky Art Museum.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
City / Town : Nukus
Site / Event : Savitsky Art Museum
|
 |
Scenes from Uzbekistan by Igor Savitsky.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
City / Town : Nukus
Site / Event : Savitsky Art Museum
|
 |
Paintings by N Karakhan.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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The ancient city of Mizdakhan was inhabited between the 4th century BCE and 1300.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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Tombs at the former hilltop city destroyed by Timur.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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Mizdakhan was inhabited between the 4th century BCE and the 1300s.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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White domed tombs were constructed on the site until the early 20th century.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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Simple brick tombs.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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Simple round brick tomb.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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Tiled tomb interior.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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Tomb interior.
|
2008 |
| Uzbekistan |
Region : Karakalpakistan
Site / Event : Mizdakhan
|
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The hilltop is surrounded by graves.
|
2008 |
were added from 1 February 2025.