See soorce fer Shahrisabz

'''Shakhrisabz''' ({{lang-uz|'''Shahrisabz''' / Шаҳрисабз}}; {{lang-fa|شهر سبز / Shahr-e Sabz}}; {{lang-ru|Шахрисабз}}), is a ceety in [[Uzbekistan]]i province o [[Qashqadaryo Province|Qashqadaryo]] locatit approximately 80&nbsp;km sooth o [[Samarkand]] wi the population o 53,000 (1991). It is locatit at the altitude o 622 m. Ance a major ceety o [[Central Asie]], it is primarily kent the day as the birthplace o 14t century [[Turco-Mongol]] conqueror [[Timur]]. Its name (شهر سبز) means "green/verdant ceety" in [[Persie leid|Persian]].

==History==

Umwhile kent as '''Kash''' (i.e., "hert-pleasin") an tentatively identifee'd wi the auncient '''Nautaca''' Shahrisabz shoud be coontit amang Central Asie’s maist auncient ceeties. It wis foondit mair nor 2700 years ago.

Frae the 6t tae 4t centuries BC it wis a pairt o Akhemenid empire.

[[Alexander the Great]]'s general [[Ptolemy I Soter|Ptolemy]] captured the [[satrap]] o [[Bactrie]] an [[pretender]] tae the [[Persie Empire|Persie]] throne, [[Bessus]], at Nautaca thus endin the ance great [[Achaemenid]] Empire. Alexander the Great chose tae spend his winters an met his wife [[Roxanna]] in the aurie in 328-327 BC.

Frae 4t tae 8t century Kesh wis ane o urban centers o [[Sogdiana]].

Atween 567 an 658 rulers o Kesh paid taxes tae caghans o Turkic an Wastren Turkic caghanates.

In 710 ceety wis conqured bi Arabs.

Shahrisabz wis the birthplace o [[Timur]] on Aprile 9, 1336, tae the faimily o a minor local chief, an durin the early years o the [[Timurid dynasty]], enjoyed its considerable patronage. Timur regardit Shahrisabz as his “hame toun” an planned it eventually tae be the location o his tomb. Housomeivver, durin the Timurid period, the centre o activity shiftit tae [[Samarkand]] insteid.

Accordin tae legend, The [[Khan (teetle)|Khan]] o [[Bukhara]], [[Abdullah Khan II]] haed the ceety destroyed in a fit o rage ower the daith o his favorite horse frae exhaustion on a steep approach the ceety, but wis later owercome wi remorse for the damage he haed done.

The ceety struggled for autonomy unner Bukharan rule. The [[Roushie Empire|Roushies]] helped Bukharan emir tae conquere the ceety in 1870.

==Ethnography==

Shahrisabz is ane o Uzbakistan's touns an ceeties wi a Persie-speakin Tajik majority. The kintraside is solidly Tajik, pairticularly in the direction o the east an [[Tajikistan]]. The Uzbeks, "Chaghatay" an "Turks" form a lairge minority in the ceety. The Roushie minority is dwindlin syne 1991 an the [[collapse o the Soviet Union]].

== Monuments ==
[[Image:Aq-Saray Shahrisabz 2.JPG|thumb|Entrance tae the Ark fortress.]]

Several remainin impressive monuments frae the [[Timurid dynasty]] hae enabled the auld pairt o the ceety tae be inscribed on the [[UNESCO]] [[Warld Heritage Leet]].(''See'' [[Leet o Warld Heritage Steids in Uzbekistan]])

* '''Aq-Saray Palace'''

'''[[Timur]]'s Simmer Palace''', the “White Palace” wis planned as the maist grandiose o aw Timur's constructions. It wis stairtit in 1380 bi airtisans deportit bi Timur frae the recently-conquered [[Khwarezm]]. Unfortunately, anerliey traces o its gigantic 65 m gate-touers survive, wi blue, white an gowd mosaics. Abuin the entry o the Ak-Saray are big letters sayin: "If ye challenge oor pouer - leuk at oor biggins!"

* '''Kok Gumbaz Mosque / Dorut Tilyovat ([[Dorut Tilavat]]) Complex'''

A Friday [[mosque]] biggit in 1437 bi [[Ulugh Beg]] in honour o his faither [[Shah Rukh]], its name meanin “Blue Dome”. Locatit immediately ahint the Kok Gumbaz Mosque is the sae-cried “Hoose o Meditation”, a [[mausoleum]] biggit bi Ulugh Beg in 1438 but apparently niver uised for burials.

* '''Hazrat-i Imam Complex'''

East o the Kok Gumbaz is anither mausoleum complex cried '''Dorussiadat''' (Seat o Pouer an Micht), which contains the Tomb o Jehangir, Timur’s eldest an favorite son. The adjacent mosque is said tae hoose the tomb o a revered 8t century [[imam]] [[Amir Kulal]].

[[Image:Dorussiadat.JPG|thumb|left|Dorussiadat mausoleum]]
* '''Tomb o Timur'''

Ahint the Hazrat-i Imam Emsemble is a bunker wi a door leadin tae an unnergrund chamber, discovered bi airchaeologists in 1943. The room is nearly filled wi a single stane casket, on which inscriptions indicate that it wis intendit for Timur. Housomeivver, the conqueror wis buried in Samarkand, no at Shahrisabz, an mysteriously, his tomb in Shahrisabz contained twa unidentifee'd corpse.

An a o interest are medieval baths an an 18t century [[bazaar]].

== In popular cultur ==
In 1980s the Uzbek group "Yalla" wrote a sang aboot Shahrisabz.

==Freemit airtins==
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*[http://www.orexca.com/shakhrisabz.shtml History an monuments o Shahrisabz]
*[http://www.kufic.info/architecture/aqsaray/aqsaray.htm Square Kufic decoration on Timur's Simmer Palace]
*[http://www.kufic.info/architecture/shakhrisabz/daralsiyadah.htm Square Kufic decoration on the Dar al-Siyadah Complex]
*[http://www.kufic.info/architecture/shakhrisabz/daraltilavah.htm Square Kufic decoration on the Dar al-Tilavah Complex]
*{{Youtube|id = 3elGQefFPlw|title = Yalla - "Shahrisabz"}}

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