... First of 3 great new Unesco sites... all located along the famous ancient Silk Road... the "Kutlug Murad Inak Madrasah" was the first two-story madrasa in Khiva in its time... and is the only monument where unglazed layered terracotta is used... Itchan Kala is the largest surviving wall city in the Central part of Asia in the middle of a desert... the town is very heavily restored and operates virtually as an open air museum... there are nearly 60 historic buildings preserved including palaces, mosques, minarets and pillars... ..Thanks Boris!【ツ】
Khiva is an ancient city located in Khorezm region. In the 10thC Khiva is mentioned as a major trading center on the Silk Road and was the last resting-place of caravans before crossing the desert to Iran. It was under the Timurid Empire that many of Khiva’s cities rose to prosperity. The city’s rulers, the Khans of Khiva, built the wall to keep off colonial threats. Itchan Kala was preserved by Russian colonial rulerd and is a cultural heritage in modern day Uzbekistan.
Itchan Kala, the inner town of Khiva, is a coherent ensemble of Islamic architecture that dates from the 14th to the 19th century.
It became the first site in Uzbekistan to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1990.
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