Samarkand
[,sæmə'kænd;sɑ:smɑ:r'kɑ:nt]
Definition
(noun.) city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century.
Typist: Miranda--From WordNet
Examples
- He himself married a daughter of Darius, though already he possessed an Asiatic wife in Roxana, the daughter of the king of Samarkand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kashgar, Khokand, Bokhara fell and then Samarkand, the capital of the Kharismian empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He established himself in Samarkand, and spread his authority over Kipchak (Turkestan to South Russia), Siberia, and southward as far as the Indus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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