"Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilizations
the moon has seen passing by."
– Omar Khayyam
Intellectual powerhouse of the Islamic world. Center of trade, culture and religion. Pillar of Central Asian architecture. Madinat al Sufriya (The City of Copper). Madinat al Tujjar (The City of Merchants). Buhe. Buxoro. Bokhara. Bukhara. The number of historical names attributed to this ancient city seems to be infinite. Yet, the place they describe is the same.
For 2500 years, Bukhara has served as a focal point of world civilization and home to a multicultural, multilingual and multi-religious society. As one of the great cities of Persia, it maintains its place among a select group of Silk Route cities— such as Yazd, Ishfahan, Samarkand, Merv, Bagdad, Herat, Balkh, and Kashgar—that are spoken of in travelers' tales and history books.



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