Talk:Samarkand

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Why is the city declared to be in Tajikistan?
As far as I know, Samarkand is located in Uzbekistan so why does the article state that the city is located in Tajikistan? This should be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.154.34.38 (talk) 00:38, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Popular culture section
Popular culture sections can be useful, though random pieces of unsourced and unencyclopedic information are not. The Popular culture section in this article has attracted a lot of random pieces of unsourced and trivial information. Leaving the section in place will likely encourage more unsourced and dubious material, so I have moved it here for editors to evaluate the material, find sources, and look to see if the information can be incorporated into the main body of the article per WP:MISCELLANEA, or a more robust Popular culture section built.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  16:08, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

thumb|Bazaar in Samarkand, illustration by [[Léon Benett for a Jules Verne novel]] "The Golden Horde" was a 1951 movie starring David Farrar and Ann Blyth. It depicted a defence of the city against the forces of Genghis Khan.
 * Samarkand is the title of a 1988 novel by Amin Maalouf, about Omar Khayyám's life.
 * The Amulet of Samarkand is the first book in the Bartimaeus Trilogy written by Jonathan Stroud.
 * The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O'Brian's early novels (1954) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.
 * For part of the history espoused in Clive Barker's novel Galilee, the city of Samarkand is held as a shining light of humanity, and one of the characters longs to go there.
 * Lord of Samarcand is a work of historical fiction by Robert E. Howard.
 * In Sergei Lukyanenko's The Last Watch, the main character Anton Gorodetsky visits Samarkand as part of his investigation and the city's landmarks feature heavily.
 * Samarkand can appear as an archetype of romantic exoticism, notably in the work by James Elroy Flecker: The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913).
 * In Islamic literature and discussions, Samarkand has taken on a semi-mythological status and is often cited as an ideal of Islamic philosophy and society, a place of justice, fairness, and righteous moderation.
 * Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, explores the metaphysical significance of the marketplace in a volume of poetry entitled Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known, 2002.
 * Embassy to Samarkand by Ali Bey (Ruy González de Clavijo) is a narrative of the journey to Samarkand by the Spanish nobleman Ruy González de Clavijo, who travelled disguised as a Syrian notable (Ali Beg or Bey in Spanish), sent by the king of Spain as ambassador to Timur in the late 14th century. The book was published in 1406 after González de Clavijo's return to the metropolis.
 * Murder in Samarkand by Craig Murray is a book about the UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan's experiences in this role, until he resigned over human rights abuses in the country in October 2004.
 * In 1972, Swedish composer wrote "" ("If you ever reach Samarkand") made notable by Swedish singer Lill Lindfors in 1978.
 * The objective of the fourth mission in the Genghis Khan campaign of the video game Age of Empires 2 is to destroy the city of Samarkand.
 * The fictional city of Zanarkand in the Final Fantasy series used Samarkand as inspiration.
 * Samarkand, along with Baghdad, was mentioned by George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life as a place he would like to visit.
 * Samarkand appears in the video game Civilization V as a neutral city-state.

Leo1pard (talk) 15:05, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Can anyone verify Samarkand being under Sasanian Persian rule via a source or citation?
I am beginning to notice a lot of unsourced content within articles such as Bactria and Samarkand lately, namely with the Sassanid Persian Empire.

Essentially, I am saying that this sentence "The Turks ruled over Samarkand until they were defeated by the Sassanids during the Göktürk–Persian Wars." should be removed if there is no source to back it up. Kirby (talk) 04:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Russian name?
Does the Russian name of the city warrant inclusion in the article? --Lingveno (talk) 06:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Tajik name?
Does the Tajik name of the city warrant inclusion in the article? --Lingveno (talk) 06:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Page views
Leo1pard (talk) 15:04, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Photos
There seem to be two photos of Shah-i-Zinda in the infobox. Shouldn't the pictures all be of different landmarks? (The captions are also wrong, which led me to notice this in the first place.)--Vellidragon (talk) 19:25, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * Registan Samarkand Timurid Renaissance.jpg

Ishratkhana
I'm uzbek and I was born in Samarkand. In this article has a picture of historical building, which named "Ishratkhana". It's not true name of building. It is "Ashratkhana". Ashratkhona arabic name. It means "ten (10) room". Becouse, in history that building had a 10 rooms. This memorial built by Temurid emperor Abu Said for her wife Habiba Sulton.

Current name "Ishratkhana" means "brothel room" in uzbek language. That is why, we shuold change name of building for original name. For more information see https://zarnews.uz/uz/post/habiba-sulton-begim-maqbarasi-yoxud-ashratxona-nega-xalqimiz-orasida-notogri-talqin-qilinadi Ravshan Burxonov (talk) 09:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Samarkand population 1050.000 people (2020)
Akrom Jumaqulov 92.63.205.147 (talk) 04:13, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Samarkand one of the most important silk road centre at the middle century
samrkand sayqali ruyi zaminas 92.63.205.147 (talk) 04:16, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Inconsistency with name in article
The standing title of the article is Samarkand. However, a majority of the article uses "Samarqand" instead as an alternate name. Shouldn't these be edited to be more consistent? HaapsaluYT (talk) 18:14, 20 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Looks like about a year ago, one single user went through and changed all the Ks to Qs in a series of 5 edits.
 * This seems like an awfully wide-reaching change to be done single-handedly without first establishing consensus.
 * (Edit: The same change was done to the Uzbekistan page last year as well, but was reverted as being nonconstructive.)240B:253:E1E3:1500:25F:0:0:1000 (talk) 12:50, 11 June 2024 (UTC)