Samarkand

(noun.) city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century.

编辑:米兰达

• He himself married a daughter of Darius, though already he possessed an Asiatic wife in Roxana, the daughter of the king of Samarkand. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Kashgar, Khokand, Bokhara fell and then Samarkand, the capital of the Kharismian empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He established himself in Samarkand, and spread his authority over Kipchak (Turkestan to South Russia), Siberia, and southward as far as the Indus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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