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Close ✕Bukhara
Oasis city in the lower Zarafshan valley, west of Samarkand, and the capital of the Samanid emirate from 892 to 999, when it was among the foremost centres of learning in the Islamic world.…
39.8, 64.4 · exact · c. 6th century BCE - present
On the world
- A place in: Silk Road · 9 places
- Joined to: Samarkand — Bukhara · 2 places
- Joined to: Bukhara — Merv · 2 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- is connects to of Samarkand — Both sit in the Zarafshan valley, roughly 230 km apart, and formed a single commercial and cultural region — the Sogdian heartland, later the Samanid core.
- connects to Merv — The stage from Bukhara to Merv crosses the Karakum and the Amu Darya, the hardest leg between Transoxiana and the Iranian plateau.
- is centred at of Islam — Under the Samanids from 892 to 999, Bukhara was among the foremost centres of Islamic learning; Ibn Sina was born nearby in 980.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates