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Uzbekistan

Sunset on madrasah of Islam Khodja and minaret into Ichan Kala, the walled inner town of the city of Khiva, Uzbekistan

 

On the Silk Road trade carried across Central Asia's deserts, now the old town retains more than 50 historic monuments and 250 old houses, dating primarily from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

Since 1990, Khiva has been protected as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

 

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