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n. One of the major cities of Uzbekistan, capital of the Bukhara region.
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Bukhara (; ; ; ), is one of the cities ( viloyat) of Uzbekistan. Bukhara is a city-museum, with about 140 architectural monuments. The nation's fifth-largest city, it had a population of approximately 272,710. Humans have inhabited the region around Bukhara for at least five millennia, and the city has existed for half that time. Located on the Silk Road, the city has long served as a center of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion. UNESCO has listed the historic center of Bukhara (which contains numerous mosques and madrassas) as a World Heritage Site.
Bukhara or Bokhara can refer to:
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Bukhara, a city in Uzbekistan
- Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan, also known as 'Buxoro Province' or 'Buxoro Wiloyati'
- the Bukhara meteorite of 2001, which fell in Bukhara, Uzbekistan (see Meteorite falls)
- Bukhara, a former country in Central Asia centered on the city of Bukhara. Known at various times as:
- The Khanate of Bukhara (16th–18th centuries)
- The Emirate of Bukhara (1785–1920)
- The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic (1920–1924)
- Bukhara magazine, an Iranian Persian-language magazine
- Bukhara (restaurant) A restaurant in New Delhi, India
- Bukhara rug, an erroneous but (in the West) common term for Turkmen rugs
- Buxar, aka Bukhara, Bihar in India
- Bokhara River, a river in Australia
- Buhara, a character from Hunter × Hunter
- Bakhra, aka Bukhara, Muzaffarpur district
- Bukharan Jews, a population of Jews from Central Asia
Bukhara is a restaurant at the Luxury Collection ITC Maurya Hotel in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1977.
Usage examples of "bukhara".
Enormous topographical closeups of the various Sovereign Republics, wrinkled mountain ranges, satellite images of rivers, the Black Sea and Crimea, postcards from tourist spots and exotic cities: Samarkand, Bukhara, Vladivostok, Yerevan, Minsk, Kazan, Gorky, Arkhangelsk, even Moscow.
He then left Bukhara, and lived in various towns of Khurasan, but never went further west, spending his whole life in the countries beyond the Oxus, in Khwarizm and in Persia, although he wrote in Arabic.
Bukhara and Samarkand are Persianized islands in the heart of a Turkic-run state.
Prince Kropotkin’s remark in the Britannica’s eleventh edition about the “mixed” nature of Central Asia’s population finds expression in the fact that as early as 1925, even before Stalin’s mish-mash of deportations, farmers in Bukhara could not say whether they were Uzbeks or Kazakhs or Tajiks or whatever.