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Kala citadel in Samaarkand.

VIP tour to Samarkand.

“We did not come to this world for long
And tears, sorrow and grief found.
We did not allow our knot troubles,
Gone are the bitterness in the souls”

Omar Khayyam.

 

Tours in the cities of Uzbekistan - Tashkent, Samarkand.

The citadel of Kala 1371 - 1372 It was founded in the western part of Samarkand Hissar on a natural height by order of Amir Temur, instead of the one that was located in Afrasiab in the pre-Mongol period. It was surrounded by a moat and a wall, the remains of which were still elevated in the XIX century.
Inside Kala, there were administrative buildings, gun workshops and arsenal, a treasury, a government prison, a mint.

 Enlightener:
http://vsemirnaya-istoriya.ru