Bukhara city lunch time with our guest from Mexico 🇲🇽
#registan #square #samarkand
#Termez - center of #Surkhandarya province ,located in the southern part of Uzbekistan, very close to Afghanistan. It is one of the driest and hottest points of the country.
Date of the founding of the city of Old Termez is not clear, but some of historians give more than 3000 years, officially there was a celebration of 2500years few years back. In the 6th century BC Achaemenids already called the city as the ancient city. In 329 BC Alexander the Great conquered Termez. After the collapse of his Empire, one of his colonels founded a Greco-Bactrian kingdom named Demetrius city. As part of the Kushan Empire in the 1st to 3rd century BC the city was called Ta-li-mi, in the Chinese Tu-mi or Tami. During this period, the city became an important center of Buddhism. Same time it was one of the main trade points of The Great Silk Road. In the 5th and 6th centuries the city was ruled by Hephthalites – white Huns. In the 7th century the city was independently ruled by local aristocracy. In 705 the city was captured by the Arabs and it became one of centers of Islam during the Abbasids and Samanids Empire. From the 9ththrough the 12th centuries Termez was a big city and a cultural center of the region. It was popular for shopping and crafts. At this time the length of the fortifications of the city was 10 miles, there were nine gates. During this period Termez was a part of the Ghaznavids, Seljuks and Karakhanids. In 1206 the town became part of the state Khorezmshahs. And in 1220 after a two-day siege, the city was destroyed by the Horde of Genghis Khan. In the second half of the 13th century Termez was restored to the east, on the right bank of Surkhandarya River, it was part of the Timurid Empire, after the collapse Shaybanids. By the second half of the 18th century the city was abandoned. Only few villages around were populated and existing separately.
In January 1893 the emirate of Bukhara gave the land of the village Pattakesar to Russian government to build a Russian fortress and garrison and, a military border fortification, where the Amu Darya river port was built. In 1928 already being part of the Soviet Union, Pattakesar was renamed
Besh 🖐🏻barmoq food made only in central Asian countries ❤️ . Have you ever tried it?
The same old Bukhara...🫶🏻
Pay special attention to the mountains of Uzbekistan. And don't forget, when you come to Uzbekistan, visit this place located in Chimyan! You won't regret it!
#mountains of #uzbekistan
Sometimes we face such situations 😄🫶🏻
Dance of Bukhara
Evening leisure time in a old city of Bukhara.