By Dilbar Babajanova
Samarkand, one of the world’s oldest cities, a peer of Babylon and Rome, the oasis of the Great Silk Road and capital of the great empire of the Temurids, is celebrating its 2750th anniversary on August 25, 2007. Situated on one of the crossroads of trade caravan routes which played an important role in economic relations between the East and West, Samarkand became a center of ancient civilizations and historical and cultural traditions of Central Asian peoples many centuries ago.
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