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The name comes from the Iranian languages Persian and Sogdian samar "stone, rock" and kand "fort, town." [12] In this respect, Samarkand shares the same meaning as the name of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, with tash-being the Turkic term for "stone" and -kent the Turkic analogue of kand borrowed from Iranian languages.
The copy of the Quran is traditionally considered to be one of a group commissioned by the third caliph Uthman. According to Islamic tradition, in 651, 19 years after the death of the Islamic Prophet, Muhammad, Uthman commissioned a committee to produce a standard copy of the text of the Quran (see Origin and development of the Quran). [3]
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs: [3] [4]. Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 40 signs by 90°:
The final proposal for Unicode encoding of the script was submitted by two cuneiform scholars working with an experienced Unicode proposal writer in June 2004. [4] The base character inventory is derived from the list of Ur III signs compiled by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative of UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003), and Robert Englund.
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Afrasiyab (Uzbek: Afrosiyob),(Persian: افراسياب afrāsiyāb) is an ancient site in Northern Samarkand, present day Uzbekistan, that was occupied from c. 500 BC to 1220 AD prior to the Mongol invasion in the 13th century (see Siege of Samarkand (1220)). [1]
The Samarkand clan came to power in Uzbekistan in 1983 after it replaced the Ferghana clan. [8]Ismoil Jurabekov, the head of the Samarkand clan, is known as "the Gray Cardinal" because of his role in bringing Islam Karimov to power. [1]
Samarkand Region [a] [b] is the most populous region of Uzbekistan. [1] It is located in the center of the country in the basin of the Zarafshan River.It borders Tajikistan, Navoiy Region, Jizzakh Region and Qashqadaryo Region.