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In this series, Lucas and Luna journey through the layered history of Uzbekistan, a land where Silk Road caravans once traversed the Kyzylkum Desert and where the blue-tiled domes of Registan Square still echo the glory of the Timurid Empire. From the Sogdian merchants who thrived under Achaemenid and then Hellenistic rule, to the Arab conquests that brought Islam and the Samanid Renaissance, each episode traces the rise and fall of kingdoms that shaped Central Asian identity. The show delves into the rule of Amir Timur (Tamerlane) in Samarkand, the shaybanid Uzbek khanates, and the brutal ...

"Turkey Says Airport Bombers Were from Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan" is from the June 30, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ceylan Yeginsu and Rukmini Callimachi and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)...