Khiva
Americannoun
noun
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Mirziyoyev has expressed hope of bringing prosperity by opening it up after decades of isolation under Karimov, including by attracting tourists to the blue-domed medieval Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva.
From Reuters • Apr. 9, 2021
The light faded from the clear desert sky, and though the green domes and blue minarets of Khiva were beautiful, I was beginning to tire of these museum cities.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
IN SAMARKAND, I felt melancholy, which followed me west to Bukhara and deepened in Khiva.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
The unforgiving logic of trade had reduced the fabled cities of the old Silk Road — Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva — to backwaters.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
It is reckoned that on an average a caravan employs from twenty-eight to thirty-five days of camel-marching to complete the distance of about two hundred leagues that divides Tuk Karakhan from Khiva.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
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