Samarcand,
- a variation of Samarkand.
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Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert, on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian, to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand, performed in the Year 1863.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
It is truly a marvel not only that Baghdad, Edessa, and Nisibis possessed Nestorian schools of divinity and philosophy, but that Christian colleges, seminaries, and theological schools flourished in Samarcand, Bokhara, and Khiva!
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Haarley’s poem speaks of Cossack and of Samarcand.
From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick
We climbed the mount, we grasped the hand, We looked upon the gracious face; We saw the wealth of "Samarcand," The Place, and Lady of the Place.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
The prince of Samarcand," pursued he, "lived happily at his father's court.
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia
