Konye-Urgench

Daşoguz Region · Turkmenistan

Konye-Urgench, Turkmenistan
Photo: Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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April to May and September to October
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The ruins of the old Khorezmian capital, scattered across a plain with towering minarets and mausoleums. Once a jewel of the medieval Islamic world, it was devastated by Mongol invasion and rebuilt in ghostly fragments.

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