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Can someone help with the size of this image? Thanks~ 207.189.98.44 17:54, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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What on earth is "2.2 sw km"? sw == southwest? Is it supposed to be square kilometers? Always better to use km² for the square of kilometers. Kaleissin 20:15, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

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Are the pictures provided "before 1915" were really took before 1915? The photographs are excellent and seems to be taken not long before.

You did check the comments to the pictures themselves, yes? I think National Geographic had an article on Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii's expedition and his photo-technique, which in itself is more than interesting enough for an article here, IMHO. P.S. Please remember to sign what you say. Four tildes is your friend! --Kaleissin 19:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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I'm not surprised by the quality of the pre-1915 photographs (all those in the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection are of a similar standard) but is the first building (1912) actually in Samarkand? It is not one of the madrasahs surrounding the Registan (you can easily tell by looking at the top of the minaret) and the style is closer to that of buildings found further east, near Bukhara. Is it perhaps the madrasah of Ulugh-Beg at Ghijduvan? Sikandarji 23:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 What The.... 2 Daniel the Prohet 3 New Registan image 4 Vandalism 5 Zanarkand? 6 Russia's conquest of Samarkand: Correction Needed?

[edit] What The....

When I clicked 239 BCE, they said Editing -329. Um, I know 239, but isn't it BC? NOT BCE?

BCE stands for Before Common Era and is the more accepted term to BC. The reason it asks you to edit it is that there is currently no article about what happened in 329 BCE, that is why the text is red not blue. Bartimaeus 05:15, 3 December 2005 (UTC) ---

[edit] Daniel the Prohet

The article mentions Daniel as being an Old-Testamental prohet, but he is part of the Chetuvim, so in the strict (Jewish) sense, he is not a prophet. In the article about Daniel, this discussion is mentioned as well. Shouldn't this be edited?

[edit] New Registan image

I inserted a different image of the Registan, taken at sunset. It is massively impressive, but I'm not sure the old image, which had fairly grey looking buildings, quite did it justice. Jphollow 08:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Anon, please do not vandalize Wikipedia articles. I reverted the vandalism.Azerbaijani 13:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zanarkand?

I'm not sure if this is related or not, but a city in the video game Final fantasy X is called "Zanarkand." I'm not sure what the original Japanese is, but the "sa" and "za" syllables are very close and the "n" syllable is also sometimes romanized as "m," making it likely that there is a relationship. --Yoshiaki Abe (talk) 08:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Russia's conquest of Samarkand: Correction Needed?

In Peter Hopkirk's 'The Great Game', he cites General Konstantin Kaufman as leading Russian troops during this expansionary phase leading to the conquest of Samarkand and the Khanates of Central Asia. (Reference page 315)

Reference in current article cites: "The city came under Russian rule after the citadel had been taken by a force under Colonel Alexander Abramov in 1868".

70.8.172.95 (talk) 03:17, 10 February 2008 (UTC)