The Samarkand klan (alternatively Samarqand) is an Uzbek clan led by Ismoil Jurabekov.[1] The clan is one of two major clans in Uzbekistan;[1] the other, its main rival, is the Tashkent clan.[2] To a lesser extent, the Ferghana clan is also a rival.[3] Former Uzbek President Islam Karimov and current President Shavkat Mirziyoyev come from the Samarkand clan.[4]
^ abCollins, p. 255
^Blagov, Sergei. Uzbek strongman under Russian attack. Asia Times. 13 March 2003. Accessed 24 June 2009.
^Sengupta, p. 286
^Uzbekistan: Karimov Appears To Have Political Clans Firmly In Hand . RFE/RL. 31 August 2006. Accessed 24 June 2009.
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of the vote and will serve a second five-year term. A member of the Samarkandclan, he was considered to be one of the leading potential successors to...
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with the Karakhanids, then advanced to Samarkand. In 1141, the Seljuks under Ahmad Sanjar also arrived in Samarkand with his army, but was defeated by the...
rivers. At this time, cities such as Bukhoro (Bukhara) and Samarqand (Samarkand) emerged as centres of government and high culture. By the fifth century...
Iasy (present-day Turkistan), forcing the Uzbeks to retreat south to Samarkand and Bukhara. In 1480, Kerei Khan's son Burunduk became khan. During his...
delegations on a number of occasions. Both the Ming Empire's envoy to Samarkand and Herat, Chen Cheng, and his counterpart, Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, recorded...
706–709, Khwarazm and Samarkand in 711–712 and Farghana in 713. He established Arab garrisons and tax administrations in Samarkand and Bukhara and demolished...
written by the Sogdian, Nanai-vandak, addressed to his people back home in Samarkand informing them about the upheaval. He claimed that every single one of...
century CE murals of Afrasiab in Samarkand. The Chinese delegates (left in the mural) form an embassy to the king of Samarkand, carrying silk and a string...
designate the supreme ruler (Khan), the oldest member of clan. The seat of Khan was first Samarkand, the capital of the Timurids, but some of the Khans preferred...
Karakhanids at Samarkand, Kuchlug took the chance to rebel against his father-in-law, seizing the empire's treasury at Uzgen. Yelü Zhilugu left Samarkand to deal...
attempted to punish them, causing a migration of Jews from Bukhara to Samarkand, Tashkent, and other Turkistan cities. Unlike the Jews of Eastern Europe...
mountains of his land. When he had abandoned all hope, a saint, Sergius of Samarkand, appeared in a vision and said, "If you will believe in Christ, I will...
the star that symbolizes Al-Fatiha Symbol of Hokkaido Coat of arms of Samarkand Commonwealth Star as the crest of Coat of Arms of Australia The flag of...
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