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Shahrisabz
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How it came to be
Shahrisabz, once called Kesh, is a town of more than 2,000 years on the Silk Roads in southern Uzbekistan. Alexander the Great wintered in the area in 328 to 327 BC and met his future wife Roxana there.
Timur was born in Kesh in the early 14th century. After conquering Khwarezm in 1379, he began building the Ak-Saray Palace in 1380 with artisans deported from there. Only the base of its immense gateway survives. The Dorus Saodat complex, intended as the family's burial ground, was faced with white marble, as was Timur's tomb.
In 1437 Timur's grandson Ulugh Beg built the Kok Gumbaz mosque in honour of his father Shah Rukh. In 1870 the emir of Bukhara took the town with Russian help. The 240-hectare historic centre was placed on the danger list in 2016, after large areas of the medieval townscape were cleared in 2015 and amid concern over rising groundwater.
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