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  1. City in Uzbek Republic, USSR; capital of
  2. Samarkand region, near the river Zerafshan,
  3. 217 km/135 mi E of Bukhara; population (1987)
  4. 388,000. Industries include cotton-ginning,
  5. silk manufacture, and engineering. Samarkand
  6. was the capital of the empire of Tamerlane
  7. the 14th-century Mongol ruler who is buried
  8. here, and was once an major city on the Silk
  9. Road. It was occupied by the Russians in 1868
  10. but remained a centre of Muslim culture until
  11. the Russian Revolution.
  12.