This name itself is not uncommon in Khorezm, and apparently goes back to those ancient settlements that legends identify with the pre-Muslim era. The largest Fortress of the Infidels belongs to Merv, the oldest city in Central Asia in the depths of Turkmenistan, but there is a legend about the Mizdakhan ruins that this was the city of Mazda described in the Avesta, and you even begin to believe in it, realizing that the religious necropolis was the cemetery of the city on a neighboring hill. In fact, as I understand it, the city of Mizdakhan has been known since the 2nd century BC, formed a "double system" with Old Urgench, having risen earlier and withered earlier, and there really was a certain large shrine of Zoroastrian times, where pilgrims were drawn from all over Khorezm. The Arabs, having conquered this region in 712, destroyed the local chronicles and in general all the texts in Khorezm that they could reach, but the holy place is never empty: a change of religion changed only the names of the heroes of legends in Mizdakhan, and the veneration of the ancient shrine, now Muslim, remained. Forgetting the original meaning, people endowed the graves with some new meanings, interpretations of the past "from memory", and even with an eye to new dogmas - hence the multiplicity and sometimes outright unconvincingness of local legends, which in no way interferes with the sacred awe.

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Yukhio

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It 's a bit difficult to get to the cliff itself .

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Баходир Болтаев

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The old town of Gaur. A great place to travel

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