Description
Konye-Urgench / Kunya-Urgench, Dashoguz region, Turkmenistan: Kutlug Timur Minaret - built in 1011 during the reign of the Golden Horde - at 60m tall it is the highest monument in Central Asia, decorated with Hazarbaf brickwork, with Kufic inscriptions - ruins of the capital of Khorezm / Khwarazm, part of the Achaemenid Empire, the First Persian Empire