Ichan-Kala

The inner town of Khiva is enclosed by a mud-brick wall with four gates facing the points of the compass. Within its few dozen hectares stand madrasas, minarets, mosques and the palaces of the khans, mostly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Khiva was the capital of the Khiva Khanate. In 1990 Ichan-Kala became the first site in Uzbekistan to enter the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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