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Situated at a major crossroads on the Silk Road, Uzbekistan over-indexes in culture, heritage and history. It holds a spellbinding array of architecture and ancient sites in cities such as Khiva, Samarkand and Bukhara, which were among the world’s busiest and most important trading centres for millennia. Uzbekistan’s glittering, tiled madrasas, towering minarets and sky-blue domes comprise some of the most recognisable and beautiful Islamic architecture in…