Silk Road II - Episode 12: The Glory of Samarkand
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Episode 12: The Glory of Samarkand
Open the sarcophagus of Timur, Great King of the Steppes. Then, stroll through the largest bazaar in Middle Asia - over 20,000 shoppers per day!
Wow... I was in Samarkand for 1 month this past summer and I can say not much has changed since this documentary. Now chevy cars are everywhere and after leaving the USSR there are adds for new Samsungs but it doesn't take much looking around to feel what this old world empire would have felt like. I would walk through the bazaar behind Registan and talk to old soviets, mostly Tajiks about their food and culture as well as do some bartering for spices or teacups to bring home. I really miss this place I truly felt as if I was stepping back 500 years, there aren't many of these places left and even Samarkand is changing and following the footsteps of Tashkent the more modern capital. I recommend anyone reading this to go, it is safer than most European countries, the food is fresh and safe, the people are so nice, most people some English, and the history is amazing. Go!!!!
Many thanks to the documentary makers of the Silk Road. I am 44 years old and I saw this documentary as a child and I was fascinated by it. I live in Iran. Thank you very much for managing NHK Japan.
I traveled to many corners of the world through the eyes of Japanese filmmakers and scholars, and thank you for that! Magnificent job!
Aloha >.plumeria. or you might call it frangipani.
Thanks alot for sharing this wonderful piece of history.
''Agar an turk Sherazi ba dast arad dele mara, ba khale hinduesh baksham Samarkand wa Bukhara ra''.
O Turkish maid of Shiraz!
If that Turk of Shiraz would captivate my heart
I will bestow as token gifts those jeweled towns of East. Samarkand and Bukhara
Hafiz Sherazi the persian poet
What a lovely 30 part series. Please keep it on you tube.
awesome, one of my dream is to visit all of those countries in life,thanks for sharing .
WOW Thanks for this video! I love my town, I am grateful to live just in front of Registan!
Do Uzbeks know Persian ?
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Beautifully done. Thank you so much
Thanks for uploading this masterpiece documentary about the silk road!
The music makes me feel nostalgic and makes me cry.
I don't know why.
I have no connection to those places nor ancestry.
Heck, I've never even been there.
BTW, I was the 59999th viewer.
In hope of becoming 60000th viewer, I reload it but failed.
Darn it!!!
lol
Love it 🎉🎉
Thanks for uploading these - it's fascinating seeing such places! I doubt you could do such a documentary today, and if you could, it would look very different in the 30 years that has preceded filming.
Thanks. I totally agree. I watched Silk Road 1 and then realised part 2 was not on youtube but my uni library had it, so I uploaded it. I never expected it would get so many hits. Especially happy about the positive comments from many people across Central Asia and the Middle East. They have so much history and much to be proud of. Also the many comments show a great knowledge of customs, language and history, sometimes making corrections.
Times certainly have changed. This is totally a lost period being during the Cold War and such. All the more valuable.
I thank you too. I watched Silk Road I last month and was delighted to find there was a second part, covering the rest of the road. Thank you very much indeed for the uploads.
Thank you Andrew for uploading this series!
The docu team has done an excellent job, and to have been commissioned in the late 70’s and early 80’s this is a remarkable enterprise! I respect how they’ve approached the common human experiences and pursued both the archaeological aspects and made efforts to uncover the links with there present. The austere lives, 60s and 70s cars trucks and food!
There is so much common in our daily lives and growing up days that one can associate with, from the food, the taught history, to clothes, language and even the sense of shifting ethnic boundaries. I am sure there were conflicts and wars even at the time of the filming, but with the intensity of mayhem and destruction of historical assets in these regions now, I wonder if there may be any similar effort. Unless perhaps there are nationally secured archives.
Strange, how you can see 2500 years ‘happen and change’ before your eyes, what a treasure!
14:30 "...not to be opened to the public," he says while opening it to the public in a TV series broadcast internationally.
such amazing beautiful buildings...
this music goes deep like nothing else
Music is the universal language.
Nobody else is going to say it so i will, "like my wiener!"
Thanks for the upload/ great history about things they never come back/ we can hardly imagine how it was to live like that. Mystery about strange times and cultures, back then even muslim was ok and sounds nice. >.going for the next episode.
Fascinating documentary
Amazing history thanks 👍😍
Glory to my Uzbek Turkic ancestors and homeland Samarkand
Thanks for sharing... The land of Tajiks
@Ryder no you are not. Temur is our ancestor. Sorry but tadjiks never had any conquerors
@Ryder if I have tajik blood than you also have uzbek blood right?
@Ryder no Iranians absorbed some turkic blood while Chengiz khan, Khulagu dynasty and Timurids rulled Iran for more than 400 hundred years. That's fact
@Ryder that's how persian speakers were made
@Ryder no Uzbekistan is 80% uzbeks, 10-15 % tajiks. Russians, Kazaks, Tatars
It's like a double dose of Time Travel.
Amazing region. Rich history that in the west is purposely not told.
Tajik lands
Could you upload the silk road by sea series. NHK did that one also in the 80's i believe.
What year this was filmed?
I guess during Soviet time. I was also curious to know that.
1983
Hi , do you have any Documentery about the silk Road in Syria ?
And as you can see the Japanese original?
In what year was it filmed the movie?
1981 to 1983
Thank You
And you relate to this movie?
Thank you . I bet its all gone and people are much different/ fucking war and asshole who thing power/ war and killing and burning is better then making love and holding hands. Great documentary. Maybe some people are still ok??
diese musik geht tief wie nix.
Why say "Sogds" for Sogdians?
anyone knows of the origin of the music
It's by a Japanese musician called Kitaro. Composed specially for the series.
prehisroric pic quality
What do we call this region? Middle-Eastern?
Central Asia
Persia.
@@maryb6074 🤣🤣🤣Persia is called Turkic land of azei and turkmen and Uzbek. Gypsies Iran has no land
😀😀😀
38:00
Who's watching this because they have a test tomorrow?
Jhangir amir timur was the first son of Amir timur.
35:45 :)
Samarkand en Bukara is the grand of afghanistan 1917 .
🤣🤣🤣🤔Afghanistan is complete belong to turkic people for 1000 years