Ichan Qal'a
Also known as Itchan Kala
1700
Islamic
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Itchan Kala is the walled inner town of Khiva in Khorezm, a fortified rectangle of mud-brick walls about 2,200 meters in perimeter enclosing a dense Central Asian Islamic urban ensemble of mosques, madrasahs, palaces, minarets…
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- 1688
Late-seventeenth-century rebuilding under the Khiva khanate established the core of the Kunya-Ark citadel on the western side of the inner town.
- 1851-1855
The Kalta Minor minaret was begun under Muhammad Amin Khan in 1851 and left unfinished at his death in 1855, stopped halfway up as a thick turquoise drum.
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