BUKHARA

  

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BUKHARA

Specialty Definition: Bukhara

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bukhara (also Bokhara) is one of the major cities of Uzbekistan, capital of the Bukhara region (Bukhoro Wiloyati).

History

During the first millemium, it was located on the silk road trade route.

Highlights

The historic center of Bukhara has been listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites. It contains numerous mosques and madrassas.

A statue of the populist philosopher and wise man Nasreddin Hoja can be found on a central square. It shows him riding his donkey backwards and grasping its tail , as he is traditionally depicted.


citadel of Bukhara

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bukhara."

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Modern Usage: BUKHARA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Blagoslovennaya Bukhara (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BUKHARA

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BUKHARA

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Medresse Duan-Beggi (v Labikhauzie). Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sviashchennyi kolodez' vnutri dvora v Bogoeddinie. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detal' s lievoi storony Medresse Duan-Beggi. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dvorets v zagorodnom sadu Emira Shir-Budun. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stiennaia zhivopis' v nishie v Bogoeddinie. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grobnitsa Baian-Kuli-Khan. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Obshchii vid medresse Bogoeddin. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fasad medresse Bogoeddin. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kush-Beggi (Ministr vnutrennikh diel). Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

V zagorodnom dvortsie Emira Bukharskago. Bukhara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BUKHARA

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Business

Those projects include restructuring of agricultural enterprises, rehabilitation of pipe stations in Karshi, creation of drainage system in the region of Amu-Darya river and the water supply and sanitation project in Samarqand and Bukhara. (references)

Daewoo Unitel, Korean company with 100 per cent foreign capital, began its commercial operations on September 25, 1997. It works in gsm-900 standard and has approximately 20,000 subscribers, good coverage in Tashkent, Tashkent region, Fergana valley, Bukhara, Navoi and Karshi. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Chirchik, Yangiyul, Gulistan, Djizzak, Bukhara have only about 800 subscribers each. (references)

Uzbekistan

Other regional cities with high computer density include Samarkand, Bukhara, Fergana, and Navoi. (references)

Uzbekistan

In 1876, the Russians dissolved the Khanate of Kokand, while allowing the Khanates of Khiva and Bukhara to remain as direct protectorates. (references)

Minorities

Uzbekistan

Uzbek has been declared the state language, and the Constitution requires that the President speak Uzbek; however, the language law provides for Russian as "the language of interethnic communication." Russian is spoken widely in the main cities, and Tajik is spoken widely in Samarkand and Bukhara. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BUKHARA

"BUKHARA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "BUKHARA" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)93.75%1590,616
Noun (singular)6.25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: BUKHARA


1. Bukhara , Uzbekistan
Location: 39.48 North, 64.25 East
Population (2000 estimate): 278880
Time Zone: 5 GMT
Country: Uzbekistan

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Anagrams: BUKHARA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-h-k-r-u"

-2 letters: kabar.

-3 letters: arak, aura, bark, buhr, bura, haar, habu, hark, kbar.

-4 letters: aah, aba, aha, arb, ark, auk, baa, bah, bar, bra, bur, hub, kab, rah, rub, urb.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ah, ar, ba, ha, ka, uh.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BUKHARA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 55 4B 48 41 52 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    -.-    ....    .-    .-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010101 01001011 01001000 01000001 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#75 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 004B 0048 0041 0052 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36554542355235

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Cities
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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