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On the website of Turkey’s influential TRT AVAZ television channel, which is aimed at Turkic-speaking countries, a report was published about the activities of the Center of Islamic Civilization in Uzbekistan, particularly its efforts to repatriate historical heritage preserved in world museums and private collections. According to TRT AVAZ, valuable artifacts from the Samanid, Qarakhanid, Khwarazmian, Timurid, and Uzbek Khanate periods are kept in renowned art collections in London and other European cities.

During research conducted at Excavation Site XI of the Akhsikent archaeological monument, archaeologists uncovered significant historical findings.

In the time of Amir Temur, a quatrain by the famous Sufi scholar Abu Saʿid Abulkhayr gained great fame, and stories about its unusual qualities were passed from mouth to mouth.

In the 1930s, the “Great Terror” claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people. During the large-scale political repression of 1937–1939, fabricated charges targeted government and public figures, economic leaders, national intellectuals, writers, poets, scholars, statesmen, students educated abroad, and even ordinary citizens.