Pilgrimage site · Beruniy District
Sultan Uvays Bobo Complex
One of Karakalpakstan’s great shrines
Archaeology · Qoraozak District
Jampyk Kala
Ruins of a fortified town at the foot of the Sultanuizdag: founded in antiquity, its visible walls date from the 9th–10th centuries, and in the 12th–14th it was a port trading in the Golden Horde era.
History
Jampyk Kala stands on the right bank of the Amu Darya on the southwestern spurs of the Sultanuizdag range and covers about 12 hectares. A rectangular citadel survives in the east, its mud-brick walls decorated with paired half-columns ending in stepped arches. The first buildings date from the 4th century BCE to the 1st century CE, but the walls seen today were raised in the 9th–10th centuries, and coins place the town’s last phase in the 12th–14th. In the Middle Ages it was a river port: excavations revealed baths, a craftsmen’s quarter, goods from China, Egypt, Europe and India, and Golden Horde coins. Sergey Tolstov identified the site in 1940, and excavations began in 1965.
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Nature · Beruniy District
Lower Amu Darya Biosphere Reserve (Badai-Tugai)
The great refuge of the Bukhara deer
Archaeology · Amudaryo District
Chilpik (Shylpyk)
A Zoroastrian “tower of silence”
Archaeology · Beruniy District
Akchakhan Kala
The capital before Toprak Kala
Archaeology · Ellikqala District
Kyzyl Kala
The “red” fort that guarded Toprak Kala