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Tamerlane's Garden Cities: The Timurid Green Revolution
This episode of Fexingo History takes you beyond the battlefields to explore Tamerlane's lesser-known conquest: his transformation of Samarkand and the Timurid heartland into a network of lavish garden cities. Lucas and Luna discuss the tradition of the Persian chahar bagh, or four-part garden, and how Timur reimagined it on a colossal scale. They wander through the Bagh-e Dilgusha, the Garden of Heart's Ease, with its apple trees and turquoise domes, and the Bagh-e Now, where trees were planted as prisoners in the earth. They trace the paths of his captive gardeners from Isfahan…
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