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'''Konye-Urgench''' ({{lang-tk|Köneürgenç}}, [[Roushie leid|Roushie]]: Куня Ургенч, frae [[Persian leid|Persian]] ''Kuhna Gurgānj'' کهنه گرگانج) an aa kent as ''Konya-Urgench'', ''Auld Urgench'' or ''Urganj'', is a municipality o aboot 30,000 inhabitants in north-eastren [[Turkmenistan]], juist sooth frae its border wi [[Uzbekistan]]. It is the site o the auncient toun o '''Ürgenç''' ('''Urgench'''), which contains the unexcavatit ruins o the 12t-century caipital o [[Khwarezm]]. Since 2005, the ruins o Auld Urgench have been protected by [[UNESCO]] as a [[World Heritage Site]].▼
▲'''Konye-Urgench''' ({{lang-tk|Köneürgenç}}, [[Roushie leid|Roushie]]: Куня Ургенч, frae [[Persian leid|Persian]] ''Kuhna Gurgānj'' کهنه گرگانج)
Umwhile situatit on the [[Amu-Darya]] River, Auld Ürgenç wis ane o the greatest ceeties on the [[Silk Road]]. Its foondation date is uncertain, but the extant ruins o the Kyrkmolla fortress hae been datit (rather ambitiously) tae the [[Achaemenid]] period. The 12t an early 13t centuries were the gowden age o Ürgenç, as it surpassed in population an fame aw ither Central Asian ceeties barrin [[Bukhara]]. In 1221, [[Genghis Khan]] [[Mongol invasion o Central Asia|razed it tae the grund]] in ane o the [[Leet o wars an disasters bi daith toll#Individual battles an sieges|bloodiest massacres in human history]].
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Maist o Ürgenç's monuments hae completely or pairtly collapsed. Nouadays, the site contains three sma [[mausoleum]]s o the 12t century an the mair elaborate 14t-century Törebeg Hanym Mausoleum, which wis muckle restored in the 1990s.
The maist strikin extant landmark o Auld Urgench is the early 11t-century Gutluk-Temir Minaret, which, at 60 meters, uised tae be the tawest brick [[minaret]] prior tae the construction o the [[Minaret o Jam]].
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