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"ref": "1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems",
"text": "Look ’round thee now on Samarcand! —\nIs she not queen of Earth? her pride\nAbove all cities? in her hand\nTheir destinies?",
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"ref": "1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems",
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"ref": "1977, Eugenie and Jeffrey Gross, The Soviet Union, page 393",
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"ref": "2010, Kamoludin Abdullaev, Shahram Akbarzadeh, Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan, page 316",
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{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Samarqand",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "Самарқанд"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "camarkantu",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "சமர்கந்து"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "Sämärkánd",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "Сәмәрка́нд"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "Saa maa-kan",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "ซามาร์คันด์"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "Semerkant"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Samarkand",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Самарканд"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "semerqend",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "سەمەرقەند"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"roman": "Samarqand",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "Самарқанд"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "Samarqand"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Samarcande"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "samarkand",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "סאַמאַרקאַנד"
},
{
"code": "zaz",
"lang": "Zari",
"sense": "city in Uzbekistan",
"word": "Semerqand"
}
],
"word": "Samarkand"
}
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