Etymology of Uzbekistan: "Home of the Free" from an amalgamation of uz (Turkic: "self"), bek (Turkic: "master", "bey in modern Turkish"), and -stan (Persian: "land of")
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Uzbekistan is known for Bukhara, which is 2,000 years old and is located on the Silk Route. The country is also famous for a 1500-year-old district-level city called Khiva, and Samarkand