I learned over there that the 1,001 tales of Scheherazade in the so-called “Arabian Nights” were originally published in Samarkand. Very likely in that golden age.
However, the Uzbek girls told me that Aleksandr Makedonsky paused before invading India to take an Uzbek wife. And that Uzbeks with blond or red hair got that from Macedonian ancestors.
Xorosho......!
;^)
Arabian Nights are 100% borrowed from Shaherizada. A lot of other Arabian things are actually of Uzbek origin. As for Alexander many of them consider him Uzbek too, probably because he has spent a lot of time there(which is quite silly but you would find him on any Greatest Uzbeks list anyway).