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The Uleg Beg Medressah and Mosque in the Registan complex. It is the oldest of the buildings, (by over 200 years) built in 1417-1420 The studies here included astronomy forf which Uleg Bek was accused of blasphemy and then assassinated in 1447.

  
     

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