Bukhara is a modern city of about three hundred thousand people which contains within it hundreds of monuments to the city's heritage as a center for religious learning and political power. Detailed description
(also Bokhara and Bocarra) Uzbekistan 's capitol and a major trading center for tribal Turkish rugs. Turkoman rugs are commonly referred to as Bukharas, however contemporary rugs that are identified as Bukhara are often made in Pakistan . Bukhara rugs typically feature rows of repeating motifs or guls.
Turkoman rugs are referred to as Bukharas. The pattern most associated with these rugs is that of rows of repeated geometric motifs, or guls, woven on a red background.
The capitol of Usbekistan and the traditional trading center for Turkmen tribal carpets. Today, rugs called Bukhara are generally commercial copies knotted in Pakistan and India. Actual Turkmen carpets are called by their tribal names to ease confusion with their popular reproductions. Commercial Bukhara carpets are available in about twenty quality gradations, though surface appearance may be similar. Commercial Bukhara carpets are the best selling hand-knotted rugs in the world.
(Bokhara) For centuries, a center of Muslim learning and spirituality, and the principal trading point for Turkmen tribal carpets; many Turkman carpets as a result have erroneously been called "Bukhara."
Bukhara (Tajik: Бухоро; , Buxârâ; ; ), from the Soghdian βuxÄrak ("lucky place"), is the fifth-largest city in Uzbekistan, and capital of the Bukhara Province (viloyat). It has a population of 237,900 (1999 census estimate). Bukhara (along with Samarkand) is one of the two major centres of Uzbekistan's Tajik minority.