Guide to Kazakhstan
Must See Kazakhstan
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The revered Sufi teacher and Turkic mystical poet was born east of Shymkent in 1103, but lived most of his life in Turkistan until his death in about 1166. His tomb was already a place of pilgrimage when Timur constructed a grand mausoleum in the 1390s. Restoration work has been funded mainly by the Turkish government.
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- religious/spiritual, cemetery