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Ulugh Beg
The Astronomer Sultan
Samarkand
,
Uzbekistan
Samarkand
,
Uzbekistan
The Astronomer Sultan
The grandson of one of the great conquerors of Central Asia, Ulugh Beg, preferred the sciences. In 1428, he built a space observatory in Samarkand. His studies of the stars led him to name a crater on the Moon.