Samarkand
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Samarkand was a city in 13th century Cathay. It was the home town of Ping-Cho and her father, who was a government official there. (TV: Marco Polo)
Lady Sherade married a King of Samarkand. (PROSE: The Arabian Knightmare)
Henry Gordon Jago once owed seventy pounds to the seven-sword swallowers of Samarkand. (AUDIO: The Bellova Devil)