Itchan Kala

Itchan Kala is the walled inner town of the city of , . Since 1990, it has been protected as a World Heritage Site. The old town retains more than 50 historic monuments and 250 old houses, dating primarily from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: World Heritage Site in Khiva, Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Ichan Kala” and “Ichan-Qala”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kalta Minor Minaret and Friday Mosque (Juma Mosque).

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Kaltaminor is a memorial minaret in . It is located on the front side of the Muhammad Amin Khan madrasa and sometimes considered as part of it. is situated 150 metres west of Itchan Kala.

Mosque
Photo: Carpodacus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Juma Mosque is a 10th–18th century in , . It is one of the principal monuments of Itchan Kala, the walled old city of Khiva, which is a World Heritage Site.

Museum
Photo: upyernoz, CC BY 2.0.
The Muhammad Amin Inoq Madrasa is an architectural monument in city of of the . The madrasa dates back to the 18th century and is currently located in the “Ichan qal’a” quarter, Zargarlar street, house 34.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khiva.

Photo: Euyasik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city of 93,000 people in the western province of Khorezm in the Republic of . Along with and , is an important and often overlooked historical site on what was once the Great Silk Road.

Itchan Kala

Latitude
41.3781° or 41° 22′ 41″ north
Longitude
60.3598° or 60° 21′ 35″ east
Open location code
8JH299H5+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 185036984
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q535577
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Itchan Kala” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة إيجان”
  • Asturian: “Itchan Kala”
  • Bashkir: “Ичан-Ҡала”
  • Basque: “Ichan Kala”
  • Basque: “Itchan Kala”
  • Belarusian: “Ічан-Кала”
  • Bulgarian: “Ичан Кала”
  • Chinese: “伊欽·卡拉內城”
  • Chinese: “伊欽·卡拉城”
  • Chinese: “伊欽卡拉”
  • Croatian: “Ičan Kala”
  • Croatian: “Ichan Kala”
  • Czech: “Ičan Kala”
  • Czech: “Ichan Kala”
  • Dutch: “Ichan Kala”
  • Dutch: “Itchan Kala”
  • Dutch: “Itsjan Kala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة ايجان”
  • Esperanto: “Iĉon Kala”
  • Finnish: “Ichan Kala”
  • Finnish: “Itchan Kala”
  • French: “Ichan Kala”
  • French: “Itchan Kala”
  • Galician: “Itchan Kala”
  • Georgian: “იჩან-ყალა”
  • German: “Ichan Kala”
  • German: “Ichan Qalʼа”
  • German: “Ichan-Qal’a”
  • Hausa: “Itchan Kala”
  • Hebrew: “איצ’אן קלה”
  • Hindi: “इचन कला”
  • Hungarian: “Ichan Kala”
  • Hungarian: “Itchan Kala”
  • Indonesian: “Itchan Kala”
  • Italian: “Ichan Kala”
  • Italian: “Itchan Kala”
  • Japanese: “イチャン・カラ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Iyshan qala”
  • Kazakh: “Ичан-Қала”
  • Korean: “이찬 칼라”
  • Lithuanian: “Ičan Kala”
  • Lithuanian: “Itchan Kala”
  • Macedonian: “Ичан Кала”
  • Maithili: “इत्चन कला”
  • Nepali: “इत्चन कला”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Itchan Kala”
  • Norwegian: “Itchan Kala”
  • Persian: “ایچان‌قلعه”
  • Persian: “قلعه ایچان”
  • Polish: “Iczan Kala”
  • Portuguese: “Ichan Kala”
  • Portuguese: “Itchan Kala”
  • Russian: “Ичан-Кала”
  • Serbian: “Ичан Кала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ičan Kala”
  • Slovak: “Ichon-Qal’a”
  • Slovenian: “Ičan Kala”
  • Spanish: “Ichan Kala”
  • Spanish: “Itchan Kala”
  • Swedish: “Ichan Kala”
  • Swedish: “Itchan Kala”
  • Tatar: “Ичан-кала”
  • Thai: “อีชังกัลอา”
  • Turkish: “Içhan Kala”
  • Ukrainian: “Ічан-Кала”
  • Urdu: “ایچان قلعہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ichan qalʼa”
  • Vietnamese: “Itchan Kala”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایچان قلعہ”
  • Yakut: “Ичан-Кала”
  • Yoruba: “Ichan Kala”

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