Culture of Samarkand

In Corto Maltese graphical novels by Hugo Pratt one episode is titled "The Golden House of Samarkand"

The fictional city of Zanarkand in the Final Fantasy series, used Samarkand as inspiration.

Samarkand is the name of a continent in the Fable fictional universe, though it is more based on Africa and the Orient than Central Asia.

For part of the history espoused in Clive Barker's novel Galilee, the city of Samarkand is held as a shining light of humanity, and one of the characters longs to go there.

'Trębacz z Samarkandy' (The Trumpeter of Samarkand) a short story by Ksawery Pruszyński set during the Second World War, inspired by a Polish legend.

In The Venetian Betrayal, Samarkand was the world's most powerful city and the "cradle of civilization".

The objective of the fourth mission in the Genghis Khan campaign of the video game Age of Empires 2 is to destroy the city of Samarkand.

Lord of Samarcand is a work of historical fiction by Robert E. Howard.

An ice-world in Gridlinked, part of Neal Asher's Polity Universe.

The location of the rose of the DeVirga World Map on the 39 clues.

In Sergei Lukyanenko's The Last Watch, main character Anton Gorodetsky visits Samarkand as part of his investigation and the city's landmarks feature heavily.

Poetry, drama and film

Samarkand can appear as an archetype of romantic