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500px provided description: Early morning in Khiva near the town?s local bazaar, just outside the battlements walls which surround the old town Itchan Kala? traders have started to bring in goods for the day?s market, girls have started sweeping the streets, and boys run through the narrow zigzagged lanes on morning errands. The scent of breakfast being prepared in family homes wafts through the streets, calling out with the pleasing aromas of fresh bread, milk, and cheese. Adjacent to one of the city gates outside the wall bordering the historic city, this shopkeeper contemplates his day. The wonderfully crafted wooden columns you see on the left are hallmarks of Khiva artisans Khiva is a city of approximately 50,000 people located in Xorazm Province, Uzbekistan.

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