Kutlug Timur Minaret

{{short description|Minaret in Konye-Urgench in north Turkmenistan}}

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|caption = Kutlug Timur Minaret as seen in May 2006

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|location = Konye-Urgench, Daşoguz Province, Turkmenistan

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|height = 60 m (197ft)

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|built = 1011 AD

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|epochs = Khwarazmian dynasty

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|condition = Ruined

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| designation1 = WHS

| designation1_offname = Kunya-Urgench

| designation1_date = 2005 (29th session)

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Kutlug Timur minaret is a minaret in Konye-Urgench in north Turkmenistan, Central Asia. It was built in 1011 during the Khwarazmian dynasty. The height of the minaret is 60 meters with a diameter of 12 metres at the base and 2 metres at the top.{{cite web |title=Kutlug Timur minaret |url=http://www.tourstoturkmenistan.com/en/sights/kunya-urgench/kutlug-timur-minaret.html |website=tourstoturkmenistan.com |access-date=18 September 2018}} In 2005, the ruins of Old Urgench where the minaret is located were inscribed on the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites.{{cite web|title=Kunya-Urgench|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1199|work=UNESCO World Heritage Center|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=19 February 2011}}

The Kutlug Timur minaret belongs to a group of around 60 minarets and towers built between the 11th and the 13th centuries in Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan including the Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan.

On the basis of its decorative brickwork, including Kufic inscriptions, the minaret is thought to be an earlier construction but was restored by Kutlug-Timur around 1330.Golombek, L. 2011. 'The Turabeg Khanom Mausoleum in Kunya Urgench: Problems of Attribution, in Muqarnas. An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World, Volume 28, 133-156.