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Cities of Uzbekistan
Fergana valley
The heartland of Uzbekistan, as the valley of Ferghana is known, is the densely populated part of the country with a majority of ethnic Uzbeks. Ferghana is the most fertile part of Uzbekistan, with large agricultural output. The Chatkal range of the Tian Shan in the north surrounds the valley, with ...
Marghilan
Marghilan is one of the ancient city of Central Asia. Marghilan in fact came first by a couple of millennia (1st c. BC). Marghilan’s best known son is Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur founder of India’s Mogul Dynasty in the 16th century.
As legend says the name of Marghilan is linked with the invasion ...
Kokand
Kokand is a city in Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley. It has a population of 192,500 (1999 census estimate). Kokand is 228 km southeast of Tashkent, 115 km west of Andijan, and 88 km west of Fergana. It is nicknamed “City of Winds”, or ...
Nukus
Nukus (In Karakalpak: Nokis) – Uzbek city, the capital of autonomic republic of Karakalpakistan.
On 2nd November 1930 it was decided by the parliament to move the capital from Tortkul to Nukus due to water flows in Turtkul. In 1939 Nukus become the capital city of the republic of ...
Shakhrisabz
Shahrisabz means in Persian “Green City” and was known in middle ages as famous city of Kesh. City witnessed invasions of Persian kings Darius and Cyrus, army of Alexander Macedonian, Arab conquerors and horde of Chengiz Khan. People of Kesh time and again had fought against enemy invasions. In ...
Tashkent
Tashkent - the economic, religious and political center of Uzbekistan. Most travel involves entering and leaving Uzbekistan through Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.
Tashkent was the fourth largest city in the former Soviet Union but you wouldn"t know it with the sheep that wander the ...
Fergana
Fergana, city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley. Fergana is about 420 km east of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and about 75 km west of Andijan. Fergana has been a center for oil production in the Fergana Valley since the region"s first oil refinery was built ...
Samarkand
“Everything I have heard about the beauty of Samarqand is true – except that it is even more beautiful than I could have imagined”
Alexander the Great, 329 BC
Samarkand is perhaps the most famous city of modern Uzbekistan. The site of Samarkand was settled about 2500 BC. In times of old the ...
Bukhara
By L. Mankovskaya (Abbreviated edition).
Bukhara is one of the most ancient cities of Central Asia. Most of the historic buildings in this romantic Eastern city, which attracts tourists from all over the world, belong to period of the late Middle Ages. Nevertheless, numerous archaeological ...
Khiva
Khiva is ancient Chorasmia and later known as Khwarizm and Khorezm. It is formerly a large khanate (kingdom) of West Central Asia. Located south of the Aral Sea and is now part of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The ancient city Khiva is located in Uzbekistan and is famous for its many historic ...
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