Рубрика: Cities of Uzbekistan

  • Namangan

    Namangan is the second largest city in Uzbekistan, one of the glorious cities of Ferghana Valley. It is located in the northern part to 200 kilometers from Tashkent city. Namangan is situated at an altitude of 476 meters above a sea level and is used to be the administrative center of the Namangan region. This…

  • Nurata

    Without any exaggeration, one can say that Nurata is the most exotic city of Uzbekistan. And this fact is not connected with the variety of ancient monuments and historic sites. There are many times more of them in other cities of Uzbekistan, but there all this medieval beauty is closely interwoven with the infrastructure of…

  • Khiva

    Khiva — the successor of the great era.A legendary Khiva is considered to be a tourist «visiting card» of a modern Uzbekistan, a living heiress and the last capital of the great civilization of ancient Khorezm. Although the main «tourist sites» are quite «young” (XVIII-XIX centuries AD), however the town itself has a very advanced…

  • Tashkent / The Mausoleum of Kaffol Shoshi

    The mausoleum was built in honor of imam Abubakr ibn Ali ibn Ismail Al Kaffol al Shoshiy. The first burial vault was not kept safe. Actual mausoleum was built in 1542 by Gulyam Husain, who was Khan’s architect at that time. It is an asymmetric domed portal mausoleum — khanaka. Khanakas were erected to give pilgrims from distant…

  • Tashkent / Kukcha daha

    It is known in historic sources as the daha of Shaykh Zayniddin. According to researchers it originated from the word Kokhcha “a small fortress” in Persian. This name was given to the Kukcha Oqtepa (white hills) monument during the VI-XI centuries. Life in this Oqtepa continued until X-XI centuries. In the 80-s of the last…