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Tashkent city overview
Tashkent is a city in Uzbekistan shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Airport baseTashkent International (TAS)
Known forTashkent, Capital city in Uzbekistan, Tashkent planning base 3, Tashkent planning base 4
RegionUzbekistanUzbekistan
Time zoneAsia/Tashkentlocal time
Founded300historical origin
City history
More than 300,000 residents were left homeless, and some 78,000 poorly engineered homes were destroyed, mainly in the densely populated areas of the old city where traditional adobe housing predominated.
Its center was Banakat, where dirhams of Mu'izz ad-dunya wa-d-din Qilich-khan were minted, in 1195–1197; and of Jalal ad-dunya wa-d-din Tafgach-khakan, in 1197–1206. Mongol conquest The city was destroyed by Genghis Khan in 1219.
Since 1518 Vasifi was the educator of the son of Suyunchhoja Khan Keldi Muhammad, with whom, after the death of his father in 1525, he moved to Tashkent.
The city was part of Kazakh Khanate between 1598 and 1723. Tashkent state In 1784, Yunus Khoja, the ruler of the dakha (district) Shayhantahur, united the entire city under his rule and created an.
The Trans-Caspian Railway arrived in 1889, and the railway workers who built it settled in Tashkent as well, bringing with them the seeds of Bolshevik Revolution.
During World War I, from October 1914 to March 1915, a group of Polish civilians from Warsaw was imprisoned by the Russians in Tashkent. Effect of the Russian Revolution With the fall of the.
In April 1918, Tashkent became the capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkestan ASSR).
Much of Tashkent's old city was destroyed by a powerful earthquake on 26 April 1966.
In 2007, Tashkent was named a "cultural capital of the Islamic world" by Moscow News, as the city has numerous historic mosques and significant Islamic sites, including the Islamic University.
Chinese sources suggest that a settlement existed here at oasis near the Chirchik River in the 2nd century BC.
The hill fort, Shashtepa, in the southern part of the city was constructed during Burgulik I and is believed to have been abandoned in the 7th century BC.
By order of Timur, the Zangiata mausoleum was built. Uzbek Shaybanid's dynasty period In the 16th century, Tashkent was ruled by the Shaybanid dynasty.
Far from being granted independence, Tashkent became the capital of the new territory of Russian Turkistan, with Kaufman as first Governor-General.
A cantonment and Russian settlement were built across the Ankhor Canal from the old city, and Russian settlers and merchants poured in.
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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