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		The Province of Kashkadarya is situated in the basin of the Kashkadarya River on the western slopes of the Pamir Alay Mountains.
		The Province of Navoi is situated in the south-western par of Uzbekistan in the middle of Kizil-Kum Desert.
		The population of the Province is 648 100.
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	Fergana Valley Summary
		The Fergana (Farghona, Farghana) Valley, on the Syr Dar'ya River with an area of 22,000 square kilometers (8,494 square miles), is a fertile, densely populated irrigated valley in the southeastern part of Central Asia.
		The major dams in the Fergana Valley are the Nurek dam (constructed in 1980), which at 300 meters is the tallest dam in the world; the Baypaza dam (1968); the Rogun dam (1983), all in Tajikistan; and the Toktagul dam (1974) in Kyrgyzstan.
		The Fergana Valley or Ferghana Valley Uzbek: Farg‘ona vodiysi, Kyrgyz: Фергана өрөөнү, Tajik: водии Фaрғонa, Russian: Ферганская долина, Persian: وادی فرغا نہ) is a region in the Tian Shan mountain ranges of Central Asia spreading across eastern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
	www.bookrags.com /Fergana_Valley (2721 words)

	AllRefer.com - Fergana Valley (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The Fergana Valley, consisting partly of the very fertile Karakalpak steppe and partly of desert land, is drained by the Syr Darya River and by numerous mountain streams, which are fed by snowfields and glaciers in the mountains.
		Major cities of the valley include Fergana, Kokand, Andijan, and Namangan, in Uzbekistan; Khudjand, in Tajikistan; and Osh, in Kyrgyzstan; many of them are connected by a circular rail line, which also has spurs serving the mining settlements on the valley's periphery.
		Russian conquest of the Fergana Valley was completed in 1876; the region was then made part of a much larger unit called Fergana, which was a province of Russian Turkistan.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FerganaV.html (597 words)

	Ferghana - LoveToKnow 1911
		It is bounded by the provinces of Syr-darya on the N. and N.W., Samarkand on the W., and Semiryechensk on the N.E., by Chinese Turkestan (Kashgaria) on the E., and by Bokhara and.
		Afghanistan on the S. Its southern limits, on the Pamirs, were fixed by an Anglo-Russian commission in 1885, from Zor-kul (Victoria Lake) to the Chinese frontier; and Shignan, Roshan and Wakhan were assigned to Bokhara in exchange for part of Darvaz (on the left bank of the Panj), which was given to Afghanistan.
		The most important part of the province is a rich and fertile valley (1200-1500 ft.), opening towards the S. Thence the province stretches northwards across the mountains of the Tian-shan system and southwards across the Alai and Trans-Alai Mts., which reach their highest point in Peak Kaufmann (23,000 ft.), in the latter range.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ferghana (722 words)

	Fergana Province (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		UZ-FA Fergana Province (Uzbek: Farg‘ona viloyati, Russian: Ферганский вилоят) is an viloyat (province) of Uzbekistan, located in the southern part of the Fergana Valley in the far east of the country.
		The capital is the city of Fergana (pop est 214,000 inhabitants).
		Agriculture is the main economy activity of Fergana Province, primarily irrigated cotton, sericulture, horticulture, and wine.
	www.danceage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography/sdmc_Fergana_Province (180 words)

	Footnotes to History- D to F
		Dhofar- Dhofar is the southern province of Oman.
		Fergana, Provisional Government of- During 1919, the Muslims of Central Asia rallied against the advancing Soviet Army under the banner of the Basmachi movement.
		Fergana, the region of the earlier short-lived Turkestan government, was declared independent in the autumn of 1919.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natdf.htm (4714 words)

	Han Emperor Wu-ti
		While Chang Ch'ien was staying at Fergana, he was particularly impressed with the fine horses of Kokand which sweated blood and were believed to be the descendants of supernatural or celestial horses.
		Wu-ti's initial attempt to trade the Celetial Horses with gold coins was rejected by the king of Fergana and the Han envoy sent for the negotiation was murdered and stripped.
		This is doubtlessly a miniature of the horse imported from Fergana during Wu-ti expeditions in Central Asia.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/wuti.shtml (1513 words)

	Uzbekistan - ECONOMY
		Uranium is mined and processed on the slopes of the Chatkal and Qurama ranges that surround the Fergana Valley.
		Deposits are concentrated mainly in Qashqadaryo Province in the southeast and near Bukhoro in the south-central region.
		Located in the central basin of the Fergana Valley, the deposits could produce hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil in the late 1990s.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/uzbekistan/ECONOMY.html (3483 words)

	Kokand Summary
		The Fergana Valley had been an economically important part of Central Asia for generations, but had never been the center of its own state until the foundation of the khanate of Quqon.
		Kokand (alternative spellings: Khokand, Khoqand; Uzbek: Quqon; Russian: Коканд; Persian/Chagatai: خوقند) is a city in Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley.
		Kokand is 228 km southeast of Tashkent, 115 km west of Andijan, and 88 km west of Fergana.
	www.bookrags.com /Kokand (847 words)

	Здесь по-русски KOI-8
		The Emir of Bukhara accepted Russian suzerainty in 1868,and the Khan of Khiva did likewise in 1873.Three years later the remnants of the Khanate of Kokand were annexed de Russia, as the province of Fergana, made a part of the government-general of Turkestan.
		What is now called Kazakhstan was organized as the government-general of the Steppe Provinces, the Turgai Province and the Ural Province; and the lands to the South and west of the vassal Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva were organized as Tran Caspian Province.
		The provinces in the Turkestan region, with their 7.7 million inhabitants were richer and far more important than the other provinces.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5246/Turk1.html (1002 words)

	Uzbekistan Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		The Khiva oasis is irrigated by the Amu Darya, the fertile Fergana Valley by the Syr Darya and its tributaries, the Toshkent oasis by the Chirchik and Angren rivers, and the Samarkand and Bukhara oases by the Zeravshan River.
		The Fergana Valley, an important cotton, silk, and wine region, is also the site of oil fields.
		Uzbekistan was the ancient Persian province of Transoxiana, or Sogdiana, it was conquered in the 4th century B.C. by Alexander the Great.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Uzbekistan.html (899 words)

	Fergana Valley Travel Guide Fergana History Fergana
		Among other valley cities Fergana is believed to be one of the most Uzbek ancient cities.
		Its construction was begun simultaneously as Naw Margilon (New Margilan) - a colonial appendage of nearby Margilan.
		Along the fringes of the valley are deposits of oil, natural gas, and iron ore. Cotton and silk milling and the manufacture of chemicals and cement are among the valley's important industries.
	www.eastlinetour.com /fergana (538 words)

	Place:Fergana Province, Uzbekistan - Genealogy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fergana Province (Uzbek: Farg'ona viloyati / Russian: Ферганская область) is an administrative division, or viloyati, of Uzbekistan, located in the southern part of the Fergana Valley in the far east of the country.
		It borders the Namangan and Andijan Province, Uzbekistans of Uzbekistan, as well as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
		The capital is the city of Fergana, Uzbekistan (pop est 214,000 inhabitants).
	www.werelate.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Place:Fergana_Province,_Uzbekistan (280 words)

	Kokand \| East Site - Travel
		Kokand, is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, in Fergana province at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley.
		Kokand is 228 km southeast of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, 115 km west of Andijan, and 88 km west of the city of Fergana.
		In 1740 it became the capital of an Uzbek khanate (a state ruled by khans) that reached as far as Qyzylorda to the west and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to the northeast.
	east-site.com /kokand-travel (298 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was born in 1968 in Namangan, an Uzbek city in the Fergana Valley—the heart of Central Asia.
		The Fergana Valley was home to a large number of unofficial madrasahs, and children from all over Central Asia came there to study.
		Many Muslims in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and, later, the Fergana Valley were radicalized in madrasahs run by the Deobandis, members of a Sunni Islam revivalist sect that was established in British India in the nineteenth century.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/020114fa_FACT (5840 words)

	International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Uzbekistan
		Also in May 2001 the Roman Catholic parish in Fergana received an order from the regional Prosecutor General to close its Sunday school on the grounds that the school was an institution of higher learning and had not been registered properly.
		The Fergana regional procurator announced that he was conducting investigations into two more of the murders.
		The Fergana Province Prosecutor announced that he was conducting an investigation into two more alleged murders by NSS officers.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13990.htm (7259 words)

	Gutenkarte » History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir... » Chapter 37
		Since the usurpation of Firmus, the province of Upper Egypt, incessantly relapsing into rebellion, had embraced the alliance of the savages of Aethiopia.
		The treaty long subsisted; and till the establishment of Christianity introduced stricter notions of religious worship, it was annually ratified by a solemn sacrifice in the Isle of Elephantine, in which the Romans, as well as the barbarians, adored the same visible or invisible powers of the universe.
		The contest then became too unequal; nor was the valor of the hero able to withstand the power of the monarch, Tiridates, a second time expelled from the throne of Armenia, once more took refuge in the court of the emperors.
	gutenkarte.org /section/731/37 (4770 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		IMU supporters are basically impoverished farmers living in the Fergana Valley - in Uzbekistan a densely-populated area including the cities of Namangan, Andijan, Kokand and Fergana.
		The root of the modern problem is how the Soviet Union imposed on the valley a monoculture of cotton: the Fergana is still an endless succession of cotton fields fringed by mulberry trees and orchards and scattered villages.
		Innumerable proposals for the development of the Fergana Valley - for example by the United Nations Development Program or the Soros Foundation - have stressed the same point: this is an integrated area, a single valley where more than 10 million people live and interact, not three regions from three different states.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EK25Ag01.html (2678 words)

	Uzbekistan
		In March, several dozen residents of the Akhunbabayev District of Fergana held a public demonstration to protest local authorities' repeated refusal to register a locally funded village mosque, one of six in the area that have been denied registration.
		In April, a civil court in Fergana ruled in favor of a local activist advocating for the mosque's registration, arguing that the district authorities had unlawfully impeded the mosque's application.
		Following peaceful protests in the Akhunbabayev District of Fergana Province, a civil court in April ruled that local authorities had unlawfully impeded attempts to register a village mosque.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35493.htm (7261 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ferghana (Uzbek: Farg'ona or Farghana, Russian: Фарғона, the "land between two rivers") is a city (1994 population: 191,000) and the capital of Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley in southern Central Asia, cutting across the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, and Uzbekistan.
		Fergana was founded as a garrison town and colonial appendage to Margelan by the Russians after they conquered the Khanate of Kokand.
		After the Bolshevik reconquest of the region in 1918-1920, the city was re-named once again, as Fergana, after the province of which it was the centre.
	encyc.connectonline.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php/Fergana (618 words)

	Creating Enemies of the State: Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan: Family Members: Arrests, House Arrest, Harrassment
		Fergana authorities kept Sobitkhon and Umarkhon Nazarov in custody several days and then released them without charge, apparently in reaction to diplomatic outrage about the case.
		On May 4, 1998, Abdumalik, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, was tried in a Fergana district court and convicted on charges of narcotics possession and possession of falsified documents and sentenced to nine years in prison.
		Namangan Province Court Judge T.Z. Ibragimov sentenced him to eleven years in prison on charges of encroachment on the constitutional order and distribution of religious “extremist” literature.
	hrw.org /reports/2004/uzbekistan0304/7.htm (12005 words)

	- Andijan \| East Site - Travel
		Andijan, city and administrative center in far eastern Uzbekistan in Andijan province, at the southeastern edge of the Fergana Valley.
		Andijan was the 15th-century capital of the Fergana Valley, and in the 18th and 19th cc.
		The Fergana Valley's last local rebellion against the rule of the Russian tsar took place at Andijan in 1898.
	east-site.com /andijon-travel (227 words)

	The Twentieth Century in Uzbekistan
		The territory of Uzbekistan was divided into three political groupings: the khanates of Bukhara and Khiva and the Guberniya (province) of Turkestan, the last of which was under direct control of the Ministry of War of Russia (see fig.
		Following the suppression of autonomy in Kakand, Jadidists and other loosely connected factions began what was called the Basmatchs revolt against Soviet rule, which by 1922 had survived the civil war and was asserting greater power over most of Central Asia.
		In 1989 ethnic animosities came to a head in the Fergana Valley, where local Meskhetian Turks were assaulted by Uzbeks, and in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, where Uzbek and Kyrgyz youth clashed.
	www.eastlinetour.com /uzbekistan/new_history.html (1883 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Boys and girls in Uzbekistan
		In the centre of the valley is the city of Fergana.
		The social life in Fergana is a fascinating combination of western and traditional Uzbek cultures.
		Nowadays, famous for its beautiful landscapes and ancient history, Fergana is home to a variety of industrial and agricultural enterprises as well as to numerous cultural events.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=936 (1085 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Hequ Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Hequ is found in the Qinghai Province of China and is used as a pack and draft animal as well as for riding and racing.
		Dawan was the ancient Chinese name for the kingdom that included Fergana, home of the Akhal-Teke breed.
		The Kesheng is found in Kesheng Mongolian Autonomous Region in the province of Qinghai.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/horses/hequ (436 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Mountains of Central Asia - Overview
		The hotspot has many mountains above 6,500 meters in elevation, as well as major desert basins, the largest of which is the Fergana Valley.
		The hotspot holds a large number of endemic plant species, but water stress and civil conflict have placed much of its unique biodiversity under serious threat.
		The 300-km-long, 150-km-wide Fergana valley separates the Pamir from the Tien Shan Mountains, a complex series of ranges extending for 2,500 kilometers from west to east.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/central_asia (443 words)

	Residents mute five months after mass killings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Not only in Andijan, but in neighbouring provinces of Fergana and Namangan people have become more cautious and do not openly discuss Andijan events.
		Munojat, a 35-year-old woman from Fergana city, the capital of the province with the same name, said that the trial of alleged terrorists did not look very convincing.
		A human right activist in Fergana province who did not want to be identified, said that the authorities began closing local NGOs, which were receiving funds from the US government, US-based NGOs or private organisations as well as from other western nations.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=49538 (1232 words)

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