| | Uzbekistan Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ TheLocalColorArtGallery.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Territory of Uzbekistan was populated in the II millennium BC. |
 | | Uzbekistan is a dry, double-landlocked country of which 10% consists of intensely cultivated, irrigated river valleys. |
 | | Uzbekistan had been one of the poorest republics of the Soviet Union; much of its population was engaged in cotton farming in small rural collective farms (kolkhozes). |
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