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  Kokand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kokand (or Khokand or Kokhand or Quqon or Коканд) 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.
Kokand is on the crossroads of the ancient trade routes, at the junction of two main routes into the Fergana Valley, one leading northwest over the mountains to Tashkent, and the other west through Khujand.
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 Encyclopedia: Kokand
Kokand (or Khokand or Kokhand or Quqon or Коканд) is a city 1994 pop 145,000)in Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley.
Khanate of Kokand was established in 1701 in kishlak Shohimardon by Minglar dynasty.
Kokand (or Khokand or Kokhand or Quqon or Коканд) is a city in eastern (A landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet) Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the (additional info and facts about Fergana Valley) Fergana Valley.
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 Kokand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kokand (or Khokand or Kokhand or Quqon) is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley.
Kokand has existed since at least the 10th century, when it was known as Khavakend and was located on a caravan route between India and China.
In 1876, Kokand was taken by the Russians, who dissolved the khanate of Kokand, while allowing the khanates of Khiva and Bukhara to remain as direct protectorates.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Khokand   (330 words)

  
 Kokand - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
From 1571-1626, the khanate was part of the emirate of Bukhara until it became independent in the middle of the 18th century and flowered in the 1820s and 1830s.
Kokand was the major religious center of the Fergana Valley under the khans.
The tsar dissolved the khanate of Kokand, while allowing the khanates of Khiva and the emirate to remain as direct protectorates.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /kokand.htm   (369 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Khanate of Kokand
The Khanate of Kokand is a formar state in Asia that existed from 1709-1876 within the territory of modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
He built a citadel to be his capital in the small town of Kokand, thus starting the Khanate of Kokand.
The Khanate of Kokand was declared abolished, and incorporated into the Fergana Province of Russian Turkistan.
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 Encyclopedia article: Kokand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
From 1917 to 1918, it was the capital of the anti-Bolshevik (A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party) autonomous government of Turkestan (A historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West).
Kokand is a center for the manufacture of fertilizer (Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile) s, chemicals, machinery, and cotton (Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers) and food products.
Kokand sits at the junction of two main routes into the Fergana Valley, one leading northwest over the mountains to Tashkent, and the other west through Khujand (additional info and facts about Khujand) (Tajikistan (A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet)).
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 Kokand :: History, monuments and pictures of Kokand
Kokand, city in eastern Uzbekistan, in Fergana province at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley.
Kokand locates on the crossroads of the ancient trade ways, at the junction of two main routes into the Fergana Valley, one leading northwest over the mountains to Tashkent, and the other west through Khujand.
Kokand n was the major religious center of the Fergana Valley under the khans.
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 Search Results for "Khanate"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It was the center of a powerful khanate in the 18th century and was conquered by Russia in 1876.
Important since the 10th cent., Kokand became the capital of an Uzbek khanate which became independent of the emirate of Bukhara in the middle...
It was the capital of the khanate of Shirwan until the 17th cent., and it passed to Russia in 1805....
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 Central Asian History, Part 2
The Crimean Tatar Khanate is absorbed by Russia.
The Khanate of the Kazakh Lesser Horde is abolished by Russia.
The Khanate of Kokand is annexed by Russia.
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 MSN Encarta - Uzbekistan
The conquered lands became two separate khanates, one centered in Bukhara, seat of the Shaybanid dynasty, and one in Khorezm, seat of the rival Yadigarid dynasty.
Meanwhile, the Qŭqon (Kokand) khanate was formed in the Fergana Valley in the early 1700s.
In the early and mid-19th century, the khanate of Qŭqon expanded into the Tien Shan mountains in the east and the Syr Darya basin in the north.
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 Taraz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rebuilt some 600 years later by the Khanate of Kokand as a fontier fort, it was taken by Tsarist Russia in 1864.
Written sources, of Paleo-Anthropological material that was collected in Kugans of Southern Kazakhstan show the existence of close ties between Taraz and the Aypchaks, Qarluks populations of nearby valleys.
As a result of interbreeding struggle at the beginning of 8th century Turk Khanate the tribe of the Ili River Turgish was divided into two branches Yellow and Black.
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 Bukhara (khanate) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bukhara (khanate)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Former khanate (emirate) of Central Asia that once occupied the region around the city of Bukhara, together with the lower Zeravshan Valley, and a large part of the Kyzyl-Kum desert.
The Bukhara Khanate came into existence in the 16th century, was brought under Russian control in 1868, and was finally dissolved by the Bolsheviks in 1920.
The Emir of Bukhara controlled the Kokand and Khiva Khanates until 1868, when they were captured by Russia.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bukhara%20%28khanate%29   (287 words)

  
 Uzbekistan August 9 News - Thursday - 2001
As is known, the Khanate of Kokand was established in 1702-1711.
Shohrukhbiy destroyed the reign of Chodak Khoja in Kokand in 1710 and established the Khanate of Kokand.
All the khans who ruled Kokand had pursued a policy of expanding the territory under their control, and the Khanate of Kokand had gained a vast area by the time of Olimkhon Ibn Norbutabiy, who was then the khan of Kokand, in the second half of the 19th century.
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 Kokand - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kokand
Kokand lies on the southwestern fringe of the agriculturally important Fergana Valley, and is a major transportation hub for the region.
Kokand was the capital of the Kokand Khanate, which was established in 1740, and was the last Central Asian khanate to be annexed by Russia, in 1876.
A settlement had existed on this site since the 10th century; the present city was founded as a fort in 1732 and was a major religious centre (with over 300 mosques) before the Soviet era.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kokand   (208 words)

  
 Ferghana Valley. The serenade of Golden Valley. Ferghana Andijan Namangan Kokand --- Sairam Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1876, after Kokand khanate had been annexed to Russian empire, in 12 kilometres from Margilan there was built a town which got the name New Margilan and which became the center of Fergana Region.
In 18-19th centuries it was the capital of powerful Kokand khanate, the state that dominated most of the territory of modern Uzbekistan and contiguous states.
In the violent history of Kokand the Khudoyar-khan palace that has been preserved to the present time, was the ruler's seventh mansion-house within only one and a half centuries.
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 Kokand Regional Studies Museum - Museum history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kokand Regional studies museum – is one of the ancient museums in Uzbekistan.
Museum was established in 1925 in the former palace of Kokand khan – Khudayarhan.
Kokand khanate history, Kokand – under the Russian empire, political reprisals of 30th years in Kokand, urban makhalla (literary means big street area), vegetative and animal life of Kokand oasis, cultural life in the XIX-XXth centuries, Kokand – after the independence – are all subjects of research works of the museum.
museum.dinosoft.uz /eng/index.php?name=history   (740 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: History of Kazakhstan
The Muslim, Turkic Kara-Khanid Khanate is not to be confused with the Sinitic, Khitan Kara-Khitan Khanate.
Russians were able to seize Kazakh territory because the khanates were preoccupied by Kalmyk invaders of Mongol origin, who in the late 16th century had begun to move into Kazakh territory from the east.
The Russians conquered the Middle Horde by 1798, but the Great Horde managed to remain independent until the 1820s, when the expanding Kokand Khanate to the south forced the Great Horde khans to choose Russian protection, which seemed to them the lesser of two evils.
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 Free encyclopedia kokand wikipedia khanate Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 Kokand --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The khanates of Bukhara and Khiva (Khwarezm) were established by two branches of the Shaybanid dynasty, which won control of Transoxania from the Timurids in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Originally founded in the early 19th century as the Kokand fort of Ak-Mechet, it was renamed Perovsk after its capture by the Russians in 1853.
In the same century, it became part of the khanate of Kokand and the centre of a...
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 Central Asian Khanates
The flag of the Khivan Khanate in the pre-Soviet period is unknown.
In addition, the "Kokand government" was situated in Russian Turkistan, the area under direct Russian control, and therefore it had a minor affect on populaces of the Khanates of Khiva and Bukhara.
Consequently the Muslim authorities in Kokand appealed to the Bolsheviks in Petrograd for aid but the response they received from Lenin's deputy, Joshep Stalin, was that if the Muslim population were feed up with the Tashkent Soviet then they ought to eliminate it themselves through force.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com
The area came under the rule of the Kokand khanate in the 19th cent.
Tatars -> Disintegration of the Empire Internal divisions, the expansion of Moscow, the invasion by Timur, and the appearance of the Ottoman Turks contributed to the disintegration of the Tatar empire in the late 15th cent.
Turkmenistan -> Land, People, and Government The desert lands of Kara Kum occupy 90% of Turkmenistan's total area; the population is concentrated in oases at the foot of the Kopet Dag Mts.
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 FANTASIA -> Uzbekistan -> Cities -> Kokand
In ancient time Kokand was the 2nd religious centre in the area after Bukhara.
Places to see here include the palace of the cruel Uda Khudayarkhana (1873), the last Khan of Kokand, which was completed in 1873 just three years before the Russians took power over Central Asia.
Also interesting are the Norbutaby Madrassah (1799) built from burned bricks and the biggest Madrassah in 19th century Kokand.
www.fantasticasia.net /?p=326&travel=Kokand   (199 words)

  
 Khanate of Kokand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Omar’s son, Mohammed Ali (Madali Khan) ascended to the throne in 1821 at the age of 12.
Shir Ali’s son Khudayar ruled from 1845 to 1858, and, after another interlude under Emir Nasrullah, again from 1865.
Tsar Alexander II stated that he had been forced to “yield to the wishes of the Kokandi people to become Russian subjects”.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khanate_of_Kokand   (541 words)

  
 History of Uzbekistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1876, the Russians dissolved the Khanate of Kokand, while allowing the Khanate of Khiva and the Emirate of Bukhara to remain as direct protectorates.
Though stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed, resistance groups called basmachi operated in the region reaching as far as the Pamir mountains until the 1930s.
In 1924, following the establishment of Soviet rule, the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was created from ethnic Uzbek areas of Central Asia, including most of the territories of the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate of Khiva as well as portions of the Fergana Valley that had constituted the Khanate of Kokand.
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 History of Uzbekistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1876, the Russians dissolved the Khanate of Kokand, while allowing the Khanates of Khivaand Bukhara to remain as direct protectorates.
Though stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed, resistance groups called basmachi operated in the region reaching as far as the Pamir mountainstill 30-ies.
In 1924, following the establishment of Soviet rule, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan wasfounded from the territories, including the Khanates of Bukhara and Khiva and portions of the Fergana Valley that had constituted the Khanate of Kokand.
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 FANTASIA -> Uzbekistan -> Cities -> Kokand
The town of Kokand placed in west part of Fergana valley is one of the oldest towns in Uzbekistan.
In 1709 Kokand became the capital of Kokand khanate - the biggest khanate of the time.
Modari Khan mausoleum an interesting sample of muslim architecture built in 1825 for mother of Umarkhan - the governor of Kokand.
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 Fergana Valley Travel Guide Fergana History Fergana
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.
Early in the 16th century, it was over-run by the Uzbeks, who established the Khanate of Kokand.
During the Russian civil war, the valley was the center of the anti-Bolshevik Autonomous Turkistan Government, with Kokand as its capital.
www.eastlinetour.com /fergana/index.html   (526 words)

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