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Topic: Khorezm Province


In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Khwarazm Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It borders with Turkmenistan, Karakalpakstan, and Buxoro Province.
Khorezm Province is famous for its "gurvak" melon in Uzbekistan.
The Province is connected by rail to European Russia and the Caucasus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xorazm_Province   (356 words)

  
 Provinces of Uzbekistan
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 Khorezm is situated in north-western pat of Uzbekistan in the lower reaches of the Amudarya River.
The population of the Province is 648 100.
www.orexca.com /province_uzbekistan.shtml   (1378 words)

  
 Dr. Kehl, Krisztina - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology - Islam, shrines, saints, pilgrimage, Uzbekistan, ...
Starting in the province Khorezm in northwest Uzbekistan, this project deals with the question of how the changes the disintegration of the Soviet Union brought about in the religious and political field have affected people’s everyday religious life and the ways in which they define and express themselves as Muslims in a given locality.
The inhabitants of the province are predominantly Uzbeks.
The dialect spoken in Khorezm belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages.
www.eth.mpg.de /people/kehl/project.html   (1295 words)

  
 Uzbekistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Khorezm region is situated in the lower reaches of the Amu- Darya river among the boundless Kizilkum and Karakum deserts.
Khorezm is the native land of ancient civilisations.
The population of the Province is 1 862 000, with 62,3 % living in the rural areas and 37,7 % in towns.
www.informest.it /progetti/uzbekistan/english/dintorni.htm   (2631 words)

  
 Special Report: UZBEKISTAN - 19 December 2000
The geographic location of Karakalpakstan and Khorezm, not only at the tail-end of the river but also at the tail end of several hydro-electricity and irrigation schemes upstream, seems to have made the impact of the drought more pronounced in these areas than elsewhere in the country.
Uzbekistan comprises 12 provinces and the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan.
Khorezm, also experienced difficulties this year but nowhere was the effect of the shortage of irrigation water as devastating as in Karakalpakstan.
www.fao.org /docrep/004/x9188e/x9188e00.htm   (8315 words)

  
 Place:Xorazm Province, Uzbekistan - Genealogy
Xorazm Province, (Uzbek: Xorazm viloyati / Хоразм вилояти) or (Khorezm Province) as it is still more commonly known, is an administration division, or viloyati of Uzbekistan located in the northwest of the country in the lower reaches of the Amu-Darya River.
It borders with Turkmenistan, Karakalpakstan, and Buxoro Province, Uzbekistan.
The city of Khiva (city), Uzbekistan in Khorezm Province is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with world famous architectural monuments, making Khiva one of the main centers for international tourism in the country.
www.werelate.org /wiki/Place:Xorazm_Province,_Uzbekistan   (331 words)

  
 FANTASIA -> Uzbekistan -> Regions -> Khorezm
The total length of the Khorezm region's railroads exceeds 130 km.
Khorezm- was the ancient statement on the territory of Central Asia.
Ancient Urgench, the capital of Khorezm was located 200 km away from the present place of modern Khorezm.
www.fantasticasia.net /?p=318   (347 words)

  
 Master theses
Economic evaluation of establishment of tree plantations on marginal land in Khorezm: case of hydrogel and furrow.
Monitoring of soil macrofauna and soil moisture in a cotton field: an assessment of the ecological potential in irrigated agriculture in Central Asia (Khorezm province, Uzbekistan).
Study on the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizers for cotton in light and medium sandy soil in Khorezm.
www.khorezm.uni-bonn.de /unterseite_publications_mastertheses.htm   (865 words)

  
 Travel & Tourism in Uzbekistan - Tourist Sites in Uzbekistan
In 1740 Khiva was wrecked by Nadir Shah, and Khorezm became for a while a northern outpost of the Persian Empire.
Urgench is the capital of Khorezm province, 450 km northwest of Bukhara across the Kyzylkum desert.
This region borders on Turkmenistan (in the south), on Khorezm province (Uzbekistan) and on Kazakhstan (in the north).
www.sitara.com /Uzbek/tour.html   (7583 words)

  
 UNICEF - Uzbekistan - Real lives
A survey last year in the south-eastern oblast, or province, of Khorezm, in which Mahtumkuli lies, revealed that three out of every four children are sick.
Their illnesses are largely due either to the decline in the quality of drinking water, which is a result of the worsening ecological situation, or to a general decline in living and nutritional standards due to the current drought.
In Khorezm it's estimated that 98 per cent of women of fertile age are anemic, as are 50 per cent of children under fourteen.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/uzbekistan_1296.html   (800 words)

  
 Rory Mulholland, Uzbekistan's health nightmare
A survey last year in the southeastern province of Khorezm, in which Makhtumkuli lies, revealed that three out of every four children are sick.
In Khorezm, it is estimated that 60% of women of child-bearing age are anaemic, as are roughly the same percentage of children under three.
Last year's health survey of nearly half a million children in the province concluded that only 23% could be considered in full health.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/53/144.html   (566 words)

  
 Press Office
During this year the head of the farming entity Gairat Pulatov from Ghuzar District in Kashkadarya Province rendered a charity aid to 50 families and at the same time purchased four cows for the less-fortunate families.
Honorable veteran of labor Umurzok Kholmirzaev who lives in Kurghontepa Village of the Andijan Province is making a deserved contribution with his own funds and work to improve the local school and establish the garden around it.
At the same time, the medical facilities in Bekabod city of Tashkent Province, Baghdod and Toshloq districts of Ferghana Province as well as 310 countryside medical stations were provided with necessary equipment.
www.uzbekistan.org /press/archive/421   (4293 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cultural and historical potential The Khorezm and Karakalpakstan provinces have many natural, historical, and architectural monuments to attract ethnographic and ecology tourists.
The reasons are a lack of investments, problems with freshwater supply and health care, the ecological disaster of the shrinking Aral Sea, the low standard of living of the population, and underdeveloped transport communications.
According to experts, a majority of the tourist personnel in Khorezm and Karakalpakstan are unaware of the latest methods of organizing and running a tourist business.
courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/050Compecon/Soviet/Uzbek/050512tourism.txt   (610 words)

  
 The Province of Khorezm
The total length of the Khorezm Province's railroads exceeds 130 km.
The Province is connected by rail to the European part of Russia and the Caucasus.
The Province's Airline connects Khoresm to the whole Central Asian region, many areas in Russia and other CIS countries.
www.umid.uz /Main/Uzbekistan/Regions/Khorezm/khorezm.html   (356 words)

  
 Tourism in Uzbekistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The territory of the Khorezm Province and Karakalpakstan is strewn with plenty of natural, historic, architectural and archeological sites.
The Khorezm Province itself possesses near to 300 historic monuments.
In 2005 Khorezm was visited by 43,000 tourists, of which foreigners accounted for 19,700.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tourism_in_Uzbekistan   (2112 words)

  
 News and Events
It should specially noted, that these kinds of exemplary works are carried out not only in the capital, but also in all provinces and districts.
In particular, new clinics have been built in Kogon town of Bukhara province and Yangibozor district of Khorezm province, while a new maternity hospital center opened in Bogot district.
In 2005 we continued our activities in safeguarding the health of lonely elders and disabled, as well as the neediest, and this demonstrates that this issue is of priority attention to us.
www.uzbekistan.org /news/archive/311   (4513 words)

  
 LOAN: UZB 35496-01 | Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
Karakalpakstan and Khorezm are located in the driest part of Uzbekistan.
The main objective of the Project is to improve the living and health conditions in the rural communities in Karakalpalstan and Khorezm.
The Project will directly benefit about 700,000 rural population in Karakalpakstan and Khorezm, who are suffering from the lack of safe drinking water that has been worsened by the current drought.
www.adb.org /Documents/Profiles/LOAN/35496013.ASP   (927 words)

  
 Soglom avlod uchun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 2000, the Japanese Society of Diplomacy four medical ambulances was given to the foundation that was distributed to the first medical aid institutions of Bukhara, Fergana, Namangan and Khorezm provinces.
At the moment the health examination of the population is conducted in all regions of Uzbekistan with the help of the given ambulance that allows to lower percentage of a tuberculosis disease of the population.
The foundation renders the gratuitous financial assistance for reconstruction of Mothers and child sanatorium in Namangan and Ferghana provinces.
sau.uzbekworld.com /p_humanitarian.html   (649 words)

  
 UzA - Strengthening the legal basis of the development of Uzbekistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ilgizar Matiakubovich Sobirov was born on February 20, 1959 in Urtaiap Kushkupir district of Khorezm province.
He directed the provincial administration of justice in Khorezm province.
The chairman of the Committee on legislation and legal questions M.Radjabov, chairman of the Uzbek-Russian JV UAndijonkabel Yo.Odilov, orphanage #20 director V.Pak, Khorezm provincial hokim I.Bobojonov, Writers' union chairman A.Oripov, and Nuronii fund chairman E.Bokiboev all spoke in support of the candidature of I.Sobirov.
www.uza.uz /eng/news/?id1=7159&print   (582 words)

  
 Urgench Summary
It had an estimated population of 169,000 in 2002, is situated on the Amu Dar'ya River and the Shavat Canal, and houses cotton and food processing industries.
It is the capital of the Khorezm Province, on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal.
The city is situated 450 km west of Bukhara across the Kyzyl Kum Desert.
www.bookrags.com /Urgench   (412 words)

  
 RAPPORT SPÉCIAL : OUZBÉKISTAN - 19 decembre 2000
La position géographique du Karakalpakie et de la province de Khorezm, situés non seulement à l'extrémité du fleuve, mais aussi à celle de plusieurs emplacements hydroélectriques et réseaux d'irrigation placés en amont, semble avoir accentué les effets de la sécheresse dans ces régions, comme nulle part ailleurs dans le pays.
de la province de Khorezm, soit près de 600 000 personnes (44 pour cent de la population) ont été particulièrement touchés par la pénurie d'eau.
Au Karakalpakie et dans la province de Khorezm, le manque d'eau d'irrigation a fait fléchir considérablement les semis dont l'étendue est passée de 86 000 à 57 000 hectares, et de 36 000 à 29 000 hectares respectivement, pour une superficie cultivée totale de 126 000 hectares seulement.
www.fao.org /docrep/004/x9188F/x9188F00.htm   (7517 words)

  
 RADIO TASHKENT International. Commentaries 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In accordance with the presidential decree on the eve of the 12th anniversary of independence, Khorezm province has been awarded the order of Jaloliddin Manguberdy.
President Islam Karimov spoke, noting that Khorezm citizens work with confidence and heroism in the tradition of their ancestors, serving their motherland doing complex conditions, showing courage and high results.
In May Khorezm province hosted the finals of the Umid nihollar games in the new Khorezm sports complex.
ino.uzpak.uz /eng/coment_eng/coment_eng_0412.html   (240 words)

  
 Desalination of drinking water needed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"The situation in terms of providing clean drinking water in rural areas of Lebap and Dashoguz provinces is that [only] between 10 to 30 percent of the rural population can have access to it," Arslan Berdiyev, a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) project officer, told IRIN in the capital, Ashgabat.
A former resident of Dashoguz province told IRIN in Ashgabat that drinking water was indeed very salinised in his former home province.
The region comprises Khorezm province and Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan and Dashoguz province in Turkmenistan along with Kzyl-Orda and South Aral provinces in Kazakhstan.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=40769   (888 words)

  
 Press-Service of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In Khorezm province, the sports competition Umid Nihollari – 2003 for schoolchildren is taking place for the second time.
A new Center of artistic gymnastics was built in Khorezm as well as a professional college was outfitted for Olympic reserves.
In 17 locations of Khorezm province until May 20, the games will continue.
2004.press-service.uz /eng/novosti_eng/n05152003.htm   (193 words)

  
 ZEF - Staff
The case of cotton, wheat and vegetable chains in Khorezm province and their potential for developing agricultural sector
The main objective of the proposed research is to capture and map the value chains for selected agro commodities: cotton, wheat, vegetables and fruits in Khorezm region of Uzbekistan.
Assessment of the efficiency of irrigation water use in Khorezm.
www.zef.de /staff/437.html   (785 words)

  
 Contributions: Uzbekistan: Drought - Jun 2001, UNICEF Humanitarian Action: Uzbekistan Donor Update 29 May 2002, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is yet another problem against a backdrop of disintegrating social safety nets, and a crumbling primary health care system, which has been in steady decline over the past decade.
The Karakalpak Autonomous Republic and Khorezm province are the regions worst affected by the current climatic and environmental conditions.
The major objective of UNICEF's humanitarian interventions in Uzbekistan is to ensure, to the extent possible, the survival and development of children and mothers, and their right to quality health care in drought-affected areas.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ACOS-64C9TY?OpenDocument   (917 words)

  
 Soglom avlod uchun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The aim of establishing center is to assist youth to find their place in our society, provide them with employment, assist women and girls to get various knowledge, promote patriotism among the youth.
Currently more than 100 ill children residing in the ecologically disadvantaged regions - Karakalpakstan Republic and Khorezm province, have been prepared for operation and gradually being hospitalized in the central regional clinics of the region.
The humanitarian shipment delivered by AmeriCares early this year was distributed to the regional branches of the foundation, including Tashkent city branch with the aim of providing aid to the needy layers of the population.
sau.uzbekworld.com /news.html   (4172 words)

  
 LEAVING NO WITNESSES:
On June 8, while Iakubov was in Tashkent to meet with the head of the HRSU and with representatives of international organizations, including Human Rights Watch, men in plain clothes who refused to give their names or show any identification reportedly visited Iakubov's home in Khiva (Khorezm province) and questioned his son about his whereabouts.
Komil Nuralaev, a member of the HRSU branch in Khorezm, was temporarily detained by authorities in Jaslyk in September 1999 for his human rights activities.
In the following days, police in Khorezm province reportedly called Nuralaev in for two more interrogation sessions and then issued a protocol revoking his "exit visa," thereby depriving him of his right to leave the country.
hrw.org /reports/2000/uzbekistan/Uzbek003-04.htm   (14355 words)

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