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 | | Kokand (or Khokand or Kokhand or Quqon) is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley. |
 | | In 1740 it became the capital of an Uzbek khanate (the khanate of Kokand) that reached as far as Qyzylorda to the west and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to the northeast. |
 | | 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 (Tajikistan). |
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