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	Margilan -2000 jahre alt
		Auch der berühmte usbekische Schriftsteller Abdulla Kadiri hatte von dieser Stadt in seinem Roman "Die Liebenden von Taschkent" sehr viel erwähnt.
		Deshalb wurden in den letzten Jahren auch in Margelan viele Lyzien und Berufsschulen aufgebaut.
		Seit kurzem funktioniert in Margilan ein neues usbekisch-turkisches Gemeinschaftsunternehmen "Margilan-Textil", das mit modernsten Technologien ausgestattet ist.
	www.uzbekistan.de /de/2006/d_n0211.htm (424 words)

	FANTASIA -> Uzbekistan -> Cities -> Margilan
		Margilan is one of the most ancient cities in Central Asia.
		Margilan is the silk capital of Uzbekistan, there are 2 factories producing the silk known all around the world.
		Things to see in ancient town of Margilan include the fascinating bazaar and the beautiful Khonakhah Mosque, exquisitely carved and painted in delicate shades of blue, yellow, pink and green.
	www.fantasticasia.net /?p=328 (319 words)

	Margilan silk's splendor and tragedy. A report from the Margilan Silk Factory - Ferghana.Ru Information agency, Moscow
		Margilan is colloquially known as the silk capital of Uzbekistan.
		Margilan satin was known throughout the world for its unique design.
		Margilan Silk Factory, one of the largest manufacturers in the world that used to produce silk by 2 - 3 kilometers every day, is running at 10% its capacity, these days.
	enews.ferghana.ru /article.php?id=410&print=1 (834 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Margilan@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Town in the Fergana wiloyat (region) of Uzbekistan, situated in the southeast of the Fergana Valley, 70 km/44 mi east of Kokand; population (1995) 145,000.
		Margilan is an important market town in the valley.
		It is also a centre of silkworm culture and textile...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100156756&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (125 words)

	Margilan Information
		Margilan (Uzbek: Marg‘ilon) or Margelan is a city (1999 pop 143,600) in Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan.
		Margilan merchants were key players in Central Asian commerce, and were said to be a law unto themselves during Soviet days, when Margilan was the heart of Uzbekistan’s fl market.
		Margilan today is also a stronghold of conservative Islam.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Margilan (324 words)

	Alumni Advisory Council (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Margilan is one of the ancient cities of Central Asia.
		Margilan's best known son is Zahiriddin Muhammad Bobur founder of India's Moghul Dynasty in the 16th century.
		Margilan is the third city in Ferghana region after Ferghana and Kokand.
	aacfer.freenet.uz /culture.html (3407 words)

	Margilan - Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Margilan - is in 20 km to the North from Fergana.
		Margilan today is a modem city of silk workers and traders with many government and private shops.
		Margilan market is especially original and interesting on Thursday and Sunday.
	www.voyage.uz /eng/margilan.htm (189 words)

	Tashkent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Margilan is in 20 km to the North of Fergana.
		In remote antiquity, Margilan was a center of carpet making, and a city of distinctive architectural traditions.
		Margilan today is a city of silk weavers.
	www.salomtravel.com /fergana.htm (462 words)

	Traditional culture and folklore of Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bukhara, Namangan, Margilan, Samarkand, Shakhrisabz, Kitab, Karshi, Khojent, Urgut and Khiva were famous with their textiles.
		Weaving was one of the main handicrafts in the cities of Fergana Valley - Margilan, Namangan, Kokand and Khodjent.
		Since 1976 small weaving handicraft enterprises have been revived by the Ministry of Local Industry for the manufacture of khan-atlas in Margilan and Shakhrisyabs, for the manufacture of atlas and bekasab of artificial silk in Kitab and Urgench and of janda in Baysun.
	intangiblenet.freenet.uz /en/uzb/uzb3221.htm (3955 words)

	SILK ROAD TOUR Monuments (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Margilan is one of the most ancient cities of Central Asia.
		Margilan was one of the biggest cities of Fergana Valley.
		He was answered: "Murginom" that means chicken with bread that was the reason of dubbing the city Margilan.
	www.srt.uz /english/uzbekistan/monuments/margilan (267 words)

	Ferghana Valley. The serenade of Golden Valley. Ferghana Andijan Namangan Kokand --- Sairam Tourism
		In the 10th century Margilan was already the biggest city of Fergana Oasis and was famous for its silk fabrics, which along the Great Silk Road were delivered by merchants to Egypt and Greece, Bagdad, Khorasan and Kashgar.
		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.
		New Margilan first renamed into Skobelev and subsequently into Fergana, was built in accordance with radial-circular system the centre of which was the fort constructed on the highest hill to the south from the city.
	www.sairamtour.com /uzbekistan/uz_05_07.html (1920 words)

	Official site of SINDBAD travel & tourism company
		Margilan is one of the ancient cities of Central Asia.
		The population of Margilan is 165 thousands people, the territory of city is 50 square kilometers.
		Margilan is situated at a height of 475 meters above sea level, in 15 kilometers to north from Fergana and Kokand.
	travel.albatros.uz /eng_firm.html (629 words)

	::: UZBEKISTAN: MUSLIM WIVES AND MOTHERS PROTEST AGAINST PRISON TORTURE :::
		However, police prevented the protest by blocking the road along which the desperate mothers and wives of Muslims were going to march.
		Local rights campaigners told BBC radio that as at today over 1,000 prisoners convicted of membership of the (banned Islamic) Hezb-e Tahrir party were serving their sentences in Margilan penitentiaries.
		Regardless of numerous assurances given by top officials of law-enforcement agencies that the situation with regard to the detention of convicts "has significantly improved" and their statements that there are no cases of torture in prisons, Muslims are continuing with protests.
	www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/ennews/2003/09/ennews16092003_g.html (284 words)

	Official site of “Armant” privat travel company. (Tours along the Great Silk Road, Uzbekistan, extrem tours, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The magnificent historical buildings of city Kokand have been famous since the 10 th century A.D., and from Margilan once started the silk caravans to Arabia.
		Margilan in fact came first by a couple of millennia (1st c.
		As legend says the name of Margilan is linked with the invasion of Alexander the Great to Center Asia in the 4th c.
	armant.uz /Uzbekistan (2035 words)

	- 2000th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Marg’ilon \| UNESCO.ORG
		Margilan has preserved its unique intangible heritage, expressed in such oral cultural forms as Maqoms (a musical mode in Asian classical music), Ferghana Askiyasi (Ferghana Humour) and Katta Ashula (traditional songs using plates to direct the sound).
		Through the activities planned during the anniversary, the cultural heritage of Margilan will become better known and the activities undertaken during the celebration will contribute to a further restoration/revitalization of the Great Silk Road and enable the promotion of intercultural and interreligious dialogue in Central Asia.
		Situated on the Great Silk Road, Margilan (originally Marginan) was founded in the first century BC and reached its highest point of development during medieval times.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=31185&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (456 words)

	Sibiuz Trans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The exhibits of the local Natural History Museum, created in 1896 as a branch of Russian Geographical Society, are the living history of the city.
		At the Chimion balneological resort there are centers for healing the nervous system, intestinal diseases, rheumatism, etc. The Chimion hot springs and mineral waters are famous among the faithful as "Holy Springs" and they attract piligrims from all over the Central Asia.
		Margilan, one of the biggest cities of the Ferghana Region, is the center of the famous Uzbek silk, hand weaving, embroidery, wood and Ghancha carving.
	www.sibiuz.uz /ferghana_eng.htm (435 words)

	IFEX :: Critic of Andijan massacre arrested
		She had been planning to depart Margilan for the Dublin conference the night of her arrest.
		on October 7, 16 police officers in Margilan stormed into Tojibaeva's house as she was preparing to leave for Tashkent, where she planned to catch a flight toward Dublin the next morning.
		In August, police also blocked her from traveling from her home in Margilan to Namangan to work on a case there, turning her back at a police checkpoint between the cities.
	www.ifex.org /eng/layout/set/print/content/view/full/69748 (888 words)

	Uzbekistan: Russian Cemetery Devastated
		The Christian cemetery in Margilan, a city in the Fergana Valley region, was established in the 1920s as a resting place for Russians who had arrived there as part of the Tsarist army, and for later Soviet settlers.
		Russians living in Margilan, most of whom have family and friends buried in the cemetery, are devastated by what has happened.
		Local resident Olga Sabanina told IWPR that earlier this year a group of Russians who had been Uzbek citizens before moving back to Russia visited Margilan to pay their respects to relatives buried there, but were unable to find the graves.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=rca&s=f&o=162821&apc_state=henirca2004 (1210 words)

	Weaving of Decorative Fabrics - Uzbekistan - Culture and Traditions
		Weaving was one of the main handicrafts in the cities of Fergana Valley - Margilan, Namangan, Kokand and Khodjent.
		Since the 1930s industrial enterprises started to operate in Tashkent, Samarkand and Margilan, and a network of small crafts enterprises began to be curtailed gradually.
		Since 1976 small weaving handicraft enterprises have been revived by the Ministry of Local Industry for the manufacture of khan-atlas in Margilan and Shakhrisyabs, for the manufacture of atlas and bekasab of artificial silk in Kitab and Urgench and of janda in Baysun.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/culture/weaving.htm (1401 words)

	Adventures in Reichelstan: Ruza Hayit
		We hoped that maybe the bazaar in Margilan would still be open.
		The streets of Margilan were still crowded with shoppers.
		Margilan is supposed to be an old city with some history behind it, but exploring that will have to wait for another day.
	reichelstan.blogspot.com /2004/11/ruza-hayit.html (1590 words)

	u k h u w a h . o r . i d [ f o r u m ] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The three officers from Margilan, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital Tashkent, were convicted after a monthlong trial at the Republican Military Court in Tashkent of murdering Alimohammad Mamadaliyev, 24, while interrogating him.
		The verdict came four months after a groundbreaking case in which four Tashkent police officers were each sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating to death a detainee and maiming another.
		In Thursday's sentencing, Khamidhoja Saidov, the Margilan security chief, and security officer Abdushukur Mirzayev were given 15 years in prison each, and security officer Babur Fazylov was given five years in prison.
	www.ukhuwah.or.id /forum/mboard/view.php?id=2002303000 (446 words)

	Fergana. The serenade of Golden Valley --- Tourist Gems of Uzbekistan
		Margilan, one of the most ancient cities of Central Asia, remembers the invasion of Alexander the Great.
		It is known from the historical sources that this great conqueror raided the territory from Khodjent to Uzgen and on his way back he crossed the town, which later was named Margilan.
		In the 10th century Margilan was already the biggest city of Fergana Oasis and was famous for its silk fabrics, which along the Silk Road were delivered by merchants to Egypt and Greece, Bagdad, Khorasan and Kashgar.
	www.sairamtour.com /news/gems/26.html (2020 words)

	[Margilan] \| [All the best Margilan resources at karaoke.velocityincome.com] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Silk Factory - Margilan, UzbekistanRather than taking the main road between Andijan and Tashkent, we detoured a bit to Margilan to do a tour of a recommended silk and cotton factory.
		Mary, Merv, and Margilan - Mary, TurkmenistanThese go by various names, but the two most commonly heard are Margilan and Merv (best known in the west for having been conquered by Alexander).
		MDG Outreach Campaign in Ferghana regionThe event at local level was held in Ferghana State University and in school #17 in Margilan town.
	karaoke.velocityincome.com /Margilan (750 words)

	FRESH ALLEGATIONS CONTINUE PATTERN OF REPRESSION IN UZBEKISTAN
		Since March, investigators have been tracking a number of security officials from Margilan who are accused of killing Alimukhammad Mamadaliyev, 24, in November 2001.
		According to Mamadaliyev’s father Gulamjan, a police inspector took the young man from his home on November 4; his body surfaced in the Ferghana Canal on December 5.
		The parents of another young male detainee say they heard a Margilan City officer of the national security services say he would infect all such "enemies of the state" with tuberculosis and have them die in prisons.
	www.eurasianet.org /lexis_nexis/4420.html (1001 words)

	Travel to Bukhara - Uzbekistan - Asia - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		The art of weaving still exist in the Ferghana Valley and, without a doubt, handcrafted cloth is still preferred to factory woven fabric.
		In addition to the silk factory in Margilan, there is also a new enterprise Edgorlic which has been established to revive the ancient methods of weaving varnished silk and semi-silk.
		Today it is actively developing in the town of Margilan.
	www.asiatravelling.net /uzbekistan/bukhara/bukhara_culture.htm (715 words)

	UzA - Pearl of Ferghana Valley
		Since old times, Margilan has played an effective connecting role of different areas of silk road cities, as a commercial and cultural center, which developed the prosperity of the city.
		Margilan was the place of origin of many scientists, state men and people of art.
		Margilan is famous for its beautiful landscapes and ancient history, Ferghana is home to a variety of industrial and agricultural enterprises.
	www.uza.uz /eng/news/?id1=6020 (257 words)

	Discovery :: Archive :: Arts Design (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mirzaakhmedov Turgunboy is one in a long line of crofts masters from Margilan.
		One of the first to open his own atelier in Margilan he today produseds some of the finest handwoven textiles in Uzbekistan.
		His innovative skill and perfect control over patterns, color harmonies, techniques such as abr (cloud), also known als ikat make him one of the most respected and reputed silk weavers.
	silkpress.orexca.com /archive/discovery/spring2003/art2.shtml (403 words)

	uighur-l Circling Around East Turkistan (09-10-2003)(1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The protesters were calling for the resignation of a district prosecutor whom they accuse of corruption and failure to prosecute known criminals.
		Tajibaeva was seriously injured in the attack, and was taken to Margilan hospital.
		Obidkhon Jamoliddinov, who works with her, attended a public meeting in Margilan, one of several organised across the Fergana region by officials from the provincial government to denounce the human rights campaigner.
	www.mail-archive.com /uighur-l@taklamakan.org/msg03927.html (1239 words)

	The Province of Ferghana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The administrative centre is Ferghana city which has a population of 214 000.
		It is also necessary to take into account the different levels of soil fertility.
		The Province of Ferghana has a ring railroad connecting Kokand, Margilan, Kizil and Kiya.
	zamin.freenet.uz /karta/vil_eng/fergana.htm (422 words)

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		Founded in 1876, and 20 kilometers from the ancient town of Margilan, it was christened New Margilan, then in 1907 became Skobelov, after the first military governor, and in 1924 assumed the valley's name.
		Whereas Fergana is relatively young, the history of other cities in the region goes back many centuries ago.
		Defined as the ‘town of the boar’ or the more enigmatic ‘city of winds’, Kokand lent its name to the powerful 19th century khanate stretching from the Ferghana Valley to Tashkent and the southern Kazakh steppes.
	wizard.freenet.uz /fergana.html (348 words)

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