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  Namangan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Namangan (Uzbek: Namangon), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan (1999 pop.
It is the capital of Namangan Province, in the northern edge of Fergana Valley of eastern Uzbekistan.
Namangan was known to have been a settlement in the 15th century and a part of the khanate of Kokand by the middle of the 18th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Namangan   (379 words)

  
 The Province of Namangan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Province of Namangan is situated in the northeastern part of the Ferghana Valley, on the right bank of the Syrdarya River covering an area of 7 900 square kilometers.
Namangan Province is rich in crude oil, gold, lead, copper, mountain quartz and antimony deposits.
The Namangan Province is connected to the city of Tashkent via the Kamchik pass.
umid.uz /Main/Uzbekistan/Regions/Namangan/namangan.html   (350 words)

  
 Namangan :: Uzbekistan. History, monuments and pictures of Namangan. Weather in Namangan
Namangan, city in eastern Uzbekistan, on the northern edge of the Fergana Valley.
Namangan has recently become a center for oil exploration and production in Uzbekistan and has a few oil refineries.
Fruits and vegetables are grown in the foothills surrounding Namangan.
www.orexca.com /namangan_uzbekistan.shtml   (287 words)

  
 Ferghana Valley. The serenade of Golden Valley. Ferghana Andijan Namangan Kokand --- Sairam Tourism
In mid-18th century Namangan became the administration centre of the viloyat.
At the beginning of the 20th century Namangan was the second city in Fergana valley as regards number of population and volumes of cotton processing.
In the vicinity of Namangan there is another big city Andijan, homeland of Zakhiriddin Bobur, a poet, the author of famous epic work "Babur-name", a statesman, a military leader who conquered India and formed the dynasty of Great Mogols.
www.sairamtour.com /uzbekistan/uz_05_07.html   (1920 words)

  
 BBC News | Despatches | Uzbek government siezes chance to crack down on Islam
Namangan is under curfew, militia are checking cars for weapons and large numbers of secret service agents have been drafted into the city.
Namangan is the biggest stronghold of the traditional Islam in central Asia, and President Karimov has blamed a radical sect for the killings.
Namangan is famous for its piety, and has very much its own character.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/despatches/49070.stm   (298 words)

  
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 Forum 18 Search/Archive
Rejecting their latest application, the deputy leader of the city administration wrote to the Muslims at the end of March that it is "pointless" to register the mosque, because several mosques nearby are already functioning.
Muslims from the suburb of Rafik Mumin in Namangan, a city in Uzbekistan's section of the Fergana valley, have complained that the authorities have repeatedly refused registration for a local mosque on various pretexts.
To illustrate his point, Halmatov pointed to Namangan's Abdullah Haji Ishan mahalla, whose residents have for several years been unable to register a mosque because the leader of the mahalla committee has refused to give her consent.
www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=50&pdf=Y   (788 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: UZBEKISTAN: CONT. LIST OF POSSIBLE POLITICAL PRISONERS, PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
He was arrested on December 6, 1997 when eight police officers came to his house with the authorization for a search and told him that he was suspected in the theft of auto parts.
A possible reason for his prosecution is the fact that Obidkhonov's son Rasulkhon reportedly studies in one of Arab countries and he has not visited his homeland for four years.
These prisoners were charged with the several Articles of the Criminal Code, including 154 (participation in the military conflicts abroad), 155 (terrorism), 156 (inciting inter-ethnic or inter-religious hatred), 159 (unconstitutional calls to overthrow the government), and 161 (organization of a criminal group).
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/021199uzbpris2.shtml   (2532 words)

  
 Namangan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UZ-NG Namangan Province (Uzbek: Namangan viloyati, Russian: Наманганская область) is a viloyat (province) of Uzbekistan, located in the southern part of the Fergana Valley in far eastern part of the country.
Namangan Province is divided into 11 administrative districts.
The capital is the city of Namangan (pop est 410,000 inhabitants).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Namangan_Province   (261 words)

  
 Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
NAMANGAN, Uzbekistan - After eating plov (a traditional rice dish in Uzbekistan) and a slice of watermelon, Nilufar Ismailova steps out of the office and into the unrelenting heat.
Based in Namangan, a city of over 350,000 people, Nilufar works with poor women entrepreneurs and helps them get small loans to start or expand their micro-enterprises.
In Namangan, where Uzbek traditions remain strong, the pressure to marry young and a start a family is overbearing.
globalenvision.org /index.php?fuseaction=library.print&printerfriendly=1&category=1&itemid=211   (947 words)

  
 Namangan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Namangan is about 430 km (about 265 mi) east of Toshkent, about 65 km (about 40 mi) west of Andijon, and about 75 km (about 45 mi) north of Fergana.
The North Fergana Canal diverts water from the Syr Darya to supply most of Namangan's water needs.
Namangan was known to have been a settlement in the 15th century, and a part of the khanate (state) of Kokand (present-day Quqon) by the middle of the 18th century.
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On December 2, 1997, an officer in the traffic department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was brutally murdered in Namangan, one of the largest cities in the Farghona Valley, which borders the Republics of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east of the capital, Toshkent.
Officially, the mass arrests were triggered by the murder by beheading in Namangan on December 2, 1997, of Vaqijon Obaidullaev, a captain in the Namangan Provincial State Motor Vehicle Inspectorate (GAI), a branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and reportedly the relative of an important local figure.
Two other people in Namangan -- Nobirjon Abdullaev, a former chairman of a collective farm, and his wife -- were reportedly beheaded on December 11, and on December 19 three policemen died in a shoot-out with a criminal suspect.
www.hrw.org /reports98/uzbekistan   (14244 words)

  
 Religioscope > Archives > Uzbekistan: Muslims fined for prayers in closed mosque
Six Muslims in a village in the Uzbek section of the Fergana valley, including the local imam, were fined after holding prayers at their closed mosque in February to mark the Muslim festival of Uraza Bairam (Feast of Sacrifice or Id al-Adha).
They say believers decided to hold prayers at the mosque because they had not managed to get to the nearest registered mosque, which is situated five kilometres (three miles) from the village.
Before the adoption of the 1998 religion law, which required all places of worship to re-register, there were 1,200 mosques functioning in Namangan region.
www.religioscope.info /article_132.shtml   (559 words)

  
 Bruce Pannier, Wahhabis—Fundamentalists of the Fergana Valley
The decapitation and death threat are more consistent with mafia activities, and Namangan does indeed lie on a well-known drug route.
The Uzbek government has always portrayed the country as the most stable in the region, so a mafia war or fight for control of power between local officials, would not be publicized by Tashkent.
For both the Uzbek and Kyrgyz governments, this may be the last chance to bring perceived opposition groups, and not only religious groups, under some form of control, before these new influences make their way to the northern areas of Tajikistan.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/53/160.html   (971 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: UZBEKISTAN: ISISLAMIC FANATISM A THREAT TO STABILITY?
According to information obtained by the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan (HRSU) and many other human rights activists in Namangan and Tashkent, there are at least 120 possible prisoners of conscience from the Farghona (Fergana) valley, who are jailed on what are likely fabricated charges, such as possession of narcotics and weapons.
Except for some reports of suspicious activities in 1994 by a few activists, which had no serious impact on the political stability of the country, and a couple of emotional statements from the same period, the democratic opposition has been non-violent.
Obidhon qori Nazarov, another respected and popular Islamic leader in Tashkent with roots in Namangan, who is also considered by the government to be "Wahhabi", was dismissed from the mosque where he was chief imam in 1995.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/120998uzbek.shtml   (4120 words)

  
 FANTASIA -> Uzbekistan -> Regions -> Namangan
The climate is continental, with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters.
The Namangan region is rich with crude oil, gold, lead, copper, mountain quarz and antimony stocks.
The area of important archeological finds in the north part of Ferghana valley is the village of Ahsikent, located 25 km away from province's centre Namangan.
www.fantasticasia.net /?p=319   (322 words)

  
 Namangan, Schema-Root news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Usmonov, is a former police chief in Namangan region...
to the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khorezm, Andijan, Namangan, Ferghana, Surkhandarya...
One of the Uzbek leaders of the movement was reportedly captured in Namangan (Ferghana Valley...
www.schema-root.org /region/asia/central_asia/uzbekistan/provinces/namangan   (1006 words)

  
 Namangan, Uzbekistan - Senior Fellow Job Descriptions - English Language Fellow Program - SIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Namangan State University has 12 different faculties, including the Departments of English Philology and Foreign Languages.
Work at Namangan State University, the Namangan branch of UZTEA, Namangan In-Service Teacher Retraining Institute and the American Corner at Namangan Regional Library.
Be involved in consultations with the Namangan UZTEA branch, as well as the branches in Andijan, Ferghana and Kokand, include offering teacher-training seminars to all branches.
www.sit.edu /elf/senior/eurasia/uzbekistan_namangan.html   (286 words)

  
 The Jamestown Foundation
The city of Namangan, located in the Uzbek part of the Fergana valley, became the center of "alternative Islam," and soon, this city became widely known in religious circles outside the republic as well.
The punishment of captured thieves and prostitutes was rather exotic, from the point of view of Western jurisprudence: they were made to sit backwards on a donkey and led through the city, while pedestrians spat in their faces.
Even today, residents of Namangan recall, not without nostalgia, that at that time, people could leave their cars unlocked, and traders in the market did not have to hide their goods for the night.
www.jamestown.org /publications_details.php?volume_id=5&issue_id=287&article_id=3224   (2106 words)

  
 [ru]Образование в Республике Узбекистан[/ru][en]Education in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Institution was founded in 1942 as a branch of Andijan Teachers Training Institute, and in 1944 renamed as Namangan Teachers Training Institute, in 1955 turned into Namangan State Pedagogical Institute.
Namangan State University offers various courses of study, including 26 bachelors educational programs, 20 masters specialization programs, 13 programs for aspirants, and 1 doctoral program.
Namangan davlat pedagogika instituti 1942 yilda Andijon o`qituvchilar instutitining shahobcha tarmog`i sifatida tashkil topgan va 1944 yilda Namangan o`qituvchilar institutiga, 1955 yilda Namangan davlat pedagogika institutiga aylantirildi.
www.edu.uz /modules/pasport/print.php?lid=22   (1186 words)

  
 Uzbekistan: List Of Possible Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience
In April 1992, a strike was organized in Namangan Machine Building Plant under the leadership of Vokhidjon Pattaev, the plant's chief manager.
NAMANGAN: Group of Prisoners Arrested and Sentenced after Two Police Officers were Shot Dead on March 24, 1997 in Namangan.
These prisoners were charged with the several Articles of the Criminal Code, including 154 (participation in military conflicts abroad), 155 (terrorism), 156 (inciting inter-ethnic or inter-religious hatred), 159 (unconstitutional calls to overthrow the government), and 161 (organization of a criminal group) of the Criminal Code.
www.eurasianet.org /resource/uzbekistan/links/uzrt916.html   (14448 words)

  
 Ўзбекистон инсон хукуклари "Эзгулик" жамияти   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Without exaggeration it is possible to tell, that the Namangan area, as well as other regions, has turned to a museum of infringements of human rights.
On November, 4, 2003 on area Chorsu of Papal area of the Namangan area about 10 citizens have organized picket with requirements of protection of the rights.
Have selected at them a dictophone and the camera, have thrown on the ground, put on arrested persons handcuffs and have taken away in a department of internal affairs of Papal area.
www.ezgulik.org /news.php?id=103&status=3   (346 words)

  
 Creating Enemies of the State: Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan: “Hate Rallies” and Public Denunciations
An example of the structure and content of a typical “hate rally” was the public denunciation organized by local officials in Namangan against forty-seven-year-old Omina Muidinova, her three sons, and other male relatives on April 5, 2000.
Held in the Namangan mayor’s office, the meeting was presided over by Deputy Mayor A. Lukmanov.
According to Judge Eronov’s verdict for the Namangan Province Court issued on June 29, 2000, the state accused Muidinova of maintaining contact with her relative, Akmal Ergashev, who had been on a police wanted list.
hrw.org /reports/2004/uzbekistan0304/8.htm   (4504 words)

  
 Religioscope > Archives > Uzbekistan: total state control over Islamic faith
Ironically, Islam is the faith in Uzbekistan that is most thoroughly controlled by the authorities.
As part of a major investigation to establish to what extent the Uzbek authorities exert control over Muslim believers, Forum 18 News Service questioned several dozen Muslims in Tashkent, Bukhara (western Uzbekistan) and in Namangan region (the Uzbek section of the Fergana valley, the most religiously active region of the country).
Another means of control over imams is their attestation, which takes place on average two to three times a year.
www.religioscope.info /article_157.shtml   (1418 words)

  
 Streets full of tortured silence - World - theage.com.au
The impoverished city of Namangan has borne the brunt of Islamist repression.
The tense hush that filled the empty back streets of Namangan spoke of the city's tortured youth.
One of the main cities in the Fergana Valley, the impoverished eastern side of Uzbekistan, Namangan has borne much of the repression meted out to Islamists by the central Asian state's regime.
www.theage.com.au /news/World/Streets-full-of-tortured-silence/2005/05/16/1116095903673.html?from=moreStories   (544 words)

  
 Letter From Uzbekistan
by RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN Namangan http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020121&s=khatchadourian The main overland route into Central Asia's Fergana Valley is the two-lane A373 highway in Uzbekistan.
Even within the devout Fergana Valley, Namangan is regarded as a place of intense social conservatism and piety.
In Osh, a two-hour car drive east of Namangan, Nosir, 37, a Hizb-ut-Tahrir cell leader who withheld his last name, explained that destroying the IMU would have little long-term effect in Central Asia.
www.islamawareness.net /CentralAsia/Uzbekistan/letter.html   (1506 words)

  
 Namangan - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
305,585), capital of Namangan region, W Uzbekistan, in the Fergana Basin.
A center for the production of cotton and silk, it also has food-processing plants.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Namangan" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-namangan.html   (241 words)

  
 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
He appealed the court’s decision, but on 19 September the Appeal Court in Namangan took 15 minutes to make their decision to reject his appeal.
Amnesty International considers Nosir Zokirov to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for carrying out his peaceful and legitimate human rights work and calls for his conviction on the charge of slander to be quashed and for him to be released from detention immediately and unconditionally.
           In 1993, when Nosir Zokhir was the chairman of the Namangan region of Birlik (Unity), which is one of the main secular opposition parties, he was arrested on what were alleged to be false criminal charges brought in order to punish him for his non-violent political activities in opposition to the Government of Uzbekistan.
www.geocities.com /dossier_tashkent_process_07/ai_zokir.html   (828 words)

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