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	Termez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Termez (Termiz in Uzbek; Termes in German) is a city in southern Uzbekistan near the border with Afghanistan.
		It has a population of 140.404 (1 January 2005), and is the capital of the Surxondaryo Province.
		Termez was a primary transit point during the Soviet occupation (1979-89) of Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Termiz (270 words)

	Termez. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The temperature rises as high as 122°F (50°C) in Termez, one of the hottest cities in central Asia.
		B.C., Termez later developed as a river port and feudal trade center.
		Termez was a primary transit point during the Soviet occupation (1979–89) of Afghanistan.
	www.bartleby.com /65/te/Termez.html (171 words)

	"TERMEZ ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM"
		From this period up to the end of the 9th century that is to the joining of Northern Tokharistan to the state of Samanides the processes taking place social-economic and cultural life of this land, were developed in the close relation with countries of the Moslem world.
		Beginning with the 2nd half of 8th century in Maverannahr in particular in Termez and Chaganian the process of formation of Islam culture is observed.
		As well as in Termez and Chaganian, the blocks of craftsmen were studied in rural areas (in the villages).
	archaeomuseum.freenet.uz /7e.htm (563 words)

	Uzbekistan
		TERMEZ, Uzbekistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) — Life on the Uzbek side of the Amu Darya River bustles, in vivid contrast to the portrait of hardship emerging across the river in neighboring Afghanistan.
		In Termez, Uzbekistan, the night clubs and bars hustle long into the night, their customers drinking the alcohol that could earn them a public lashing across the river.
		Termez was a closed city when the Soviet Union's army occupied Afghanistan.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5511-9.cfm (630 words)

	UN keeps humanitarian pipeline in Termez open during winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Termez, once a major supply route for the Red Army during Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, still has a well-equipped aid delivery infrastructure, including a port warehouse, which can accommodate up to 20,000 mt of cargo.
		According to the WFP official, the Termez office remains important for the UN food agency that is now transporting a total 1,637 mt of biscuits to Afghanistan, 200 mt of which had already been sent last week.
		As traffic becomes intense over the Friendship Bridge UN agencies located in Termez conducted several trainings for Uzbek border guards to improve the border crossing procedures and familiarise them with the activity of international organisations, international regulations and human rights for the past years.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39530 (738 words)

	Ancient Termez --- Sairam Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Old Termez was formed on the right side of the Djaikhun - Amu-Darya in a place convenient to cross the river, at the intersection of Great Silk Road routes, five kilometres to the northwest from the city of Termez.
		This compound ensemble was being built within 5 centuries, from the 9th century to the 14th century, and is a kind of peculiar museum of the medieval architecture.
		Khasan al Emir, the founder of Seyid's clan in Termez, is buried in the northern mausoleum.
	www.sairamtour.com /uz/uz_05_06.html (1678 words)

	Sunday, November 11, 2001
		TERMEZ, Uzbekistan — Tons of food and other supplies continue to pile up in Termez as humanitarian aid workers wait for Uzbekistan’s border with Afghanistan to open.
		An Uzbek soldier guards the runway in Termez as workers unload UNICEF humanitarian aid packets from a plane that arrived Thursday from Copenhagen.
		From the Termez airport, the aid was shipped in large trucks to a holding facility near the Termez port.
	www.stripes.com /01/nov01/ed111101j.html (544 words)

	Termez on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TERMEZ, UZBEKISTAN -- UN relief coordinator Richard Conroy speaks at a news conference Sunday, November 11, 2001, on providing aid for Afghanistan through Uzbekistan.
		TERMEZ, UZBEKISTAN -- A guard walks buy bags of wheat being loaded onto a barge for transport to Afghanistan for United Nations' relief efforts Monday, November 12, 2001.
		TERMEZ, UZBEKISTAN -- Workers load bags of wheat onto a barge for transport to Afghanistan for United Nations' relief efforts Monday, November 12, 2001.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Termez.asp (692 words)

	Uzbekistan: Border Town Prepares For U.S. Strikes On Afghanistan
		Journalists have flooded Termez in anticipation of U.S.-led air strikes against its southern neighbor, and residents of the town talk of little else.
		Termez is located just 60 kms from Mazar-i-Sharif, a key Afghan city captured by the Taliban in 1997.
		Termez officials have promised to keep residents informed of any imminent arrival of U.S. troops.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/538289/posts (926 words)

	Travel to Termez with AVRUD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Termez has played the role of political and cultural chameleon, switching roles, religions, allegiances and even locations with the consummate ease of a circus performer.
		For the last 80 years Termez has been one of the furthest and most sensitively sealed outpost of the Soviet empire, enforcing an unnatural religious cutoff point between Islam and atheism.
		The modern traveler who comes to taste the sheer variety of its of excitement that comes from such proximity to the Oxus and Afghan border can rest assured that he is one of the first.
	www.uztravel.com /en/cities-Termez.html (153 words)

	Saturday, October 27, 2001
		Farhod Makhamadiv, a logistics assistant with the United Nations in Termez, Uzbekistan, shows some bars of soap that will be sent to displaced people in neighboring Afghanistan.
		TERMEZ, Uzbekistan — Now that Uzbekistan has agreed to partially open its border for humanitarian aid shipments to Afghanistan, the real work begins, United Nations officials said.
		Now, the United Nations is adding staff and supplies in Termez and trying to figure out the logistics of moving the aid.
	www.stripes.com /01/oct01/ed102701i.html (680 words)

	Aid Agencies Prepare for 'Anarchy' in Afghanistan
		TERMEZ, Uzbekistan -- Relief worker Mohammed Kumba Kumba had a rifle stuck in his ribs in Cambodia and spent long enough in Kosovo to understand the dangers of working where chaos reigns.
		Officials have checked the barges and inspected the facilities at the Termez airport in anticipation of moving thousands of tons of supplies to help an estimated 6 million Afghans that the United Nations says are in need of humanitarian aid because of drought and war.
		For now, Termez continues to be divorced from the river on which it was founded.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines01/1029-06.htm (1152 words)

	Uzbek Border Closed To Afghan Aid
		TERMEZ, Uzbekistan (AP) - Therapeutic milk for malnourished Afghan children sat locked in a warehouse Wednesday, with aid groups leaving town, security restrictions tightening and a route vital for transporting food and medicine into the heart of northern Afghanistan closed.
		Compounding the difficulties in the north, Termez officials said Wednesday that the city would be restricted to only residents or holders of a special pass starting next month.
		Termez was closed during Soviet times because of the military operations run from here in Afghanistan and remained off-limits to tourists even well after Uzbekistan's 1991 independence.
	www.ccmep.org /hotnews/uzbek112201.html (744 words)

	JS Online: Uzbek Town Hopes for Renewed Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TERMEZ, Uzbekistan - Cargo cranes hang lifelessly at the defunct river port in this Uzbek border town, a lingering reminder of a once-bustling trade with Afghanistan.
		Termez is now isolated at Uzbekistan's southern tip, a seven-hour drive from the capital Tashkent, with no direct rail links between the two cities.
		At the Termez bazaar, Mokhigul's stand was filled with cheaply made nightgowns and thin T-shirts.
	www.jsonline.com /news/attack/ap/oct01/ap-attacks-uzbekis101701.asp?format=print (525 words)

	EurasiaNet Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Frustrated relief workers had kept three aid barges docked in Termez for almost a week before a UN team in Afghanistan said the relief mission could depart for Hairaton, on the Afghan side of the river.
		UN workers would not say exactly how the security situation changed in northern Afghanistan, but cautiously described this first shipment a "test run." Previously, there were fears that roving units of Taliban fighters could loot or attack the humanitarian mission.
		Termez is located approximately 40 miles north of the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which fell to Northern Alliance fighters on November 9.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/rights/articles/eav111401.shtml (1044 words)

	Termez :: History, monuments and pictures of Termez. Weather in Termez
		AD was marked by Kushan rule, during which Buddhism became widespread in the Eastern Turkestan and Central Asia, especially in Termez, where big Buddhist architectural complexes Kara-Tepa and Fayaz-Tepa were discovered.
		Termez became major frontier town of the south border of Russia.
		Termez, being the town of the centuries-old history, is nowadays one of the major economic centres of Uzbekistan.
	www.orexca.com /termez.shtml (393 words)

	SABCnews.com - world/asia1pacific
		The UN has labelled Termez "a gateway of assistance" for the 7,5 million people in Afghanistan it estimates are threatened with starvation.
		UN agencies are awaiting the go-ahead from their headquarters in New York and from the Uzbek government, with the first barges expected to sail at the middle of next week.
		UN trucks carrying aid from the Uzbek capital are still arriving in Termez, while aircraft with some 40 tonnes of humanitarian assistance on board land at the airport here almost daily.
	www.sabcnews.com /world/asia1pacific/0,2172,23477,00.html (530 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TERMEZ, UZBEKISTAN - A small grave decorated with red stars overlooks the Amu-Darya, the mighty Central Asian river that delineates much of the border between the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan.
		In Termez the half-mile-long bridge across the Amu-Darya, originally built to transport war materiel to the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, has been closed for more than a year.
		IÑ Termez a sense of calm belies the tense situation on the border.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/08/14/p1s1.htm (1155 words)

	Worldandnation: America's new friends
		Farmers, standing beside their wheat and cotton fields at night, have heard the explosions of bombs the Americans are dropping on the Taliban.
		In Termez, a dusty city of 120,000 that guards the only bridge between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, the war seems to have stopped no one.
		At the Termez Bazaar, women sell yopkan non, loaves of bread that are served with every Uzbek meal.
	www.sptimes.com /News/111801/Worldandnation/America_s_new_friends.shtml (2426 words)

	"TERMEZ ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM"
		Existence in Bactria (including the territory of Surkhan) of centralized state during four centuries was marked by the high development in all spheres of economical and cultural life.
		Urban planning of this epoch have studied well on the example of Dalverzintepa, Zartepa, Old Termez and its component parts Karatepa and Fayaztepa.
		Kushan cities of Surkhan Oasis besides of administrative and economic meanings fulfilled the function of religious centers (Karatepa, Fayaztepa, Zurmala in Old Termez, Buddhist temples of Airtam and Dalverzintepa).
	archaeomuseum.freenet.uz /5e.htm (396 words)

	FERGANA REGIONAL REPORT
		The main economic center of the region is Termez - the southernmost city of Uzbekistan, founded in 3rd-2nd centuries B.C. Under tsar Nicholai II, Termez was fortified in order to protect the southern border of the Russian empire, and is still a stronghold guarding the state border between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
		Termez can turn into a windy city with the "afghanets", a dust storm unique to the area, clouding the skies and filling the air with whirling grains of sand.
		Two of the main existing routes are to the south (Iran) both to the sea port of Bander Abbas, and the land route through Turkey to Europe.
	www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0412UZ_Surhandarya.htm (2530 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Germany Takes Low-Key Approach Toward Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For now, the Termez base issue appears to be tipping that balance in favor of a non-confrontational policy course.
		Known in German as Lufttransportstùtzpunkt 3, the Termez base is currently home to about 300 German soldiers, who help maintain seven C-160 transport planes and five CH-53 helicopters used to support military operations in Afghanistan.
		In an emergency the loss of Termez could be compensated temporarily, but not for a longer period of time," the official said.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav090705.shtml (1194 words)

	Uzbekistan: Independence Day ~ by Hafez Ismail
		Termez, a city famous for its border with Afghanistan was slowly becoming a distant memory.
		Gone were my fast impressions of the sinister OVIR police responsible for immigration in Uzbekistan, and the port from where I could see the land of Mazar-i-Sharif and the Taliban.
		After two hours again in the direction of Termez, the bus suddenly changed course and was headed back towards Tashkent.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/66/Living_In_Uzbekistan.html (1238 words)

	UzbekWorld.com - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Termez airport which is located on the border with Afghanistan will also be used, along with Tashkent airport.
		They have been stockpiled at Termez river port from where the humanitarian aid will be taken to Afghanistan.
		Earlier, two aircraft with Afghanistan-bound UNICEF humanitarian cargo on board landed at Tashkent airport from where the tents and medicines were ferried by lorry to Termez, 700 km south of the Uzbek capital.
	www.uzbekworld.com /news/viewnews.cgi?newsid1005236027,60591, (235 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Southern Uzbekistan is on full military alert, as the country's armed forces prepare for war in Afghanistan By Naima Suleyman in Termez and Urakbai Ketbenbaev in Karshi (RCA No. 72, 2-Oct-01) Uzbekistan's southern regions on the border with Afghanistan are gearing up for the start of US military operations against the Taleban regime.
		The headquarters of the armed forces in Termez and the head of the border guards are not giving interviews to journalists and will not answer questions about the level of military cooperation with the US.
		Last week, US specialists also visited the military airport 50 km from Termez in Kakaidy, which was built in the Soviet era and used during the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/rca/rca_200109_72_1_eng.txt (978 words)

	Luchtzak Aviation :: View topic - Uzbekistan Airways Yakovlev-40 frm Termez crashed in Taskent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An Uzbekistan Airways* Yakovlev-40 en route from Termez crashed on approach to the airport of Tashkent in Uzbekistan's capital early Tuesday.
		Termez became a major hub for humanitarian aid into northern Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, and aid workers and other foreigners commonly fly on flights between that city and the Uzbek capital.
		German troops have also been using the airport in Termez as a support base for peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan.
	www.luchtzak.be /print-topic-2971-0.html (347 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Termez -- today a quiet, unremarkable city in southern Uzbekistan -- was once at the heart of Central Asian Buddhism, and home to Fayaz Tepa, a Buddhist monastery that is more than 1,000 years old.
		In Termez, plans are under way to begin restoration of the historic Fayaz Tepa monastery, built more than 1,000 years ago outside just beyond the city walls.
		But unfortunately, between the time that the project document was signed and when it was supposed to start, the situation in neighboring Afghanistan worsened and the security was tightened in Termez region and Surkhandar'ya province.
	www.rferl.org /nca/features/2003/03/17032003190150.asp (1174 words)

	Uzbekistan will build a railroad from Termez to Mazar-e-Sharif with the American money - Ferghana.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Termez will become a link between Afghanistan and the developed transport infrastructure of Uzbekistan - America's major strategic ally in Central Asia.
		In February 2002, the government of Uzbekistan introduced tariff preferences for transportation of humanitarian and commercial shipments from Termez to Khairaton.
		Official Islamabad announced in December 2003 that it was prepared to commence construction of 170 kilometers of a railroad from the border town Chaman (Pakistan) to Kandagar (the largest city in southern Afghanistan).
	enews.ferghana.ru /4printer.php?id=643 (684 words)

	Chicago Tribune \| Border city takes life in stride as war winds blow
		Women in ankle-length, colorful print dresses and children in faded fashion knockoffs pick cotton in the fields that line the 30 miles of road from Termez to the Uzbek air base of Kakaidi.
		The region is a desolate place of sand and scrub, of painted stucco houses and mud-brick windbreaks, of abject poverty, water shortages and dreadful weather.
		Termez is also right across the Amudarya River from Afghanistan.
	www.chicagotribune.com /news/local/chi-0110050263oct05,0,3028122.story (732 words)

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