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Kokand (alternative spellings:
Khokand,
Khoqand;
Uzbek:
Quqon;
Russian: Коканд; :Куканд/کوکند ;
Chagatai: خوقند) is a city in
Fergana Province in eastern
Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the
Fergana Valley. It has a population of 192,500 (
1999 census estimate). Kokand is 228 km southeast of
Tashkent, 115 km west of
Andijan, and 88 km west of
Fergana. It is nicknamed “City of Winds”, or sometimes “Town of the Boar". It is located at at an altitude of 409 meters.
Kokand is on the crossroads of the ancient trade routes, 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. As a result, Kokand is the main transportation junction in the Fergana Valley.
History
Kokand has existed since at least the 10th century, under the name of
Khavakend and was frequently mentioned in traveler’s accounts of the caravan route between
India and
China. The
Mongols destroyed Kokand in the 13th century.
The present city began as a fort in 1732 on the site of another older fortress called
Eski-Kurgan. In 1740, it became the capital of an Uzbek kingdom, the
Khanate of Kokand, which reached as far as
Qyzylorda to the west and
Bishkek to the northeast. Kokand was also the major religious center of the Fergana Valley, boasting more than 300
mosques.
Russian imperial forces under
Mikhail Skobelev captured the city in 1876 which then became part of
Russian Turkistan. It was the capital of the short-lived (1917–18) anti-
Bolshevik Provisional Government of Autonomous Turkistan (also known as Kokand Autonomy).
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Economy
Kokand is a center for the manufacture of
fertilizers, chemicals, machinery, and
cotton and food products. Over the last two decades, new districts and public buildings have appeared in the city with intense growth of individual houses, shops, cafes, restaurants and other private sector ventures. Kokand is also an educational center with 1 institute, and 9 colleges and Lyceums, and numerous museums.
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Tourist sights
- Palace of Khudayar Khan – built 1863-1873, one of the largest & most opulent palaces in Central Asia. 19 of the original 113 rooms survive, and are now a museum.
- Jummi Mosque – a Friday mosque built in 1800-1812, and reopened in 198, it can hold 10,000 worshippers.
- Amin Beg Madrassah – built in 1813
- Dakhma-I-Shokhon – necropolis of the Kokand Khans from the 1830s
- Khamza Museum – dedicated to Kokand’s foremost Soviet hero, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi (1889-1929), Bolshevik propagandist, first national poet of Soviet Uzbekistan and founder of Soviet Uzbek literature.
All information about kokand at www.kokand.uz
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