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Tashkent
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Tashkent - Aerial view
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan
and also of the Tashkent Province.
The officially registered population of the
city in 2006 was 2.1 million.
According to unofficial data, the
population is more than 3 million.
In medieval times the town and the province
were known as "Chach".
Later, the town came to be known as
Chachkand/Chashkand, meaning "Chach City."
(Kand, qand, kent, kad, kath, kud--all
meaning a city, are derived from the Old
Persian, kanda, meaning a town or a city.
They are found in city names like
Samarkand, Yarkand, Penjikent etc.)
After the 16th century, the name was
steadily changed slightly from
Chachkand/Chashkand to Tashkand,
which, as "stone city", was more
meaningful to the new inhabitants
than the old name.
The modern spelling of Tashkent
reflects Russian orthography.
Geography
Tashkent is located 41°18'N, 69°16'E
in a well watered plain to the west
of the last Altai mountains on the
road between Chimkent and Samarkhand.
Tashkent sits at the confluence of the
Chirchik river and several of its
tributaries and is built on deep
alluvial deposits (up to 15 metres).
It is a lively tectonic area suffering
large numbers of tremors
and some earthquakes.
One earthquake in 1966 measured 7.5
on the Richter scale.
The local time in Tashkent
is UTC/GMT +5 hours.
For a more information about
Tashkent see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, March 2008.
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