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Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

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Samarqand Region Samarqand Region (Samarkand Region) ( uz, Самарқанд вилояти, Samarqand viloyati, russian: Самаркандская область) is the most populous region of Uzbekistan. It is located in the center of the country in the basi ...

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. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the

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Ingichka Ingichka ( uz, Ingichka/Ингичка, russian: Ингичка) is an urban-type settlement in Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan. Administratively, it is part of the city Kattakurgan , image_skyline = , image_caption = , ...

. It has 90,600 inhabitants (2021). It is located on the road and railway between

Bukhara Bukhara (Uzbek language, Uzbek: /, ; tg, Бухоро, ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan, with a population of 280,187 , and the capital of Bukhara Region. People have inhabited the region around Bukhara ...

and

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Etymology

The name is Turkic and means "large town or

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History

The town does not appear to be of any great antiquity, although after

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's ransacking of

Marakanda fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top:Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zinda, ...

(Samarkand), the center of cultural life in that part of the

Zeravshan Zarafshon ( uz, Zarafshon / Зарафшон, fa, زرافشان) is a city in the center of Uzbekistan's Navoiy Region. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Muruntau. It has an area of and it ...

valley may briefly have shifted west to the region around Katta-Kurgan. According to F.F. Pospelov, a fortress was built on the current site by the local saint Sufi Allahyar and his two brothers, Farhat-Atalyk and Allah-Nazar-bii, in 1684, and the town subsequently grew up around it. Modern Kattakurgan (its oldest part is the "old city") was founded in the last quarter of the 17th century (1683-1684). It was the seat of a ''Bek'' (local Governor) under the rule of the Bukharan

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dynasty. In 1868, following the fall of Samarkand to the Russians and the annexation of the Upper Zeravshan Valley from Bukhara, it became the border town between

Russian Turkestan Russian Turkestan (russian: Русский Туркестан, Russkiy Turkestan) was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire’s Central Asian territories, and was administered as a Krai or Governor-Generalship. It comprised the ...

and the

Bukharan Emirate The Emirate of Bukhara ( fa, , Amārat-e Bokhārā, chg, , Bukhārā Amirligi) was a Muslim polity in Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the land ...

, and the center of a district. In 1924 both entities were dissolved by the

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regime, and Katta-Kurgan was incorporated in the new

Uzbek SSR Uzbekistan (, ) is the common English name for the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR; uz, Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси, Oʻzbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi, in Russian: Уз� ...

. It is currently the second largest city in Samarkand Region.

Demographics

The majority population of Kattakurgan is of Uzbek ethnicity. Kattakurgan previously also had a large Russian population, which is no longer the case.

Sources and further reading

* Ф.Ф. Поспелов "Материалы к Истории Самаркандской Области" ''Справочная Книга Самаркандской Области'' Выпуск X (Самарканд) (1912), pp 108–111 * В.В. Бартольд ''Работы по Исторической Географии'' (Москва) (2002) pp 197–8, pp 287–8

References

Populated places in Samarqand Region Cities in Uzbekistan Samarkand Oblast {{Uzbekistan-geo-stub