Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan, an ancient city on the Great Silk Road from China to Europe through, no remains of the ancient city, but little of the architectural heritage after the 1966 earthquake, where she has been for the destruction of the label in the 1917 revolution. Tashkent is originally a Soviet city where it is located in Central Asia, and the city has a mixture of modern new buildings of offices, hotels and parks with the collapse of the residential buildings, Soviet-style, and the streets are generally clean, and moreover infrastructure is not very good. Due to its location in Central Asia, signed the Tashkent under the influence of the Turkish Sogdian in ancient history before Islam in the 8th century, after being destroyed by Genghis Khan in 1219, and the city was rebuilt and has benefited from the Silk Road in 1865, where it was conquered by the Russian Empire, saw in the Soviet era substantial growth and demographic changes due to forced deportations from all over the Soviet Union
Tashkent is today the capital of independent Uzbekistan, and remains a multi-ethnic population, where ethnic Uzbeks form a majority, and the number of officially registered population of the city in 2012 about 2.3093 million people. Over the past few years, the Uzbek government has prepared a program for the main building in the center of the city, all rebuilt in terms of roads, government buildings and parks "and razing many historical buildings and sites" to attract visitors to the new city, despite the fact that many locals have not yet see any improvement in their residential areas. Tashkent waiting for prosperity, in infrastructure, hotels, shops, but failed in the flow of people and the business sector due to government policies and bad publicity
Geography
Tashkent is located in an easy-watered to the west of the Altai Mountains, on the road between Shymkent and Samarkand. And Tashkent there at the confluence of Chirchik river with many tributaries, and was built on land sedimentary deep up to 15 meters, and the city is located in an active tectonic zone where exposed to large numbers of tremors and earthquakes, as one earthquake in 1966 measured 7.5 on the Richter scale occurred
Climatically
Featuring Tashkent climate Mediterranean climate, as stated in the statement, "Cobain: Canadian Space Agency" with a strong continental climate impacts, "Cobain: DSA", and as a result is characterized Tashkent climate cold winter with snowfall, where they are not normally associated with most Mediterranean climates , with long hot and dry summer. Occurs cold snowy winter in the months of December, January and February, as most of the rainfall occurs during these months, which falls as snow, with an average snowfall of 70 cm during 32 days with snow cover, and the rise is happening in the precipitation of 500 meters. Long summer in Tashkent, usually during May to September, and Tashkent can be extremely hot during the months of July and August, the city has also receives very little precipitation of rain during the summer, especially in the period from June until September
Demographics
In 1983, the number of Tashkent residents amounted to 1.902 million people live in the municipal area, and by 1991, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the number of permanent residents in the capital has grown to nearly 2.1366 million people, and was the city of Tashkent is the most populous, any fourth in the Soviet Union Previously, after Moscow and Leningrad, "St. Petersburg", and Kiev at the present time, and Tashkent is still the fourth most densely populated cities in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States, where the city's population was 2295300 people in 2004.
As of 2008, the national structure in Tashkent as follows:
63.0% - Uzbeks, 20.0% - Russians, 4.5% - Tatars, 2.2% - Koreans, 2.1% - Tajiks, 1.2% - the Uighurs, 7.0% - other nationalities
Currency
Tashkent is the currency Som Uzbekistan uzs, Saudi riyal is equal to about 655 som
Tourism
Main tourist attractions
Because of the destruction of most of the old city during the 1917 revolution, and later, an earthquake in 1966, there is still little from the traditional architectural heritage in Tashkent, however, it is rich in museums and memorials to the Soviet era, they include
Religious schools, dating back to the reign of Abdullah Khan II "1557- 1598", and is currently being restored by the religious of the provincial council, and there is talk of turning it into a museum, but is currently being used as a mosque. There is a huge market which is located in the open air, which the old town center in the city of Tashkent, and everything imaginable for sale. The mosque Telyashayakh "and Imam Khast mosque, as it contains the Koran, which collected Prophet Osman, which is one of the oldest Quran exists in the world, dating back to 655, which is smeared with the blood of Caliph Uthman when he was killed, was brought by Tamerlane to Samarkand, seized by Russians as war booty and transferred to St. Petersburg, and returned to Uzbekistan in 1924
Younis Khan's mausoleum
Younis Khan's mausoleum, as a group of three shrines established in the 15th century and restored in the 19th century, and is the largest tomb Younis Khan, grandfather of Babur, founder of Mughal empire
Prince Romanov Palace
Prince Romanov palace built during the 19th century, were denied the Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, "a cousin of Alexander III" from Russia to Tashkent for some suspicious transactions involving the Russian crown jewels. His palace still stands in the center of the city, has been approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Alisher Navoi Opera
Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre, who designed Lenin's Tomb in Moscow, Alexei, with Japanese prisoner who is a labor of war in World War II, where it hosts visitors in the Russian Ballet and Opera Theatre
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts in Uzbekistan, which contains a large collection of art from the period before the Russian, including murals Sogdian and Buddhist statues and art Zoroastrian, along with the more modern of the 19th century and 20th of Applied Arts, such as Suzani embroidered hangings group.
And the Museum of Applied Arts, which is located in a traditional home, commissioned by wealthy tsarist diplomat, and the house itself is the main attraction. History Museum, the largest museum in the city, and he lived in the former Museum of Lenin
Amir Timur Museum
Amir Timur Museum, in brilliant blue domed building with interior decoration, featuring exhibits of Timor President Islam Karimov, where there is a garden statue Timor on horseback, surrounded by beautiful gardens and fountains in the city
Navoi Literary Museum
Navoi Literary Museum, where the anniversary of Uzbekistan's literary hero, and Alisher Navoi, with manuscripts and calligraphy and miniature paintings dating back to the 15th century.
The demolition of the Russian Orthodox Church, which in the yard of Amir Timur, built in 1898, but it is necessary to note that this building was not used as a building religious since 1920 because of the campaign antireligious conducted by the Bolshevik government from Moscow across the former Soviet Union, and during the Soviet era was The building is used for non-religious purposes different; and after independence, became a bank
Tashkent also includes a garden memorial to World War II and the defender of the motherland, such as the monument Abdulkasim Medressah, which is located in the "in the southern part of the old city," and built a monument medressah in honor of the great thinker Abdulkhasim Khan at the beginning of the 19th century, as it is located near the Parliment Uzbekistan
Education
Is the most important scientific institutions in Uzbekistan, such as the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. There are many universities and institutions of higher education:
Tashkent Institute of cars and road construction
Technical University in Tashkent
Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction
Tashkent University of Information Technology
Westminster International University in Tashkent
Polytechnic University of Turin in Tashkent
National University of Uzbekistan
World Economy and Diplomacy University
Tashkent State Economic University
Tashkent State Institute of Law
Tashkent Institute of Finance | Financial Institute Tashkent
State University of Foreign Languages
Tashkent Medical Institute for Children
Tashkent State Medical Academy
Institute of Oriental Studies
Tashkent Islamic University
Management Development Institute of Singapore in Tashkent
Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry
Media
There has nine newspapers in Uzbek, and four in English and nine publications in Russian, as well as several facilities for television, including Tashkent Tower, the tallest building in Central Asia, and moreover, there is a system of digital broadcasting is available in Tashkent, a unique region of the its kind in Central Asia
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