Margilan

Margilon ( Марғилон ) ( usbek. )

The Chonachan Mosque

Margilon ( Uzbek Margilon / Марғилон; Russian Маргилан / Margilan ) is an industrial city in the Uzbek province Fargona in the east of the country. Margilon lies on 487 meters above sea level, covers about 40 km ² and has 143,600 inhabitants ( 1999). The town is located 30 kilometers north of the city Fargona, a colonial foundation that contributed to the 20th century the name New Margelan (Russian Nowy Margelan ), and 70 km east of Qoqon. The numerically most important in the 30 -to-find in Margilon nationalities are the Uzbeks ( 91.9 %), Russians (3.1%) and Tatars ( 1.4%).

History

According to legend, the city was founded by Alexander the Great. He should here during a stop chicken ( murgh ) and bread ( nan ) have been passed, resulting in Margilons name is to be derived. More reliable sources suggest that Margilon around the 9th century was an important city on the Silk Road on the route over the mountains Alai according to Kashgar.

In the 11th century Margilon was the largest city in the Ferghana Valley; in the early 16th century mentioned Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, the quality of pomegranates, apricots, and the Wilds of Margilon. He also described the population, Sart, as aggressive and stressed that most of the known exorcist Bukhara and Samarkand are Margilanis. At these times, the businessmen from Margilon key players were in the Central Asian trade industry. After the city in the 18th century belonged to the Khanate of Kokand, it was taken in 1876 by the Russians. During the Soviet period Margilon was the center of the Uzbek black market. Today the city as well Namangan is considered a stronghold of conservative Islam.

Economy

Margilon, today the center of Uzbekistan's silk industry, is also home to Uzbekistan's largest traditional silk factory named Yodgorlik that manufacture in which over 2,000 workers annually 250,000 m² of high quality silk. The neighboring Margilan Silk Factory produces 15,000 workers 22 million m² of silk per year. When exactly the knowledge of silk production in the Fergana Valley found its way, is not known in Margilon since antiquity exists but this industry already.

Attractions

• Said Akhmad - Chodja - Madrasa ( since the 19th century, active)
• Toron Mosque, Mosque Chonachan

Chonachan Mosque

In the silk factory Yodgorlik