Namangan

Namangan ( Наманган ) ( usbek. )

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Namangan is just under 400,000 (as of 2005 ) residents to Tashkent the second largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the capital of the province of Namangan, in the north of multicultural Ferghanatals. It forms a stronghold of Uzbeks in this high-wear area of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Namangan is a local center of the Islamic religion.

South of the town open into one another the rivers Naryn and Karadarja, forming the Syr Darya.

Economy

Namangan, an important industrial center, located in an area with considerable deposits of oil, gold, copper and quartz. The city is the center of the oil industry, is found in its vicinity an antimony mine. The agricultural sector is dominated by the cultivation of cotton, fruits and vegetables. The necessary amounts of water to wick the northern Ferghanakanal from the Syr Darya.

History

The settlement Namangan is known since the 15th century, the mid-18th century, the city was part of the Khanate of Kokand from. After the Russian annexation in 1876 of the cotton production in the region was established. According to Meyers Lexicon was Namangan around the turn of the century the main market of the area with " 4000 houses, 1000 retail stores, 250 mosques, busy cotton mill, large markets where annually 300,000 steppe sheep are sold, and considerable trade in fruit, skins and felts " and 61 906 residents. 1926 shook the city an earthquake. In the Soviet era, Islamic customs such as polygyny and the veiling of women were able to hold up in the 1960s.

Attractions

Attractions in Namangan include a natural and historical museum, the Hodja -amine Kabri Mausoleum from the 17-18. Century and the Mullah Kyrgyz Madrassah (1910).

Famous sons and daughters of the town

• Yulduz Usmanova