Ferghana

Ferghana or Fergana ( Uzbek Farg `ona in ) is a city of the east of the Ouzbékistan of 182.800 inhabitants in 1999.

This name is also related to:

a fertile valley, the Valley of Ferghana, located at the east of Ouzbékistan;
a current province (viloyat) Uzbek, the Farg `ona Viloyati, whose Ferghana is the capital;
a historical province, which included also the viloyats Andijan and of Namangan.

History

At the beginning of thousand-year-old Ier the independent city Ferghana became a stage-key on the Silk route.

Formerly one of the cradles of the religion zoroastrienne, Ferghana played Moyen-âge a central role in the history of powerful the Empire moghol of South Asia and of India whose king ferghan Bâbur was the founder.

Following the expansion of the Russian Empire at the 19th century, the Turkestan was gradually invaded by the Russians, between 1855 and 1884. In 1873 they took the Khanat de Kokand to which Ferghana belongbelonged and included it in what was called the province of Ferghana of Russian Turkestan.

The modern city of Ferghana was rested by the Russians in 1876 like colonial garrison town, banlieu of the town of Marguelan (in the North-West of this one). At the beginning, it was called Novy Marguelan ( НовыйМаргелан ), re-elected in 1910 Skobelev ( Скобелев ), in the name of the first Russian military governor of the valley of Ferghana. Into 1924, after the reconquest of Bolsheviks of the area in 1918-1920, the name of the city was changed into Ferghana, of the name of the province of which it was formerly the center.

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