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Fergana Valley: The Tomb of Ali at Shakhimardan, on the edge of the Ferghana Valley. Today it is in a small Uzbek enclave within Kyrgyzstan.
 
 

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The Fergana (Farghona, Farghana) Valley, on the Syr Dar'ya River with an area of 22,000 square kilometers (8,494 square miles), is a fertile, densely populated irrigated valley in the southeastern part of Central Asia. As a result of the Soviet...
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The Fergana Valley or Farghana Valley (Uzbek: Farg‘ona vodiysi, Kyrgyz: Фергана өрөөнү, Tajik: водии Фaрғонa, Russian: Ферганская долина, Persian: دشت فرغانه) is a region in the Tian Shan mountain ranges...


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The Economist (US)
Inside the valley of fear; Tension in Central Asia.(Uzbekistan's government confronts the militants in the Fergana valley)(terrorist threat in Uzbekistan)(Brief Article)
11/10/2001: 707 words, approx. 2 pages
Uzbekistan's government confronts the militants THE Fergana valley is sometimes called the tinderbox of Central Asia. In the streets of the fast-growing town of Namangan, the eye can pick out bits of tinder. The Muslim men in their traditional black pillbox hats...
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The Christian Science Monitor
Amid reforms, Muslims still under fire in Fergana Valley: Critics say that Uzbek government policies are pushing even moderates toward radicalism.(World)
07/19/2002: 1,280 words, approx. 4 pages
Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NAMANGAN, UZBEKISTAN -- First came the kidnapping: Muhamadkhon Najmiddinov was walking home after prayers at a local mosque in Uzbekistan a few months ago, when men jumped out of a passing car,...
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Uzbek rights advocate allegedly arrested
1/17/2007: 263 words, approx. 1 pages
An Uzbek doctor and rights advocate who claimed to have seen hundreds of bodies in the bloody crackdown of the 2005 Andijan uprising has been arrested for allegedly possessing banned literature, relatives said Wednesday.Gulbakhor Turayeva and her young son were detained Sunday at a border...
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Human Rights Watch: Uzbek rights activist sentenced to 6 years in jail
4/27/2007: 329 words, approx. 1 pages
An Uzbek rights activist who challenged the official account of a 2005 uprising by claiming that government troops killed hundreds of protesters has been sentenced to six years in jail, Human Rights Watch said Friday.The regional court in the eastern city of Andijan convicted Gulbakhor...
 


 

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