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CHIMKENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 165 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHIMKENT , a See also:

town of See also:Asiatic See also:Russia, in the See also:province of Syr-darya, 7o m. by See also:rail N.N.E. of See also:Tashkent. Pop. (1897) 10,756, mostly Sarts. It occupies a strategical position at the See also:west end of the valley between the See also:Alexander range and the See also:Ala-tau (or Talas-tau), at the See also:meeting of commercial routes from (I) See also:Vyernyi and See also:Siberia beyond, from the See also:north-See also:east, (2) the See also:Aral See also:Sea and See also:Orenburg (connected with it by rail since 19o5) to the north-west, and (3) See also:Ferghana and See also:Bokhara to the See also:south. The citadel, which was stormed by the Russians in 1864, stands on high ground above the town, but is now in ruins. Chimkent is visited by consumptive patients who wish to try the See also:koumiss cure. It has See also:cotton See also:mills and See also:soap-See also:works.

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