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TASHKENT, or TASHKEND

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TASHKENT, or TASHKEND , one of the largest and most important cities of See also:Russian Central See also:Asia, and See also:capital of Russian See also:Turkestan, situated in the valley of the Chirchik, some 50 M. above its confluence with the Syr-darya, in 40° 20' N., 69° 18' E. It is connected by See also:rail with See also:Krasnovodsk (1085 m.) on the See also:Caspian, and since 1905 with See also:Orenburg (1150 M.). The See also:city, formerly enclosed by walls (now ruinous), is surrounded by luxuriant gardens, and its houses are buried among the See also:fruit and other trees which grow alongside of the See also:irrigation canals. The buildings, which are of See also:stone and See also:sun-dried bricks, are mostly See also:low, on See also:account of the earthquakes which frequently disturb the region. The native city in 1871 had 78,130 in-habitants, and in 1897 156,414, mostly Sarts, with Uzbegs, See also:Kirghiz, See also:Jews, Russians and Germans. The Russian city, to the See also:south-See also:east, dating from 1865, has clean, broad streets lined with poplars, and canals, the low • asant-looking houses being surrounded by gardens. In its See also:population, ex- clusive of the military, was 4860, mo- ussians, and in 1900 about 25,000. Tashkent has a pub • library containing a valuable collection of See also:works on Central Asia, an astronomical See also:observatory and a museum.

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