Tashkent

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Tashkent (Uzbek: Toshkent or Тошкент, Russian: Ташкент)) is the capital city of Uzbekistan. It is also the most populated city in Central Asia, with a population of 2,603,000 in 2023.^[1] Its name means "Stone City" in English.

Tashkent has been inhabited by people for thousands of years.^[2] It was destroyed by Genghis Khan in 1219, but later profited from the Silk Road. Tashkent was conquered by the Russian Empire in 1865, and became the capital of Russian Turkestan.^[3] Under the Soviet Union, Tashkent grew in population.

In 2008, Uzbeks accounted for 63% of the population, and the city has large minorities of Russians, Tatars, Koreans, and Tajiks.

1. ↑ "Tashkent, Uzbekistan Metro Area Population 1950-2023". www.macrotrends.net. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
2. ↑ "Юбилей Ташкента. Такое бывает только раз в 2200 лет". Фергана - международное агентство новостей. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
3. ↑ Malikov A., The Russian conquest of the Bukharan Emirate: military and diplomatic aspects in Central Asian Survey, Volume 33, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 180–198.