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Kokand

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Kokand or Khokand , city (1991 pop. 182,000), E Uzbekistan, in the Fergana Valley. It is a center for the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, machinery, and cotton and food products. Important since the 10th cent., Kokand became the capital of an Uzbek khanate which became independent of the emirate of Bukhara in the middle of the 18th cent. and flowered in the 1820s and 30s. Kokand was taken by the Russians in 1876 and became part of Russian Turkistan. It was the capital (1917-18) of the anti-Bolshevik autonomous government of Turkistan. It has a ruined palace of the last Khan, working mosques, and royal mausoleums.

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Kokand

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Kokand (Quqon), Uzbekistan Khavakend, Eski‐Kurgan ‘Town of the Boar’ from khuk ‘boar’ and kand ‘town’. An ancient city, the present town was developed from a fort built in 1732 at Eski Kurgan ‘Old Tumulus (burial mound)’ and given the name Kokand in 1740; it became the capital of the Khanate of Kokand, based on the Ferghana Valley, in the 18th and 19th centuries. The khanate was occupied by the Russians in 1876, annexed, and renamed the province of Ferghana.

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