Sarwan

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Sarwan
Сарван
Basic data
State : TajikistanTajikistan Tajikistan
Province : Sughd
Coordinates : 40 ° 55 '  N , 70 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 55 '23 "  N , 70 ° 39' 36"  E
Area : 8.4  km²
Residents : 150
Population density : 18 inhabitants / km²
Sarwan (Tajikistan)
Sarwan
Sarwan
Sarwan exclave in the northwest of the map.

Sarwan ( Tajik Сарван ; also Sarwaksoy / Сарваксой , Sarwak / Сарвак , or after the English transcription Sarvan, Sarvaksoy or Sarvak ; Uzbek Sarvan ; Persian سروان, سروک or سروک‌سای) is a Tajik exclave or an enclave in Uzbekistan . In the exclave are the two villages Sarwan / Sarwaksoy and the much smaller Sarwaki-Bolo (Сарваки-Боло) , in which 150 people live. The village of Sarwan itself lies on both sides of the Uzbek-Tajik border and belongs to the Tajik province of Sughd , within which the place belongs to the district of Ascht and the Uzbek district of Pop in the province of Namangan . The residents of Sarvan on both sides of the border are ethnic Uzbeks , but around half of the residents are Tajik citizens.

The exclave is an area about 14 kilometers long and 600 meters wide along the Sarwaksoy River , which runs parallel to the Kamchiq pass road between the Uzbek cities of Angren and Kokand in a side valley. The area of ​​the exclave is about 8.4 km². The minimum distance between Sarwan and the Tajik motherland is 1.2 km, the closest Uzbek town is Rezaksoy, 3 km from Sarwan on the Kamchik pass road.

The borders were established in Soviet times ; Sarwan became an exclave in 1991 when Tajikistan and Uzbekistan gained independence. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the course of the border had no effect on the lives of Sarwans. The independent states, however, marked their borders with fences and began to penalize illegal border crossers. After the terrorist attacks in Tashkent in 2004 , the road between Rezaksoy and Sarwan was closed, making life for the residents even more difficult.

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