Termiz
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Sultan Saodat Ensemble |
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Basic data | ||
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State : | Uzbekistan | |
Province: | Surxondaryo | |
Coordinates : | 37 ° 13 ' N , 67 ° 17' E | |
Location of Termiz in Uzbekistan |
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Height : | 302 m | |
Residents : | 140,404 (2005) | |
Telephone code : | (+998) 7622 |
Termiz (former Cyrillic spelling Термиз; Russian Термез Termes ), also transcribed as Termez , is a city in southern Uzbekistan and the capital of the Surxondaryo province and the Termiz district with 140,404 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2005).
Location and cityscape
The city is located at the mouth of Surxondaryo on the north bank of the river Amu Darya , the Afghanistan and Uzbekistan from each other. The Bridge of Friendship leading to the Afghan border town of Hairatan is the only land connection between the two countries.
Termiz is located at 302 m above sea level. The city has a train station, an international river port and an airport. The few industrial companies operate cotton processing and food production.
The Termez strategic air transport base was located in Termiz from February 2002 to December 2015 . All troops and supplies for the German ISAF and its successor mission Resolute Support in Afghanistan were handled here.
history
Termiz is more than 2500 years old. An old settlement from the Graeco-Bactrian period (third to second century BC) was located on the territory of the present city. Kara-Tepa, the site of the most important archaeological finds, was famous as the center of Buddhist culture during the Kushana period (first to second centuries) in Uzbekistan.
When the Arabs came in the seventh to eighth centuries, the city became the center of another religion, that of Islam . During the reign of Amir Timur the city prospered, but at the end of the 17th century it was destroyed. But even today you can still see a lot of the colorful, cosmopolitan past of the city.
In 1897 the now known Termiz was rebuilt as a garrison town as part of the Russian colonization . At the time the area belonged to Turkestan . Since oil was found in the area of the city, it quickly attracted the interest of the revolutionaries in 1917, and local landowners were immediately expropriated.
The following historical and architectural monuments can be found in Termiz:
- Kyrk-Kyz (outside the city - palace, country house) (9th - 14th centuries)
- Palace of the Termez rulers (11th-12th centuries)
- Mausoleum of al-Hakīm at-Tirmidhī (10th - 15th centuries)
- Architectural ensemble Sultan-Saodat (10th-18th centuries)
- Kokildora Mausoleum-Khanaka (16th century)
- Kara-Tepe Monastery (2nd - 4th centuries)
- Fayaz-Tepe Monastery (1st - 3rd centuries)
- Surmala tower (1st - 3rd century)
During the Afghan war from 1979 to 1989, the city was an important transit point for the Soviet Army . At that time over 100,000 soldiers of all branches were stationed in the city. Termiz is still home to around 10,000 soldiers from the Uzbek armed forces .
traffic
Termiz is connected to other cities by the Uzbek State Railroad ( Oʻzbekiston Temir Yoʻllari ), some as night train connections, including
- to Tashkent (train no. 379/380)
- to Dushanbe and Konibodom (train no. 367/368)
- to Qarshi , the next Uzbek city, 325 km north
- to Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan ( Termiz – Mazar- e Sharif line ), since 2010, only freight trains
Personalities
- Muhammad ibn ʿĪsā at-Tirmidhī (825–892), traditionalist and author of one of the canonical collections of traditions in Islamic literature
- Valery Michailowitsch Chalilow (1952–2016), conductor, composer and people's artist of Russia
- Sitora Hamidova (* 1989), long-distance runner
Climate table
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Termiz
Source: wetterkontor.de
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