Urgut
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Urgut Ургут |
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 1060 year old plane tree in Urgut |
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 Uzbekistan
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| Province: | Samarqand | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 24 ' N , 67 ° 15' E | ||
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| Residents : | 51,462 (2010) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+998) 366 | ||
Urgut is a provincial city in the Uzbek province of Samarkand at the foot of the Zeravshan Mountain Range . Urgut is located around 50 km southeast of the provincial capital Samarkand and around 20 km west of the Uzbek- Tajik border. The city of Urgut has (as of 2007) 48,308 inhabitants, the district of the same name , whose main town is Urgut, has 350,000.
Urgut is famous for the Chor-Chinor plane tree grove, which contains specimens that are over a thousand years old.
The largest bazaar in Uzbekistan is located in Urgut .
Urgutlik or Urguti represent a subgroup of the Uzbek ethnic group who trace their origins back to the city of Urgut. About half a million people count themselves among the Urgutlik, for whom the use of Tajik words is characteristic.
history
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Bukhara Khanate , to which the city belonged, weakened and the local rule of the Ming emirs became more visible.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Paul : Central Asia . Frankfurt am Main 2012 ( Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte , Volume 10), p. 358