Tashkent | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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00:01:28 1 History
00:01:49 1.1 Early history
00:02:41 1.2 History as Chach
00:03:53 1.3 Islamic history
00:05:00 1.4 Mongol conquest and aftermath
00:05:35 1.5 Kokand khanate
00:06:15 1.6 Tsarist period
00:08:30 1.7 Effect of the Russian revolution
00:10:32 1.8 Soviet period
00:13:48 1.9 Capital of Uzbekistan
00:15:29 2 Origin of television
00:16:52 3 Geography and climate
00:17:02 3.1 Geography
00:17:41 3.2 Climate
00:18:53 4 Demographics
00:20:20 5 Districts
00:21:41 6 Main sights
00:26:14 7 Education
00:27:50 8 Media
00:28:20 9 Transportation
00:28:54 10 Entertainment and shopping
00:29:16 11 Sport
00:30:57 12 Notable people
00:32:21 13 Twin towns – sister cities
00:32:35 14 See also



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Tashkent (; Uzbek: Toshkent, Тошкент, تاشكینت‎, [tɒʃˈkent]) is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, as well as the most populated city in ex-Soviet Central Asia with a population in 2018 of 2,485,900. It is located in the north-east of the country close to the Kazakhstan border. Much of the city was destroyed in the 1966 Tashkent earthquake, though it was rebuilt afterwards as a model Soviet city.
Tashkent was influenced by the Sogdian and Turkic cultures in its early history, before Islam in the 8th century AD. After its destruction by Genghis Khan in 1219, the city was rebuilt and profited from the Silk Road. From 18th to 19th century, the city became an independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of Kokand. In 1865, it fell to the Russian Empire, and became the capital of Russian Turkestan. In Soviet times, Tashkent witnessed major growth and demographic changes due to forced deportations from throughout the Soviet Union.
Today, as the capital of an independent Uzbekistan, Tashkent retains a multi-ethnic population, with ethnic Uzbeks as the majority. In 2009, the city celebrated its 2,200 years of written history.