12 Facts About Fergana valley

The Fergana valley owes its fertility to two rivers, the Naryn and the Kara Darya, which unite in the Fergana valley, near Namangan, to form the Syr Darya.

The area of Fergana valley was thus the theater of the first major interaction between an urbanized culture speaking Indo-European languages and the Chinese civilization, which led to the opening up the Silk Road from the 1st century BC onwards.

For periods in the 4th and 5th centuries, the Sassanid Empire directly controlled Transoxiana and Fergana valley, led by the conquests of Shapur II and Khosrau I against the Kushans and the Hephthalite Empire.

Sassanid rule of Fergana valley was interrupted by the Hepthalites, possibly Turkic.

Fergana valley defeated Alutar and the Arab occupation force at Namangan and reinstalled Ikhshid on the throne.

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Samarkand and Fergana went to his son, Nasr I of Samanid, leading to a series of Samanid Dynasty Muslim rulers of the valley.

Fergana valley was ruled by a series of Muslim states in the medieval period.

Fergana valley built a citadel to be his capital in the small town of Kokand.

Fergana valley was a province of Russian Turkestan, formed in 1876 out of the former khanate of Kokand.

However, the Fergana valley is a religiously conservative region which was particularly hard-hit by President Karimov's secularization legislation in Uzbekistan, together with his decision to close the borders with Kyrgyzstan in 2003.

Fergana valley'storically the Fergana Valley was an important staging-post on the Silk Road for goods and people traveling from China to the Middle East and Europe.

That this difference existed and was felt in Fergana valley is attested to in Timur Beisembiev's recent translation of the Life of Alimqul .