Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan)
The Ferghana Valley sits on one of the two main branches of the historicSilk Route(the other traverses the Pamirs and the Tajik-Afghan border). Major important cities along the route such asKhujand(Tajikistan),Kokand(Uzbekistan), andOsh(Kyrgyzstan) popped up at strategic points to tax and control this vital trade route. The earliest peoples in the valley in recorded history were Persian-speaking peoples and other, related Indo-Iranians like the Scythians (Saka). The fortress-city of Cyropolis was one of the Achaemenid Empire's regional capitals, and it was because of this that Alexander the Great conquered the valley's mouth in the 4th century BCE, founding the city ofAlexandria Eschate. Also during the Achaemenid period, rebellious Greeks from the problematic Ionian provinces were resettl
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