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Definition of Tashkent

1. Noun. The capital of Uzbekistan.

Definition of Tashkent

1. Proper noun. Capital of Uzbekistan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tashkent

Literary usage of Tashkent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Creating Enemies of the State: Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan by Acacia Shields (2004)
"Seventeen Accused "Wahhabis:" Tashkent, June-August 2000 The trial of seventeen men from Tashkent who studied Islam at home starkly typifies the ..."

2. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler, Vasilīĭ Vasilʹevich Grigorʹev (1876)
"Tashkent. First Impressions—Similarity to American towns—Rapid growth—Houses —Garden of Governor-General—The Church—Earthquakes—Hotels and fare—The ..."

3. Afghanistan by Angus Hamilton (1906)
"NATIVE QUARTER, Tashkent CHAPTER III FROM Tashkent TO MERV THE first station beyond ... Stari Tashkent or Old Tashkent, rich in historical associations, ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"Tiie Tashkent Exhibition, 1890. By Captain AC YATE. THF: first Exhibition ever held in Asia (India excepted) has been held at Tashkent, the capital of ..."

5. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1906)
"Like most of the large towns in the Sir valley, Tashkent lies at some distance from the ... but the Russian pronunciation Tashkent seems to have gradually ..."

6. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"1904) ANGUS HAMILTON THE railway journey between Petersburg and Orenburg covers 1230 miles; and between Orenburg and Tashkent the distance is 1200 miles, ..."

7. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"... Orenburg covers 1230 miles; and between Orenburg and Tashkent the distance is 1200 miles, the latter line having taken almost exactly four years to lay. ..."

8. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (1889)
"In Tashkent, on the other hand, several obstacles preclude a similar amalgamation — the purely military character of the administration, the dearth of any ..."

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