Kattakurgan

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Kattakurgan Country		Uzbekistan
Region	Samarqand Region
Elevation	480 m (1,570 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• City	90,600
• Urban	100%
Time zone	GMT + 5

Kattakurgan^{[Lower-Alfa 1]} (Uzbek: Каттақўрғон, Kattaqoʻrgʻon) is a city in the Samarqand Region of Uzbekistan.^[2] Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Ingichka.^[2] It has 90,600 inhabitants (2021).^[1] It is located on the road and railway between Bukhara and Samarkand.

Etymology

The name is Turkic and means "large town or kurgan".

History

The town does not appear to be of any great antiquity, although after

valley may briefly have shifted west to the region around Katta-Kurgan.

According to F.F. Pospelov, a fortress was built on the current site by the local saint Sufi Allahyar and his two brothers, Farhat-Atalyk and Allah-Nazar-bii, in 1684, and the town subsequently grew up around it. Modern Kattakurgan (its oldest part is the "old city") was founded in the last quarter of the 17th century (1683-1684).

It was the seat of a Bek (local Governor) under the rule of the Bukharan

. It is currently the second largest city in Samarkand Region.

Demographics

The majority population of Kattakurgan is of Uzbek ethnicity. Kattakurgan previously also had a large Russian population, which is no longer the case.

Sources and further reading

• Ф.Ф. Поспелов "Материалы к Истории Самаркандской Области" Справочная Книга Самаркандской Области Выпуск X (Самарканд) (1912), pp 108–111
• В.В. Бартольд Работы по Исторической Географии (Москва) (2002) pp 197–8, pp 287–8

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