Jizzakh Uzbek:Жиззах / Jizzax | |
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| Coordinates:40°06′57″N67°50′32″E / 40.11583°N 67.84222°E /40.11583; 67.84222 | |
| Country |  Uzbekistan |
| Region | Jizzakh Region |
| First mention | 10th century |
| Government | |
| • Type | City Administration |
| • Hakim (Mayor) | Rahmonqulov Akrom |
| Area | |
• City | 49 km2 (19 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 140 km2 (54 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 378 m (1,240 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
• City | 202,200 |
| • Rank | 12th |
| • Density | 4,100/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Jizzakhite (Uzbek: Jizzaxlik, Jizzaxlilar) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 ( ) |
| Postal code | 130100-130117 |
| Area code | (+998) 72 |
| Vehicle registration | 25-29 |
| Climate | Csa |
| Website | www |
Jizzakh (/dʒɪzˈzæk/jiz-ZAK;Uzbek:Jizzax / Жиззах,pronounced[dʒɨzˈzaχ]) is a city and the center ofJizzakh Region inUzbekistan, located in the northeast ofSamarkand. It is a district-level city.[1] The population of Jizzakh is 179,200 (2020 est.).[2]
According to one view, the name of the city comes from theSogdian wordDizak, which is thediminutive form ofdiz (meaning "fortress") and means "small fortress" or "small fort".[3]
It was mentioned in the 10th centuryHudud al-'Alam under the nameDizak (Arabic:دزك),[4][5] and in the 13th centuryMu'jam al-Buldan under the namesDīzak (Arabic:ديزك) andDizaq (Arabic:دزق).[6]
Jizzakh was an importantSilk Road junction on the road connecting Samarkand with theFergana Valley. It is at the edge ofGolodnaya Steppe, and next to the strategicPass of Jilanuti (Timur's Gate) in theTurkestan Mountains, controlling the approach to theZeravshan Valley, Samarkand andBukhara. After theArab conquest ofSogdiana, Jizzakh served as a market town between the nomadic raiders and settled farmers. The Arabs built a series ofrabats (blockhouses) at Jizzakh, housingghazis to protect the people. Under the Abbasids, rule of the region of Osrushana was given over to the house of Saman, who split the wider region amongst themselves under Abbasid suzerainty. In 892,Ismail Samani united the regions under his family's control, and effectively gained the region's independence from the Abbasids, founding theSamanid Empire.
After the fall of the Samanid's around the year 1000, Jizzakh fell under the rule of theKara-Khanid Khanate. The Khanate had a string of successes, conquering the whole region of Transoxiana and pushing east into the Western Tarim Basin. In 1041, the khanate splintered into two. After a decade of infighting, the split was formalized into an eastern and western khanate, with Jizzakh falling into the western portion. After their conquest of Samarkand in 1086, theSeljuk Empire forced the western khanate to submit to their rule.
Jizzakh next fell under the control of theKhwarazmian Empire, who began as vassals to the Seljuks but eventually managed to become fully independent by 1190. Under their rule, they conquered much of Persia and Central Asia, leading to economic growth. This situation of relative prosperity was brought to an abrupt end in 1219 when the newly formedMongol Empire invaded Khwarazmia. TheMongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire was one of their most brutal campaigns, and many cities were destroyed including Jizzakh. In 1220, the city was invaded and destroyed, resulting in most of the population being killed and the majority of the city being leveled. Under Mongol rule, the city struggled to recover, and went into a state of decay.
The Mongol Empire was divided among the grandsons ofGenghis Khan, Jizzakh was included in the portion known as theChagatai Khanate. This Khanate included Transoxiana, the Fergana Valley, the Tarim Basin, the region around Turpan, and much of what is today southern Kazakhstan. Despite being a key piece of the greatMongol Empire, the Chagatai Khanate began to fragment as early as the year 1300. In the 1340s, the khanate split into two.Moghulistan, or the eastern portion, retained the Tarim Basin and southern Kazakhstan. Jizzakh fell into the western portion, which was initially controlled byQazan Khan ibn Yasaur, the last independently powerful Khan in the Transoxiana region.
In 1346 a tribal chief,Amir Qazaghan, killed Qazan and set up a puppet Khan. This marked a new era of khans with Mongol ancestry being used as politically legitimizing puppets, but lacking any real control. In 1370, after defeating his rivals in the region,Timur took control of Transoxiana, including Jizzakh. Early in his career, Timur fought regularly withMoghulistan to his north and east. Jizzakh, geographically near the border of Timur's realm and Moghulistan and controlling a key mountain pass, was likely rebuilt and refortified during this period.
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Under theTimurid Empire, Central Asia experienced a blossoming of art and culture. Jizzakh, with its proximity to the empire's northern border and location of trade routes to the capitalSamarkand likely experienced growth and revitalization. The empire began to weaken in the second half of the 15th century. In 1488, an Uzbek contingent led byMuhammad Shaybani helped Moghulistan defeat the Timurids in their attempt to conquer Tashkent, at theBattle of the Chirciq River. After this Timurid defeat, their power fell while Shaybani's power grew in the area between Tashkent and Samarkand. It is unclear if Jizzakh was held by Shaybani or as a Timurid bastion in these early years of Shaybani's rise to power. In 1500, he certainly controlled the city, as he needed it in his campaign to take the Timurid capital of Samarkand. In the next ten years his forces also capturedBukhara,Herat, and most of the surrounding region.
Shaybani established theKhanate of Bukhara, which would control Jizzakh for the next 100 years. Between 1600 and the mid 1700s, Jizzakh regularly changed hands, often functioning independently of neighboring powers. Uzbek nobility controlled the city during this era. In the 1740s, the emirs of Bukhara seized power from the remaining leaders of theKhanate of Bukhara. At some point between this time, and the official founding of theEmirate of Bukhara in 1785, Jizzakh fell under the control of the Emirs. It would stay as a part of the Emirate of Bukhara until the 1860s.
In 1866, Jizzakh was a major fortress for theEmirate of Bukhara. This was in part due to its position near the border with Russian Turkestan. TheRussian conquest of Central Asia had begun in the 18th century, and by the 1860s the Russians controlled a line of forts along theSyr Darya, just 70 miles from Jizzakh. In 1864, hostilities broke out between the Russians and the Emirate of Bukhara.Russian GeneralMikhail Chernyayev, the “Lion of Tashkent” failed in his first attempt to take Jizzakh, but succeed in his second try, with a loss of 6 men, against 6000 dead for the defenders. The old town was mostly destroyed, its remaining inhabitants evicted, and Russian settlers brought in.[7]
After its incorporation into theRussian Empire, Imperial agents placed Jizzakh under the jurisdiction of theSamarkand Oblast following its establishment in 1887. At the turn of the 19th century, the region was populated by what the Russian authorities qualified as ethnicUzbeks, who made up more than half of the population, withTajiks constituting another quarter of the population and other ethnicities including Kazakhs and Uyghurs making up the rest. After a railway was built to Tashkent in 1906, Russian settlers began to pour into the region. This led to resentment, and land was often seized from locals by the government and given over to settlers. While few settlers moved to the Jizzakh region, Russian policies of land surveying, and redistribution angered natives who had their rights to grazing land and other key commodities restricted by the government.
In 1916, Jizzakh was a center of ananti-Russian uprising. The revolt broke out after the Russians announced local men would be conscripted to do manual labor behind the front lines during World War I. This violated treaties the Russians had signed with during their conquest of the region that had promised to not conscripted locals. Most of the revolt was focused in the southern portions of the Jizzakh region, both the city and the mountains south of it. In 1917, Jizzakh's most famous native son,Sharof Rashidov, future secretary of theCommunist Party of Uzbekistan, was born.
During the Russian civil war, Jizzakh was initially a part of theTurkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. After a debate among the communists about whether the region should embrace a more pan-Turkish identity, or be divided into smaller ethnic republics, the later side won out.National delimitation in Central Asia was started in 1924, and Jizzakh was placed in theUzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Jizzakh is an ancient oasis. The Turkestan and Nurata ridges, which surround the southern and part of the western part of the country, and the Arnasay-Aydar-Tuzkan lakes in the northern part of the country, provides a temperate climate.[citation needed] The peaks are covered with snow and glaciers, Chovkar mountain, in the foothills of the Usturshona system there are thick pine forests.
From the slopes of the mountains at an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level, pine forests begin. As the mountains rise, the pine forest thickens.
There are more than 20 caves in the region. Although they have not been studied by experts, only amateurs who have observed the Peshawar cave recall that inside the cave there is a large and long square (hall), a red hearth, paintings on stone walls and petroglyphic inscriptions abound. In addition, the long cave is artificially fenced and additional stairs are made for the next hall, which testifies to the fact that primitive people lived here in ancient times.
The huge cave south of Mount Molguzar was once used as a Buddhist temple. The book "History of the Sui Dynasty" also mentions the Eastern TSao (Usturshona), "There is the city of Yecha. It is a closed cave in the city and is sacrificed twice a year. Or the cultural Tavakbulak, located on the shoulders of Mount Molguzar at an altitude of two thousand six hundred meters above sea level, can be called a miracle. On the river Aktash in Bakhmal district there is a huge cemetery on the shoulders of steep mountains, next to it there is a magnificent gorge "Blood Drop".
Or the spring that rises from the Suffa Square at the top of the mountain in Zaamin district, the nearby Muzbulak, the garden built on the top of a high mountain in Bakhmal - all this speaks of ancient history. Rivers attached to the mountains, springs flowing from glaciers, groves covering the ravines. About 100 medicinal herbs... On the banks of the Poyimard river in Jizzakh district, in the middle of a 20-meter-high rocky outcrop, all of them are natural monuments, all of which testify to the existence of primitive man.
Jizzakh has a sharply continental version of aMediterranean climate (KöppenCsa). January lows average −4 °C or 24.8 °F and July highs average 34.9 °C or 94.8 °F. The climate at the foot of the mountains is milder than that of deserts and steppes. Annual precipitation is 400 to 500 millimetres (16 to 20 in) in the south and 250 to 300 millimetres (10 to 12 in) in the north. The frost-free period totals between 210 and 240 days, whilst annual sunshine totals 2800 to 3000 hours. There are many rivers flowing from the mountains, of which the largest are Sangzor and Zaamin.
| Climate data for Jizzakh (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.7 (44.1) | 9.1 (48.4) | 15.6 (60.1) | 22.2 (72.0) | 28.4 (83.1) | 34.0 (93.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 33.8 (92.8) | 28.8 (83.8) | 22.2 (72.0) | 13.9 (57.0) | 8.0 (46.4) | 21.5 (70.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.0 (35.6) | 3.8 (38.8) | 9.8 (49.6) | 15.9 (60.6) | 21.6 (70.9) | 26.8 (80.2) | 28.3 (82.9) | 26.3 (79.3) | 20.7 (69.3) | 14.2 (57.6) | 7.8 (46.0) | 3.1 (37.6) | 15.0 (59.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) | −0.2 (31.6) | 5.1 (41.2) | 10.3 (50.5) | 14.8 (58.6) | 18.7 (65.7) | 20.0 (68.0) | 18.2 (64.8) | 13.1 (55.6) | 8.0 (46.4) | 3.3 (37.9) | −0.5 (31.1) | 9.1 (48.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 41.3 (1.63) | 57.4 (2.26) | 69.0 (2.72) | 60.5 (2.38) | 39.3 (1.55) | 11.0 (0.43) | 2.9 (0.11) | 1.8 (0.07) | 4.7 (0.19) | 21.2 (0.83) | 47.5 (1.87) | 46.2 (1.82) | 402.8 (15.86) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 13 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 102 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 92.7 | 107.1 | 154.2 | 217.5 | 302.7 | 355.3 | 388.0 | 368.0 | 305.4 | 229.7 | 129.0 | 90.9 | 2,740.5 |
| Source:NOAA[8] | |||||||||||||
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The population of the city as of 2020 was 179,900. Theoverwhelming part of the population isUzbeks.
The number of the city's residents is constantly growing, which is due to the general growth of the country's population, as well as the fact that the city as anadministrative center is attractive to the population of its own and visitors from otherregions.
National composition as of 2011: Uzbeks — 140,700 people (87.8%),Russians — 6,300 people (3.9%),Tajiks — 2,720 people (1.7%), others (includingKazakhs,Tatars,Ukrainians,Kyrgyz and others) — 10,600 people (6.6%).
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Jizzakh is a city with long sportstraditions and actively developingprofessional sports. Sports development is supervised by the Department of Culture and Sports ofJizzakh Region.
Football
The city has asoccer club "Sogdiana" (called "Jizzakh" in 1970-1972 and 1975-1976). It plays its home matches at thestadium of the "Sogdiana" sports complex - a multipurpose arena, rebuilt in 2015 and now designed for 11,650 spectators (previously - the "Central" stadium, the "Jizzakh" stadium).
Jizzakh is a major transportation hub. Therailroad andhighway connecting the central and western regions with the eastern regions of Uzbekistan pass through the city.
Along thevalley of the Sangzor River runs the highway "Big Uzbek Route", connecting the two largest cities and twocapitals of Uzbekistan: modern and ancient - the cities ofTashkent andSamarkand.
An electrifiedrailroad line connecting the cities ofTashkent andSamarkand passes through the city of Jizzakh, passing through the city ofXovos. Previously, there was also a non-electrified railroad line passing throughSyr Darya station, which ceased to function in the 1990s.
Until 2010, atrolleybus transportation network operated in the city. Trolleybuses were replaced bybuses produced by theSamKochAvto onIsuzuchassis, as well as shuttle buses based onDaewoo Damasmicrocars.
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دِيزَك: من قرى سمرقند، قال الإصطخري: ديزك من مدن أشر وسنة بها مرابط أهل سمرقند ودور ورباطات للسّبل، بها رباط حسن بناه بدر قشير، ولها نهر جار، ينسب إليها عبد العزيز بن محمد الديزكي، ويقال الديزقيّ، الواعظ السمرقندي، سمع أبا بكر محمد بن سعيد البخاري، مات في طريق مكة قبل ٣٠٨.
دِزَقُ: (...) ودزق أيضا: قرية كبيرة على طريق الشاش بما وراء النهر بين زامين وسمرقند، يقال لها دزق وساباط، نسب إليها جماعة، منهم: أبو بكر أحمد بن خلف الدزقي يعرف بابن أبي شعيب.
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