Qarshi Қарши | |
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 Kok-Gumbaz mosque in Qarshi | |
  Qarshi Location in Uzbekistan | |
| Coordinates:38°52′N65°48′E / 38.867°N 65.800°E /38.867; 65.800 | |
| Kintra |  Uzbekistan |
| Province | Qashqadaryo Province |
| Population (1999) | |
| • Total | 197,600 |
Qarshi (Uzbek:Qarshi / Қарши;Persie:نخشب;Mongolie:Харш;Roushie:Карши) is a ceety in soothrenUzbekistan. It is the caipital oQashqadaryo Province an haes a population o 197,600 (1999 census estimate). It is aboot 520 km sooth-soothwast oTashkent, an aboot 335 km north o Uzbekistan's mairch wiAfghanistan. It is locatit at latitude 38° 51' 48N; langitude 65° 47' 52E at an altitude o 374 meters. The ceety is important innaitural gas production, but Qarshi is an aa famous for its production o weaved flatcairpets.
Oreeginally theSogdian ceety oNakhshab, an theIslamic Persian ceety oNasaf, Qarshi wis the seicont ceety o theEmirate o Bukhara. It is in the centre o a fertileoasis that produceswheat,cotton, ansilk an wis a stap on the 11 daycaravan route atweenBalkh anBukhara. TheChagatai Mongol khansKebek anQazan biggit pailaces here on the site oGenghis Khan's simmer pastur[1]. In 1364, Timur an aa biggit a fortifee'd pailace wi moats in wha is nou the soothren pairt o the ceety. The modren name "Qarshi" means fort.
Wi the decline oShahrisabz in the 18t century, Qarshi grew in importance, an wis the seat o the Croun Prince tae the Emirate o Bukhara. The ceety haed a dooble set o waws, 10caravanserais an 4madrassahs durin this time. Bi 1868, theRoushies haed annexed theZarafshan Valley, an in 1873, the treaty turnin Bukhara intae a Roushiepertectorate wis signed in Qarshi, muckle tae the dismay o the Emir's son, Abdul Malik, who teuk tae the hills in rebellion.
In the early 1970s, the first section o a majorirrigation project wis completit tae divert watter frae theAmu Darya River inTurkmenistan eastward intae Uzbekistan in order tae irrigate the land surroondin Qarshi. Amaist aw o thir irrigatit lands aroond Qarshi are plantit wicotton.
Coordinates:38°52′N65°48′E / 38.867°N 65.800°E /38.867; 65.800
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