A history of Tashkent- one of the largest cities of contemporaneity- extends into the depth of centuries. Information on a history of Tashkent can be found in the various sources- in different time periods it had different names: Chach, Shash, Binkent, Shoshkent and others. A city under the name of Tashkent is first mentioned in the 11th century in the encyclopedic works of Abu Raikhon Al-Beruni and Makhmud Koshgary.
In the 10th century, in Tashkent for the purpose of protection
of the city against the raids of the external enemies there began
to be erected the gates for going into and out of the city.
The number of these gates was changing during the passage of time.
By the middle of the 19th century there were 12 gates in the wall
surrounding the city. All these gates had their own keys bearing
the name of the gate and date of the key making.
Alisher Navoiy Theater
Tashkenbt also has separate monuments of the ancient culture and
architecture. The most famous of them are Kukeldash Madrasah and
Barakhana Madrasah erected in the 16th century and safeguarded
by the state.
The Koukeldash Madrasah XVI century.
From 1930 Tashkent has become the capital of Uzbekistan.
It is known that from 1924 to 1930 this role was performed by
Samarkand.
At the present time (1997) the population of Tashkent amounts
more over 2 million 500 thousand persons, and as to the population
itis the most large city of Central Asia, and it is forth among the
23 CIS cities with the number of population over one million persons,
outnumbered only by Moskow, Kiev and St. Peterburg.
Chor Sy Hotel
Tashkent is a large industrial city. In the last half of the century
here have appeared the new branches of the industry, was built a number
of large industrial enterprises. There took place a fast growth of the
volume of industrial production. Tashkent have occured substantial changes
in the structure of the industry. There have emerged a clear tendency of the
growth of the specific weight of the heavy industry.
