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Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the sou
Female statuette wearing the kaunakes. Chlorite and limestone, Bactria, beginning of the second millennium BC.
Triumphant crowd at Registan, Sher-Dor Madrasah. The Emir of Bukhara viewing the severed heads of Russian soldiers on poles. Painting by Vasily Vereshchagin (1872).
Russian troops taking Samarkand in 1868, by Nikolay Karazin
Two Sart men and two Sart boys in Samarkand, c. 1910
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek bra
Group of Uzbek women in the old city of Tashkent, 1924
The Uzbek SSR in 1927, including Tajik ASSR and Khodzhent
The Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union, 1989 (Navoi Oblast not shown)