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Fergana

City in eastern Uzbekistan, and capital, cultural, and administrative centre of Fergana wiloyat (region), situated 250 km/155 mi southeast of Tashkent and 65 km/40 mi east of Kokand; population (1999) 182,800. It is an important centre of petroleum and oil extraction and refining, and is the capital of the major cotton- and fruit-growing region of the Fergana Valley.

Fergana was founded as Novy Margelan by Russian forces as a garrison town and admistrative centre after the overthrow of the Kokand Khanate.

Fergana

Wiloyat (region) in eastern Uzbekistan, bordering on Kyrgyzstan to the south, and Tajikistan to the west; area 7,100 sq km/2,741 sq mi; population (1999) 2,600,000. The main towns are Fergana (capital), Kokand, and Margilan. Important industries are oil extraction and processing, fertilizers and building materials, and textile manufacture and food industries; agricultural production is based on cotton, fruit, and flowers.

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The province is located in the southern part of the highly fertile Fergana Valley (which has black chernozem soil).



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The breakup of the Soviet Union led to dramatic economic decline in Central Asia, as in the Fergana Valley, where the radical Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan took root in the midst of unemployment rates soaring to between 60 percent and 90 percent.
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