{"id":160,"date":"2021-10-10T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/?p=160"},"modified":"2021-10-10T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:15:19","slug":"karshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/karshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Karshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 29px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/news\/karshi\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uzbekintour.com\/images\/Flag-Russian.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"29\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; color: green; font-weight: bold;\">RUS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Introduction<\/h1>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Karsh_3.gif\" alt=\"Karshi\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">Karshi<\/span> (Uzbek: Qarshi,) is a city in southern Uzbekistan. It is the capital of Qashqadaryo Province and has a population of <span class=\"date\">197,600<\/span> (<span class=\"date\">1999<\/span> census estimate). It is about <span class=\"date\">520<\/span> km south-southwest of Tashkent, and about <span class=\"date\">335<\/span> km north of Uzbekistan&#8217;s border with Afghanistan.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Karsh1.gif\" alt=\"Karshi\" \/><br \/>\nIt is located at latitude <span class=\"date\">38\u00b0 51&#8242; 48N;<\/span> longitude <span class=\"date\">65\u00b0 47&#8242; 52E<\/span> at an altitude of <span class=\"date\">374<\/span> meters.<br \/>\nOriginally the Sogdian city of Nakhshab, and the Islamic Persian city of Nasaf, Karshi was the second city of the Emirate of Bukhara. It is in the center of a fertile oasis that produces wheat, cotton, and silk and was a stop on the <span class=\"date\">11<\/span> day caravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and Qazan built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan&#8217;s summer pasture.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Karsh_2.gif\" alt=\"Karshi\" \/><br \/>\nIn <span class=\"date\">1364<\/span>, Timur also built a fortified palace with moats in what is now the southern part of the city. The modern name &#8220;Karshi&#8221; means fort.<br \/>\nWith the decline of Shahrisabz in the <span class=\"date\">18th<\/span> century, Karshi grew in importance, and was the seat of the Crown Prince to the Emirate of Bukhara. The city had a double set of walls, <span class=\"date\">10<\/span> caravanserais and <span class=\"date\">4<\/span> madrassahs during this time.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Karsh_Non_Bazaar.gif\" alt=\"Non Bazaar\" \/><br \/>\nIn the early <span class=\"date\">1970s<\/span> the first section of a major irrigation project was completed to divert water from the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan eastward into Uzbekistan to irrigate the land surrounding Karshi. Almost all of the irrigated lands around Karshi are planted with cotton. The city is important in natural gas production.<br \/>\nKarshi is also famous for its production of woven flat carpets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">To Top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Introduction Karshi (Uzbek: Qarshi,) is a city in southern Uzbekistan. It is the capital of Qashqadaryo Province and has a population of 197,600 (1999 census estimate). It is about 520 km south-southwest of Tashkent, and about 335 km north of Uzbekistan&#8217;s border with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[11,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}