KARSHI  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• BOKHARA (Bokhara-i-Sherif)
• BOKHARA, or BUKHARA (the common central Asian pronunciation is Bukhara)

Bokhara, in Central See also:

• ASIA

Asia, situated 96 m . S.E. of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Bokhara, in a See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain at the junction of two See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main confluents of the Kashka-darya . It is a large and straggling See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, with a citadel, and the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population amounts to 25,000 . There are three colleges, and the Biki See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque is a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• BUILDING

building inlaid with See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue and See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white tiles . Along the See also:

• RIVER

river stretches a fine See also:

• PROMENADE

promenade sheltered by poplars . Poppies and See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco are largely grown, the tobacco being deemed the best in Central Asia . There is a considerable See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain; but the commercial prosperity of Karshi is mainly due to its being a See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting-point for the roads from See also:

• SAMARKAND

Samarkand, Bokhara, See also:

• HISSAR

Hissar, See also:

• BALKH

Balkh and See also:

• MAIMANA

Maimana, and serves as the See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market 'where the Turkomans and Uzbegs dispose of their carpets, knives and See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-arms . Its coppersmiths turn out excellent See also:

• WORK

work . Karshi was a favourite See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of Timur (Tamerlane) .