See also:

• TASHKENT, or TASHKEND

TASHKENT, or TASHKEND  , one of the largest and most important cities of See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian Central See also:

• ASIA

Asia, and See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of Russian See also:

• TURKESTAN
• TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

Turkestan, situated in the valley of the Chirchik, some 50 M. above its confluence with the Syr-darya, in 40° 20' N., 69° 18' E . It is connected by See also:

• RAIL

rail with See also:

• KRASNOVODSK

Krasnovodsk (1085 m.) on the See also:

• CASPIAN

Caspian, and since 1905 with See also:

• ORENBURG

Orenburg (1150 M.) . The See also:

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

city, formerly enclosed by walls (now ruinous), is surrounded by luxuriant gardens, and its houses are buried among the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and other trees which grow alongside of the See also:

• IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation canals . The buildings, which are of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone and See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun-dried bricks, are mostly See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low, on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the earthquakes which frequently disturb the region . The native city in 1871 had 78,130 in-habitants, and in 1897 156,414, mostly Sarts, with Uzbegs, See also:

• KIRGHIZ

Kirghiz, See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews, Russians and Germans . The Russian city, to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east, dating from 1865, has clean, broad streets lined with poplars, and canals, the low • asant-looking houses being surrounded by gardens . In its See also:

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

population, ex- clusive of the military, was 4860, mo- ussians, and in 1900 about 25,000 . See also:

• TASHKENT, or TASHKEND

Tashkent has a pub • library containing a valuable collection of See also:

• WORKS

works on Central Asia, an astronomical See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory and a museum .