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Tashkent

[ tahsh-kent, tash-; Russian tuh-shkyent ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Uzbekistan, in the NE part.


Tashkent

/ taʃˈkjɛnt /

noun

  1. the capital of Uzbekistan: one of the oldest and largest cities in central Asia; cotton textile manufacturing. Pop: 2 160 000 (2005 est) Uzbek nameToshkent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He borrowed their satellite phone and contacted the CIA in Tashkent, who relayed his situation to Team Alpha.

Notwithstanding these assurances, Tashkent was captured on the 29th June of the following year.

Such were the two men who, in the latter days of 1864, set out from Tashkent for the recovery of a kingdom.

This letter produced a great impression at Tashkent, and it was resolved to send an ambassador to Kashgar.

Had a prompt move been made on Tashkent, or even on Hodjent, the insurrection might have been successful.

It is served by both the Transcaspian and the Orenburg-Tashkent railways.

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