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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANDIJAN

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 965 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANDIJAN , a town of
Russian
 
Turkestan
 , Province of Ferghana, eastern terminus of the Transcaspian railway, 84 m. by
rail
  E.N.E. of
Khokand
 , on the left bank of the upper Syr-darya. Altitude 163o ft. Pop. (1900) 49,682. It was formerly the residence of the khans of
Khokand
 , and has beautiful gardens and a large park in the middle of the town. Andijan is a centre for the
trade
  in raw
cotton
  and has
cotton
  factories. All over Central
Asia
 , West
Turkestan
  merchants are known generally as Andijani. The town was destroyed by an
earthquake
  on the 16th-17th of December 1902, when 5000 persons perished and 16,000 houses were demolished. It has since been rebuilt.


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