Bukhara
Proper noun
Meaning
Bukhara
A city in Uzbekistan, founded in the 6th century BCE.
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According to official statistics (2000), Surxondaryo Province accounts for 24.4% of all Tajiks in Uzbekistan, with another 34.3% in Samarqand and Bukhara provinces.
A meal at specialty restaurants such as Ottimo, Bukhara, Dum Pukht, etc.
Arguably the first recorded travel through the region is the involuntary journey of the slave Filipp Efremov (an ethnic Russian), who escaped from slavery in Bukhara.
Bukhara Cotton Textile has also exported $5 million merchandise to the US, UK, Turkey and Germany.
At the beginning of the 19th century they belonged to Bukhara; but under the emir Dost Mahommed the Afghans recovered Balkh and Tashkurgan in 1850, Akcha and the four western khanates in 1855, and Kunduz in 1859.
However, before the Emir of Bukhara could capitalize on this discontent, the Russian army arrived.