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History

Tashkent has very ancient origins, the first settlements near the Circik river oasis date back to the 5-3 century BC. For a long time it was controlled by the nomadic peoples of Turkestan, until it was occupied by the Chinese. From the 5th century AD onwards it entered the Sogdian cultural orbit, subsequently it was conquered by the Arabs in 750. In 1219 the city was destroyed by Genghis Khan, only to be rebuilt a few years later. In 1809 the city was annexed to the Kokand Khanate, of which it was part until 1865, when it was annexed to the Russian Empire. In 1889 it was connected to the rest of Russia with the construction of the Trans-Caspian railway. At the fall of the Russian Empire Tashkent became part of the USSR, first as the capital of the autonomous RSS of Turkestan and, later, of the RSS of Uzbekistan, from which the Bolsheviks moved to conquer the emirate of Bukhara. During the Second World War, many industries from the cities occupied by Nazi Germany were moved to the city. On 25 April 1966 the city was hit by a violent earthquake (7.5 on the Richter scale), which left over 300,000 people homeless.