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People living in the area of modern Uzbekistan were first converted to Islam as early as the 8th century, as Arabs conquered the area, displacing the earlier faiths of the region. [ 127 ] A 2015 study estimates some 10,000 Muslim Uzbek converted to Christianity , most of them belonging to some sort of evangelical or charismatic Protestant ...
Uzbekistan, [a] officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, [b] is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.
Raʼno Abdullayeva, prominent leader of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan; Islam Karimov, first President of Uzbekistan; Shavkat Mirziyoyev, current President of Uzbekistan; Muhammad Yunus Nawandish, was the Mayor of Kabul from after his appointment by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in January 2010; Abdul Rashid Dostum, former Afghan warlord of ...
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Uzbekistan is Central Asia's most populous country. Its 36.8 million people (as of January 2024 [5]) comprise nearly half the region's total population. The population of Uzbekistan is very young: 30.1% of its people are younger than 14. [6] According to official sources, Uzbeks comprise a majority (84.4%) of the total population.
In 1938 A. Okladnikov discovered the 70,000-year-old skull of an 8- to 11-year-old Neanderthal child in Teshik-Tash in Uzbekistan. [4] After this Central Asia was occupied by the Scythians, Iranian nomads who arrived from the northern grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan sometime in the first millennium BC.
also: Countries: Uzbekistan: People: Subcategories. This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total. People by organization ...
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.