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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 Uzbek ethnicity; Abdulla Aripov, current Prime Minister; Komil Allamjonov, Press secretary of the President of Uzbekistan
As with other ethnic groups in the United States, Uzbek Americans also have several cultural associations. The Central Asian Foundation, established in July 2015, is a non-profit organization that promotes the social welfare of its members by developing and fostering cultural and social awareness and relations between the American and Central Asian communities in the United States.
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. [ 128 ] A 2015 study estimates some 10,000 Muslim Uzbek converted to Christianity , most of them belonging to some sort of evangelical or charismatic Protestant ...
Sobir Rahmonov (1910–1990) — a famous theater actor, People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1961) [27] Usmon Nosir (1912–1944)- The talented poet Usmon Nosir who entered the Uzbek literature of the 20th century as a thunder and lived a very short creative life as a lightning. He was born on November 13, 1912, in Namangan.
Ziyoda O’tkirovna Qobilova (Uzbek: Ziyoda O’tkirovna Qobilova, Зиёда Ўткировна Қобилова) (born 7 January 1989), most commonly known by her stage name Ziyoda, is a popular Uzbek singer, actress and honored artist of Uzbekistan. [1] [2] She sings in Uzbek, Hindi and Persian.
Babur was born on 14 February 1483 in the city of Andijan, Fergana Valley, contemporary Uzbekistan. He was the eldest son of Umar Shaikh Mirza II , [ 28 ] ruler of the Fergana Valley, the son of Abū Saʿīd Mirza (and grandson of Miran Shah , who was himself son of Timur ) and his wife Qutlugh Nigar Khanum , daughter of Yunus Khan , the ruler ...
Banākat, Banākath, Fanākat, or Fanākath was a town on the upper Syr Darya in Transoxiana (present-day Uzbekistan, Central Asia). The second part of these names, kat or kath , is an Eastern Iranian ( Soghdian ) compound meaning town .
This is a list of notable people from the Tajik ethnic group, an Eastern Iranic people native to modern day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. This list also includes other closely associated ethnicities to Tajiks.