Margilon

Margilan in Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. According to European legend, Margilan was founded with the aid of Alexander the Great. On a lunch forestall, he become given chicken and bread, from which the city took its name. More dependable information indicate that Margilan turned into an vital forestall at the Silk Road by using the 9th century AD, along the course going throughout the Alay Mountains to Kashgar. Writing within the early sixteenth century, the founder of the Mughal dynasty, Babur, mentioned that “the pomegranates and apricots are incredible.

The sport in Margilan is good; white deer can be discovered close by. The humans are Sarts. They are a feisty human beings, prepared with their fists. The custom of exorcism is full-size throughout Transoxiana, and most of the famend exorcists of Samarkand and Bukhara are Margilanis. The writer of the Hidaya Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani was from a Margilan village known as Rishtan”. This popularity for toughness extends to fashionable times. Margilan merchants were key players in Central Asian commerce, and were said to be a regulation unto themselves at some stage in Soviet days, while Margilan changed into the coronary heart of Uzbekistan’s black marketplace. Margilan these days is likewise a stronghold of conservative Islam.