Kokand

American  

[ko-kand, kuh-kahnt] / kɒˈkænd, kʌˈkɑnt /

noun

1. a city in NE Uzbekistan, SE of Tashkent: formerly the center of a powerful khanate.

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Kokand British  

/ kaˈkant /

noun

1. a city in NE Uzbekistan, in the Fergana valley. Pop: 211 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Before the galloping Russian conquest of the 19th century — the Russian Empire for over four centuries expanded at a rate of roughly 20,000 square miles a year — the land of this country had been divided into two khanates: Kokand in the east and Khiva in the west.

From New York Times

It deals with the bloody rivalries of the early 19th century between the Emirs of Bukhara and the Khans of Kokand.

From Economist

Based on a famous Kyrgyz tale from the 19th century, the film tells the story of a young woman who flees an arranged marriage to eventually become the leader of Alai highlanders in the Khanate of Kokand, a kingdom that encompassed modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, southern Kazakhstan, and China's Xinjiang-Uighur autonomous region.

From The Guardian

Another map of Kokand and Bokhara was also forthcoming, and the Society had employed Messrs Butakoff and Chanykoff to prepare a complete atlas of Asia between 33° and 56° north latitude and 65° and 100° east longitude.

From Project Gutenberg

Instead of focusing on issues that could mobilize the population behind solutions to the country's ills, he planned to frame the contest as a choice between a civilized democracy and a return to the cruelty of the Kokand Khanate, which controlled much of Central Asia before the tsars.

From Salon