Tours, Attractions and Things To Do in Tashkent Tashkent Travel Guide

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Tours, Attractions and Things To Do in Tashkent 
Tashkent Travel Guide 
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and is a metropolis of over 2.5 million people. The city is 
set out as a grid of straight, wide streets and avenues, interspersed with many green areas (parks, 
squares, and gardens) and fountains. 
This marvelous city embodies the modern elegance of many other capitals of the world; at the 
same time, as an eastern city, Tashkent has its own unique flavour. It tastefully combines 
medieval buildings that look like they’re from the pages of ancient oriental tales, with elegant 
European architecture from the time of the Turkestan governorship, concrete ‘blocks’ from the 
Soviet era and, finally, sparkling high-rise commercial buildings made of glass and concrete that 
represent a new era of independent Uzbekistan. 
History of Tashkent 
Tashkent is one of the oldest cities on the Great Silk Road between China and Europe. The 
earliest references to Tashkent as a city settlement appeared in written sources in the 2nd century 
BC. In the Chinese annals the city is called Yueni or Shi; in the records of the Persian king, 
Shampur, it appears as Chach; and in other Arabic sources, Shash. The name Tashkent first 
appeared in Turkish documents of the 9th to 12th centuries. 

From ancient times, a favourable geographical position and mild climate made Tashkent one of 

the main Silk Road cities. In the 14–15th centuries it was the part of the Timurid Empire, and in 
the 16th century it was under the control of the Sheibanids dynasty. In 1865, after the conquest 
of Mikhail Chernyaev, Russian military leader, the city became under the rule of the Russian 
Empire and Russian government was established here. In 1930 Tashkent was declared the capital 
of Uzbekistan, former Uzbek SSR.