The history of karshi

The history of karshi

Q arshi oasis, ancient and medieval Nakhshab, situated in the area of continental delta of the river Qashqadaryo represents a very convenient region for irrigation-based crop-growing agriculture of ancient oriental type. However, monuments or ruins of settlements of an early crop-growing culture of Neolith and Bronze period of Qarshi oasis is not known though in neighboring regions of Bactria, Marv, in the Upper Zarafshan it is known protocities of the eneolith and bronze epoch. If there had been such places in Nakhshab then they are buried under massive thickness of agro-irrigational alluviums of Qashqadaryo. As excavations showed in Yerkurgan, Mudintepa and other bordering settlements, in the centre of Qarshi oasis cultural layers of settlements’ borders of our era are situated in depth of several meters from contemporary surrounded surface, the footprints of settlements of Neolith and Bronze, if they had been here, then it is supposed to dig deeper.
The well-known history of inhabitation of Qarshi oasis begins in the epoch of an early Iron Age. At that time at the end of II century and beginning of I century BC there was developed a new ethno cultural space of historic scene of Central Asia. The tribes of karasuk cultural traditions spread in steppe area, in the Upper and Lower Amudaryo, Syrdaryo, Zarafshan, Qashqadaryo and in other places there were formed main historic-cultural regions of Central Asia, known to us in ancient and medieval times. During this period the most ancient ethno cultural toponims of Central Asia such as Bactria, Marv, Sogd, Khwarazm and others were originated. Vast crop-growing oasis’s developed and their capital centers were surrounded by massive defense walls.
Ceramic articles of the early Iron Ages related to the beginning of the 1^stmillennium BC tended to the south and north. Qashqadaryo valley gives ceramics of Bactrian style, recent excavations in Afrasiab and Kuktepa in Samarkand gave the complex of ceramics close by type to Burgulyuk ceramics of Syrdaryo left bank. As for Nakhshab or Qarshi oasis’s, the most ancient materials of early Iron Age were found in the lowest layers of Yerkurgan settlement. Among not yet numerous findings of dish crocks of that time were found both samples with paintings on red background and ornament in red paint on light color background which can be come off during washing of these crocks in water.
Thus, the genesis of culture of early Iron Age of Sogd which in meridian direction under the ruling of Alexander Macedonian stretched from Amudaryo till Syrdaryo was heterogeneous. In the period of development of first oasis’s and cities of Sogd about half a millennium years before Alexander, the culture of the most ancient cities of Zarafshan valley was related to middle stream of Syrdaryo, and material culture of Qashqadaryo valley in its middle and upper streams were found genetic relationship with early city-culture of Bactria and Marv.

Karshi-Khanabad is an air base in southeastern Uzbekistan, just east of Karshi. It is home to the 60th Separate Mixed Aviation Brigade of the Uzbek Air Force. A section of the base serves as a commercial airport, supporting a limited number of passenger flights. History

Between 2001 and 2005 the United States Air Force used the base, also known as K2 and "Stronghold Freedom", for support missions against al-Qaeda in neighbouring Afghanistan. The 416th Air Expeditionary Operations Group was the host unit. On July 29, 2005, amid strained relations caused by the May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan, the United States was told to vacate the base within six months. It was vacated by the United States in November 2005