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... Uzbekistan . It also contained 20 autonomous soviet socialist republics - 16 within Russia , 2 within Georgia , 1 within Azerbaijan , and 1 within Uzbekistan . Its cap- ital was Moscow , then and now the capital of Russia . A brief ...
... Uzbekistan . It also contained 20 autonomous soviet socialist republics - 16 within Russia , 2 within Georgia , 1 within Azerbaijan , and 1 within Uzbekistan . Its cap- ital was Moscow , then and now the capital of Russia . A brief ...
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... Uzbekistan , but also in other parts of Central Asia and in Afghanistan . The Uzbeks speak either of two dialects of Uzbek , a Turkic language of the Altaic family of lan- guages . More than 16 million Uzbeks live in Uzbekistan ...
... Uzbekistan , but also in other parts of Central Asia and in Afghanistan . The Uzbeks speak either of two dialects of Uzbek , a Turkic language of the Altaic family of lan- guages . More than 16 million Uzbeks live in Uzbekistan ...
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... Uzbekistan has been a noted centre of Muslim culture . Outstand- ing medieval scholars who came from the area now known as Uzbekistan include Mūsā Khwārezmi , a 9th - century mathematician ; Abu Reikhan al - Bīrūni ( 973-1048 ) , a 10th ...
... Uzbekistan has been a noted centre of Muslim culture . Outstand- ing medieval scholars who came from the area now known as Uzbekistan include Mūsā Khwārezmi , a 9th - century mathematician ; Abu Reikhan al - Bīrūni ( 973-1048 ) , a 10th ...
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