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Osh (ôsh), city (1993 pop. 233,300), capital of Osh region, S Kyrgyzstan, in the Fergana Valley Fergana Valley or Ferghana Valley, region, 8,494 sq mi (22,000 sq km), divided among Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The Fergana Range (part of the Tian Shan system) rises in the northeast and the Pamir in the south. ..... Click the link for more information. . Terminus of the Osh-Khorugh highway, Osh has silk, textile, and food-processing industries. One of the oldest settlements of Central Asia, Osh was for centuries a major silk-production center, strategically situated on a trade route to India. The old city adjoins the larger modern section. The Tash-Sulayman [Solomon's throne], an odd-shaped rock, was once a place of Muslim pilgrimage. Osh was the scene of several violent Uzbek-Kyrgyz ethnic clashes in 1990. |
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