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  1. Complete the sentence about Tashkent with the correct year: After Genghis Khan destroyed the city in ______, it was rebuilt and profited from its location on the Silk Road.
  2. Complete the sentence about Tashkent with the correct year: In ______, Tashkent fell to the Russian Empire; as a result, it became the capital of Russian Turkestan.
  3. Complete the sentence about Tashkent with the correct year: Much of Tashkent was destroyed in the ______ Tashkent earthquake, but it was soon rebuilt as a model Soviet city.
  4. Complete the sentence about Namangan with the correct year: The residents of the ancient city of Akhsikat, which was severely damaged by an earthquake, moved to the then-village of Namangan in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Namangan with the correct year: On the eve of the Russian invasion in ______, the town had been a part of the Khanate of Kokand since the middle of the 18th century.
  6. Complete the sentence about Fergana with the correct year: In ______, after the Soviet Union's reconquest of the region from the Basmachi movement, the name was changed to Fergana, after the province…
  7. Complete the sentence about Nukus with the correct year: Nukus developed from a small settlement in ______ into a large, modern Soviet city with broad avenues and big public buildings by the 1950s.
  8. Complete the sentence about Kokand with the correct year: The present city began as a fort in ______ on the site of another older fortress called Eski-Kurgan.
  9. Complete the sentence about Kokand with the correct year: In ______, it became the capital of an Uzbek kingdom, the Khanate of Kokand, which reached as far as Kyzylorda to the west and Bishkek to the…
  10. Complete the sentence about Termez with the correct year: In ______ after a two-day siege, the city was destroyed by the troops of Genghis Khan.
  11. Complete the sentence about Termez with the correct year: In ______, the Russian Empire began to operate a brown water navy on the Amu Darya River.
  12. Complete the sentence about Termez with the correct year: In December ______, the Amu Darya Fleet was joined by the 31st Amu Darya Border Brigade.
  13. Complete the sentence about Urgench with the correct year: In ______, a number of major sports facilities were built in the city for the Republic Sports Competitions "Umid Nihollari" held in Khorezm.
  14. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh with the correct year: After the fall of the Samanid's around the year ______, Jizzakh fell under the rule of the Kara-Khanid Khanate.
  15. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh with the correct year: After their conquest of Samarkand in ______, the Seljuk Empire forced the western khanate to submit to their rule.
  16. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh with the correct year: Jizzakh next fell under the control of the Khwarazmian Empire, who began as vassals to the Seljuks but eventually managed to become fully ind…
  17. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh with the correct year: Despite being a key piece of the great Mongol Empire, the Chagatai Khanate began to fragment as early as the year ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh with the correct year: In ______, the tribal chief Qazaghan killed Qazan and set up a puppet Khan, Danishmandchi.
  19. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh with the correct year: In ______, after defeating his rivals in the region, Timur took control of Transoxiana, including Jizzakh.
  20. Complete the sentence about Chirchiq with the correct year: The city was founded in ______, when several local villages grew together as a consequence of the construction of a hydroelectric power stat…
  21. Complete the sentence about Rishton with the correct year: In late ______, a handloom weavers shop in Rishton, belonging to Thomas Duxbury may have been the first place that the cotton cloth calico wa…
  22. Complete the sentence about Rishton with the correct year: Prior to the creation of Hyndburn district in ______, Rishton had been an urban district, with its own council.
  23. Complete the sentence about Rishton with the correct year: The Blackburn Southern Bypass section of the M65 motorway opened in December ______, bypassing the A678.
  24. Complete the sentence about Asaka, Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______, Assake was renamed Zelensk, after a local official.
  25. Complete the sentence about Asaka, Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______, it was granted town status and again renamed, this time Leninsk, after Vladimir Lenin.
  26. Complete the sentence about Asaka, Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______, the first automobile assembly plant in Central Asia was built in Asaka by UzDaewooAuto, an Uzbekistani-South Korean join…
  27. Complete the sentence about Kattakurgan with the correct year: In ______ both entities were dissolved by the Soviet regime, and Katta-Kurgan was incorporated in the new Uzbek SSR.
  28. Complete the sentence about Registan with the correct year: In ______, with the backing of the Chagatai Khanate, then based in Tashkent, Muhammad Shaybani conquered Samarkand and Bukhara from their la…
  29. Complete the sentence about Registan with the correct year: The founder of the dynasty then turned on his benefactors and in ______ took old Tashkent.
  30. Complete the sentence about Registan with the correct year: The Shaybanids stopped the advance of the Safavids, who in ______ had defeated the Aq Qoyunlus.
  31. Complete the sentence about Gur-e-Amir with the correct year: The construction of the mausoleum began in ______ after the sudden death of Muhammad Sultan, Timur's heir apparent and his beloved grandso…
  32. Complete the sentence about Gur-e-Amir with the correct year: In ______, after a military campaign against the Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Sultan, Timur's heir to the throne, died.
  33. Complete the sentence about Bibi-Khanym Mosque with the correct year: When Timur returned from his military campaign in ______ the mosque was almost completed.
  34. Complete the sentence about Bibi-Khanym Mosque with the correct year: In ______ the government of the then-Uzbek SSR began the complex reconstruction of the mosque.
  35. Complete the sentence about Shah-i-Zinda with the correct year: The Mausoleum of ______, on the right, restricts the same passage from the east.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ulugh Beg Observatory with the correct year: In ______, the Russian archaeologist Vassily Vyatkin uncovered the remains of the observatory.
  37. Complete the sentence about Kalyan Minaret with the correct year: In ______, the minaret suffered damage by Soviet bombardment in the Bukhara operation.
  38. Complete the sentence about Kalyan Minaret with the correct year: In ______, to the 2500th anniversary of Bukhara, the minaret was thoroughly reconstructed and restored by the best masters.
  39. Complete the sentence about Po-i-Kalyan with the correct year: In ______, the Karakhanid ruler Arslan-khan completed construction on the cathedral mosque with the minaret.
  40. Complete the sentence about Po-i-Kalyan with the correct year: In ______ the nephew of Shaibani-khan, the young prince Muizz ad-Din Abu-l Gazi Ubaidullah, became sultan of Bukhara.
  41. Complete the sentence about Po-i-Kalyan with the correct year: Until ______, Ubaidullah-sultan was a successful governor of Bukhara, when he was enthroned as a khan of the entire Shaibanid state, i.e.
  42. Complete the sentence about Ark of Bukhara with the correct year: The Ark was used as a fortress until it fell to the Soviet Union in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Lyab-i Hauz with the correct year: In ______ Yalantush-biy, who virtually independently governed Samarkand, had begun the construction of the Sher-Dor Madrasa.
  44. Complete the sentence about Ak-Saray Palace with the correct year: In ______, the palace was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  45. Complete the sentence about Aral Sea with the correct year: In a Kazakhstani effort to save and replenish the North Aral Sea, the Dike Kokaral dam was completed in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Syr Darya with the correct year: After the ______ fall of the Soviet Union, this system disintegrated and the Central Asian nations have failed to reinstate it.
  47. Complete the sentence about Kyzylkum Desert with the correct year: Kyzylkum Nature Reserve in Bukhara Region was established in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Tian Shan with the correct year: The Tian Shan's glaciers are rapidly receding, losing 27% or 5.4 billion tons of ice since ______— nearly four times the global average of…
  49. Complete the sentence about Pamir Mountains with the correct year: In ______, Bento de Goes travelled from Kabul to Yarkand and left a meager report on the Pamirs.
  50. Complete the sentence about Sarygamysh Lake with the correct year: The last time the waters of the Amu Darya directly entered the basin was during the flood of ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Samarqand Region with the correct year: Samarkand Region was established on 15 January ______, and is divided into 14 administrative districts and two district-level cities…
  52. Complete the sentence about Karakalpakstan with the correct year: Karakalpakstan was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Khanate of Khiva in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Karakalpakstan with the correct year: Under Soviet rule, it was an autonomous area within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before becoming part of Uzbekista…
  54. Complete the sentence about Surxondaryo Region with the correct year: Established on 6 March ______, it borders on Qashqadaryo Region internally, and Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan externall…
  55. Complete the sentence about Jizzakh Region with the correct year: Jizzakh Region was formerly a part of Sirdaryo Region but was given separate status in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Saiga antelope with the correct year: The scientific name Capra tatarica was coined by Carl Linnaeus in ______ in the 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
  57. Complete the sentence about Saiga antelope with the correct year: In ______, American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson classified both in the tribe Saigini under the same subfamily, Caprinae.
  58. Complete the sentence about Saiga antelope with the correct year: A ______ study revealed that a steep decline has occurred in the genetic variability of the saiga since the late Pleistocene-Holocene…
  59. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: The genus name Uncia was proposed by John Edward Gray in ______ for Asian cats with a long and thick tail.
  60. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: Felis irbis was proposed by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in ______, based on a skin of a female snow leopard collected in the Altai Mou…
  61. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: Felis uncioides was proposed by Thomas Horsfield in ______ based on a snow leopard skin from Nepal in the collection of the Museum of th…
  62. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: Uncia uncia was the scientific name used by Reginald Innes Pocock in ______ to denote the species when he reviewed skins and skulls of v…
  63. Complete the sentence about Turan tiger with the correct year: The Caspian tiger population was regarded as a distinct subspecies and assessed as extinct in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Turan tiger with the correct year: Felis virgata was a scientific name used by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in ______ for the greyish tiger in the area surrounding the Caspi…
  65. Complete the sentence about Turan tiger with the correct year: Felis tigris lecoqi and Felis tigris trabata were proposed by Ernst Schwarz in ______ for tiger skins and skulls from Lop Nur and Ili Riv…
  66. Complete the sentence about Turan tiger with the correct year: In ______, Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger to the genus Panthera.
  67. Complete the sentence about Savitsky Museum with the correct year: The Nukus Museum of Art was established in ______ at the behest of Igor Savitsky, who became the museum's first curator.
  68. Complete the sentence about Toprak-Kala with the correct year: The ruins of the city were explored by the Chorasmian Expedition under the guidance of Sergey Tolstov in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Silk Road with the correct year: The first book entitled The Silk Road was by Swedish geographer Sven Hedin in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Chorsu Bazaar with the correct year: Kukeldash Madrasah, built around ______, is located at the edge of the bazaar.
  71. Complete the sentence about Chorsu Bazaar with the correct year: The modern building and the characteristic blue dome were designed by Vladimir Azimov, Sabir Adylov et al. in ______, as a late example…
  72. Complete the sentence about Tashkent TV Tower with the correct year: The tower began operating six years later, on 15 January ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Tashkent TV Tower with the correct year: The decision to construct the tower was made on 1 September ______ in order to spread TV and radio signals throughout Uzbekistan.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Tashkent? From the 18th to the 19th centuries, the city became an independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of ______.
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Namangan? Namangan is located in the northern edge of the ______ Valley, less than 30 km from the border with Kyrgyzstan.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Namangan? Namangan has been an important craft and trade center in the ______ Valley since the 17th century.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Namangan? On the eve of the Russian invasion in 1867, the town had been a part of the Khanate of ______ since the middle of the 18th century.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Andijan? Andijan is located in a tense border region at the south-eastern edge of the ______ Valley near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Andijan? At more than 2,500 years in age, Andijan is the oldest city in Uzbekistan and one of the oldest cities in the ______ Valley.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Fergana? Archaeological materials confirm that the city of ______ was a large village in the 10th century and took on the appearance of a hamlet in the 11th a…
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Kokand? The city, along with most of the eastern ______ Valley, was included in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1920s as part of national delimitat…
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Termez? The Timurids held the territory until it became a part of the independent Emirate of ______ in the 16th century.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Urgench? New Urgench was founded by Russians in the second half of the 19th century at the site of a little trade station of the Khanate of ______.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Jizzakh? After their conquest of ______ in 1086, the Seljuk Empire forced the western khanate to submit to their rule.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Denov? And since February 2011 the Denov - ______ flight was opened, passing through the new railway track Qumqoʻrgʻon - Boysun - Tashguzar.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Asaka, Uzbekistan? Currently, it is the second biggest industrial city in ______ Region, the first being Andijan.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Urgut? Urgut's biggest market has varied and relatively inexpensive merchandise, even attracting folks from ______, the capital of the Region.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Registan? The founder of the dynasty then turned on his benefactors and in 1503 took old ______.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Gur-e-Amir? Timur had built for himself a smaller tomb in ______ near his Ak-Saray Palace.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Ulugh Beg Observatory? The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in modern day ______, Uzbekistan, which was built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ul…
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Ulugh Beg Observatory? Ulugh Beg, the son of Shah Rukh and grandson of Amir Timur, became the ruler of ______ in the 15th century AD.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Kalyan Minaret? In 1920, the minaret suffered damage by Soviet bombardment in the ______ operation.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Kalyan Minaret? In 1997, to the 2500th anniversary of ______, the minaret was thoroughly reconstructed and restored by the best masters.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Po-i-Kalyan? In 1512 the nephew of Shaibani-khan, the young prince Muizz ad-Din Abu-l Gazi Ubaidullah, became sultan of ______.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Po-i-Kalyan? Until 1533, Ubaidullah-sultan was a successful governor of ______, when he was enthroned as a khan of the entire Shaibanid state, i.e.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Lyab-i Hauz? In 1619 Yalantush-biy, who virtually independently governed ______, had begun the construction of the Sher-Dor Madrasa.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Syr Darya? In the 17th century, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan, historian and ruler of ______, called the Aral Sea the "Sea of Sïr," or Sïr Tengizi.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Syr Darya? Many fell into disuse in the 17th and early 18th century, but the Khanate of ______ rebuilt many in the 19th century, primarily along the Upper and…
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Tian Shan? The Tian Shan range extends eastwards for approximately 2,900 kilometers from ______, Uzbekistan.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Karakalpakstan? Karakalpakstan was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Khanate of ______ in 1873.

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