Travel Guide Jizzakh

Halfway between Tashkent and Samarkand, Jizzakh was one of the stopover cities on the Silk Road. Archaeological excavations have brought to light a site dating from the5th century, a fortress of which unfortunately there is almost nothing left to see. The city occupied a place of strategic importance, at the junction between the valley of Zeravshan with its rich oases including Samarkand and Bukhara, and the mountains of Turkestan. The ancient city has completely disappeared and the greatest glory of the new Jizzakh is that it was the birthplace of Sharaf Rashidov who led Soviet Uzbekistan from the late 1950s until perestroika.