There are 7 enclaves in Central asia:
4 Uzbek in Kirgizia: Sokh and shakimardan are the two big ones, and each has
a very small one between it and the Uzbek border. These small ones have
barely a hamlet in them according to Soviet maps.
There are three other Tajiki enclaves, 2 in Kyrgizia and one in Uzbekistan.
The main one in Kyrgizia is Vorukh, and there is a very small one in the far
NW of the southern arm of Kyrgyzia.
The one in Uzbekistan is long and thin, running along a stream that heads
south to the valley floor. It too has a couple of tiny hamlets, barely
bigger than peasant farms. While not specifically named on maps, the names
of their hamlets will do, as this seems the common way to name enclaves.
I will try and put up some scans soon.
I am very impressed with the info on the Belrussian enclaves. Nice to get
something from a local source on these. Most useful.
Brendan
>From: Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: "BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Sokh, Vorukh, and others
>Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:56:24 +0100
>
>There are three enclaves in Kyrgyzstan that I know of by name: Sokh,
>Shakhimardan (both Uzbek), and
>Vorukh (Tadzhik). On some maps I can find another enclave in the Fergana
>valley, probably Tadzhik,
>in Uzbekistan. It is a narrow, long strip of land alongside the road from
>Angren to Kokand. Does
>anyone know the name of it?
>
>On a Russian site I found the name of two more Tadzhik enclaves (they
>didn't say within which
>state): Chorku and Surkh. Is one of them the enclave I refer to, by any
>chance? And what about the
>other?
>
>On this site: http://home.wanadoo.nl/sota/fergana.htm , there is talk of
>seven enclaves within
>Kyrgyzstan, 4 Uzbek ones (of which two are identified as Sokh and
>Shakhimardan), and 3 Tadzhik ones
>(one identified as Vorukh, and another one, not named, is probably the
>long, narrow one).
>
>Also, there should be Kyrgyz enclaves in Uzbekistan too, according to this
>news item (Kabar, Kyrgyz
>national news agency): http://www.kabar.gov.kg/english/opi/2001/2/26.html .
>Look for the item
>"Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan reached agreement on border delimitation
>issues". Anybody has names and
>locations for these?
>
>A good map of the Fergana valley would be ideal, I think.
>
>The Fergana valley has always been a virtual powder-keg, and lately even
>more so. Various news
>articles mention the existence of minefields around some of the enclaves.
>
>Peter S.
>
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