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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Grant Hutchison"
<granthutchison@b...> wrote:
> > There are, as far as I know, six enclaves within Kyrgyzstan: two
> > Tajik ones (the ones mentioned), and four Uzbek ones.
>
> Here
> http://eng.gateway.kg/batken
> there is a description of seven enclaves in Kyrgyzstan, albeit
> slightly hazy in the detail:
> Vorukh and "western Qalacha" are Tajik, and we know about them.
> Qalacha and Sokh are Uzbek enclaves in the Sokh valley, again known
> to us. Uzbek Shakhimardan is also known, and by a process of
> elimination I'm led to think that the "part of Kalmion village"
> mentioned on the above site is the small Uzbek enclave NW of
> Shakhimardan.
>
> That leaves a 40ha Uzbek enclave near Tayan, south of Sokh, as
> something definitely new to me.
>
> Grant
And it's new to me, too. I can find Tajan on the 500k map
http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Centr._Asia/Topo%20maps_500k/J-42-B.jpg
(practically on the Soch enclave border), but not the enclave. Maybe
another one that "formed" after the SU collapsed. Or maybe the map is
just not detailed enough.
Peter S.