Gijduvon
city
Gʻijduvon (Uzbek: Gʻijduvon, Ғиждувон; Tajik: Гиждувон; Russian: Гиждуван) is a city in the Bukhara Region of Uzbekistan and the capital of Gʻijduvon District (tuman). Its population was 38,600 in 2003, and 43,400 in 2016.
History
Archaeological evidence suggests that the settlement in what is now Gʻijduvon was established before the Arab invasion.
The village of Gʻijduvon is mentioned in historical chronicles since the 10th century. It is said that the village received water from the Harkan-rud or Kalkan-rud ditch, also mentioned by the geographers of the 10th century as The Rustak, irrigated by the aryk, was called "Lower Harkana", as opposed to "Upper Harkana" opposite Karmana. Even then it was one of the trade centers of the region, being part of the Samanid Empire.
Gʻijduvon in the 12th century was a bazaar village 6 parasangs from Bukhara. Subsequently, the tuman in which Gʻijduvon was located was called either Gʻijduvon or Harkanrud. The real popularity of the village, which later turned into a town, was brought by one of the representatives of Sufism Abdul Khaliq Ghijduwani, who lived in the XII century in the era of the Turkic dynasty of the Kara-Khanids.
The town of Tavois, founded in the early Middle Ages, competed with Gʻijduvon until the 15th century.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as city. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1027045. Authority coordinates are 40.100, 64.667. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2016.
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