Mausoleums2 km away
Chopon Ota Mausoleum
A late-eighteenth-century shrine in Tashkent's Chilanzar district, dedicated to Chopon Ota, the legendary patron of shepherds and their flocks.
Foziltepa
An ancient settlement mound on the western edge of Tashkent, lived on from the 4th to the 8th and again in the 10th–12th centuries.
Archaeology4th–8th and 10th–12th centuries
About the place
Foziltepa, also called Kangli-kurgan, is a steep-sided hill about 20 metres high on land watered by the Izzasoy stream. An open village grew here in the 4th–6th centuries and a small fortress in the 7th–8th, in the farming district around the capital of the ancient Shash region. It was abandoned after the Arab conquest and partly resettled in the 10th–12th centuries.
Archaeologists led by M. I. Filanovich studied it in 1968. What remains is the mound itself, of interest mainly to visitors who follow the early history of Tashkent.
Why go
- Traces of Tashkent before the Arab conquest
- Settlement layers spanning eight centuries
- Off the usual route, on the city's western edge
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