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Region
Fergana
The most fertile and most crowded corner of the country, and the workshop of Uzbek craft: silk in Margilan, ceramics in Rishtan, and the devzira rice that plov cooks insist on.
- Administrative centre
- Fergana
- Area
- 6,760 km²
Rishtan ceramics
What to see
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Yodgorlik silk factory, Margilan
Ikat silk still tie-dyed and woven by hand, thread by thread.
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Rishtan ceramics
A thousand years of turquoise glaze made from local clay and ash.
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Khudayar Khan Palace, Kokand
The last khan's palace, its façade a wall of coloured tile.