Place · city
Osh
Osh is the second largest city of Kyrgyzstan, on the eastern edge of the Fergana Valley. One of the oldest cities of Central Asia, it lay on the Silk Road, and its Sulaiman-Too mountain has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries and is now a World Heritage Site. The city has a large Uzbek population, and it suffered ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in 1990 and 2010.
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