Seismic Hazard and Building Vulnerability in Uzbekistan

Abstract

The first records about the city Tashkent are found in Chinese literature of the 2^nd century BC, in which the Tashkent oasis is called Uni and described as a territory of the state Kangyui. Uni was considered the center of the oasis. In the ancient Persian literature, the name of the Tashkent oasis, Chach, appears in the year 262. Later in the Turkish literature, the city appears as Tash or Chachkent. In the 8^th century, the city of Chach was burned and it was revived as the city Shash or Binkent in the 10^th century. From the end of the 10th century to the middle of the 12^th century, the city was part of the state of Karakhanids and became the capital city named Tashkent, which means ”rock city“ in the Turkish language. In 1867, Tashkent became the center of a region known as Turkestan Guberniya, and in 1930, it became the capital of Uzbekistan.