Vabkent
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Vabkent is a town in the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 and the capital of Vabkent district. It is famous for a minaret constructed in 1196–1198, under the reign of Ala ad-Din Tekish.

Vabkent is situated ca. 28 km from the city of Bukhara. The population of Vabkent in 2004 was 16.600. It has textile industry and poultry.

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