Asaka

Asaka is a metropolis and the administrative center of Asaka District in eastern Uzbekistan, positioned in the southeastern edge of the Fergana Valley near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan. Asaka underwent speedy industrialization all through the Soviet technology. Currently, it is the second biggest industrial town in Andijan Region, the first being Andijan. Asaka is domestic to the primary automobile meeting plant in Central Asia, namely GM Uzbekistan.

The origins of the city's name are uncertain. Some sources say that it derives from the Saka words "asvaka" or "as-saka" which mean "horse" or "horsemen", respectively. That is why a statue of a horse was erected in considered one of Asaka's squares in 1997 at some stage in the 60th anniversary of the town's founding. According to others, "Assake" is an historic time period derived from the Iranian ethnonym referring to Central Asian Scythians. It has been recognised because historical times as Assake.

The early records of Assake has no longer been studied extensively. Avaz Muhammad Attor, a 19th-century historian, mentioned Assake in his e book Tarixi jahonnoma. According to him, Khudayar Khan had built a fort within the territory of present-day Asaka. Assake started out to develop fast after the close by metropolis of Andijan and Tashkent have been linked with a railway line. At the flip of the 20th century, Assake had a population of best 2,000 people.