Gurlan

Gurlen or Gurlan is a city and seat of Gurlen District in Xorazm Region in Uzbekistan. It is placed near the border with Turkmenistan in western Uzbekistan, 42 kilometres north-west of Urgench, north of Shovot, and south of the Amu Darya river. Gurlen is a prime centre for cotton manufacturing, and rice and yams also are huge other crops. Gurlen became one of the medieval cities of Khorezm. A fortress changed into built about 7 kilometres north of Gurlen referred to as Taza Vazir. The Hanafi jurist of Khwarezm, Jalal advert-Din Kurlani, is from Gurlen.In the early nineteenth century, it become a famous merchant city of the Khanate of Khiva.

Gurlen featured a New Method school from 1905 to 1911 which encountered excessive conservative opposition. In the 1820s, it changed into a famous merchant metropolis of Khiva Khanate. After the 1917 Russian Revolution the Khanate of Khiva become abolished, and Gurlen became eventually covered into the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Bukhara, characterised as the nucleus of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, contained the part of Khorezm located within a triangle fashioned by Gurlen-Khiva-Pitniyak. Gurlen become a part of Khorezm Oblast, which was abolished on September 29, 1926, and the center of Gurlen District. After 1926, Gurlen and the district have been at once subordinated to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.