Guliston, city in Uzbekistan
Guliston is an administrative city in the Sirdaryo Region in eastern Uzbekistan with about 100,000 residents. The city has a flat landscape with simple, practical streets and buildings in warm tones, surrounded by plain farmland that stretches in all directions.
The city began as a small village called Achchikkuduk with only a few houses, a mosque, and a teahouse in the 19th century. A canal project starting in 1872 brought water from nearby rivers and transformed the dry land into fertile farmland, spurring settlement and city growth.
The name Guliston comes from Persian and means "land of flowers", reflecting a tradition of describing the place as one of beauty and nature. This naming shows how the city expresses its connection to the landscape and natural prosperity.
The city is flat and easy to navigate on foot, with simple straight streets running parallel to the railway tracks. Visitors can take small buses called marshrutkas or walk to explore local markets, shops, and the railway station area, which forms the hub of activity.
The city became an official city only in 1961 and was previously called Mirzachoʻl and Qayroqqum by different names. The transformation of once extremely dry land called the Hungry Steppe into productive farmland through human effort in canal building is a remarkable story of land adaptation.
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