Republic of Uzbekistan

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Republic of Uzbekistan - a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet Uzbekistan, Uzbek IMU, Islamic Group of Uzbekistan, Islamic Party of Turkestan - a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 capital of Uzbek, Tashkent, Taskent - the capital of Uzbekistan Samarcand, Samarkand - city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century Kizil Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Qizil Qum - a desert in Uzbekistan to the southeast of the Aral Sea Asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations