General Resources: Uzbekistan

Created and maintained by the
African & Middle Eastern Division,
Collections and Services Directorate

The sites listed below and in all following sections have been chosen for their utility in providing accurate narrative (either brief or extensive) information, as well as directories and extensive portals concerning all aspects of Uzbek life and culture. They originate both in Uzbekistan and in various other countries. All of these sites are either English language alone or bilingual, unless noted in an annotation which follows. As the links to Uzbekistan, and the NIS countries in general, often are inactive, we recommend that you try again if you are not successful in connecting. The following general resources offer brief and extensive narratives on all aspects of Uzbekistan in general as well as a variety of extensive portal pages created both in and outside of Uzbekistan.

Address/Telephone Directories from Central Asia at the Library of Congress
( http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/phoneca/caphone.html)
This is a finding aid for telephone directories from the countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It consists of over 60 entries representing the Library of Congress' uncataloged holdings of Soviet and post-Soviet era titles as of January 2007. It is arranged by country, then by city, and then by the year prominently displayed on the cover of the piece.

Britannica.com (http://www.britannica.com/)
Features complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, more than 125,000 reviewed Web sites with links, articles from over 70 magazines, a search engine for the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and daily news from the Washington Post via washingtonpost.com.

CIA -- The World Factbook - Uzbekistan (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)

Central Asian Studies World Wide. (http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu)
Academic resources for the study of Central Asia maintained by Harvard University.

Infoplease.com (http://www.infoplease.com/)

U.S. Department of State - Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.

Uzbekistan -- A Country Study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/uztoc.html)

Uzbekistan Central Government Web Site (http://www.gov.uz)

Washington Post.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)
Search under the name of the country for a listing of articles on it as they are published in the Washington Post.

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March 12, 2007

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