Kitob District "Gyps fulvus", "Aegypius monachus", "Aquila chrysaetos" and "Gypaetus barbatus". Animals include "Hystrix leucura"(Indian crested porcupine), "Canis lupus"(Grey wolf), "Vulpes vulpes" (Red fox), "Ursus arctos isabellinus" (Himalayan brown bear), "Martes foina" (Stone Marten), "Meles meles" (European badger) and "Sus scrofa"(wild boar). Kitob District Kitob District (Uzbek: Kitob tumani) is a district of Qashqadaryo Region in Uzbekistan. The capital lies at Kitab. The district is mainly located on the southern slopes of the Zarafshan Range. The population of the district is overwhelming Tajik, with the Kitob town being almost entirely inhabited by that ethnic group. In 1979, the Kitab Zapovednik (Geological) reserve
River Meles River Meles The river Meles () (more appropriately described as "Meles Brook") is a stream charged with history and famous in literature, especially by virtue of being associated in a common and consistent tradition with Homer's birth and works, and which flowed by the ancient city of Smyrna, and a namesake of which flows through the present-day metropolitan center of İzmir. The exact location of the Homeric Meles and whether or not that stream corresponds to the one (actually the ones, since different sources, even at official level, have adopted different streams under that name) called Meles today continues to