Which city in Uzbekistan was formerly Tamurlane's capital?
Oriental Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan Oriental Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan Oriental Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan refers to adherents of Oriental Orthodox Christianity in Uzbekistan. Since Uzbekistan has a predominant Muslim majority, Oriental Orthodox Christians and adherents of other Christian denominations in that country constitute a religious minority. Oriental Orthodox Christians in Uzbekistan are mainly ethnic Armenians, who are adherents of Armenian Apostolic Church, one of main churches of Oriental Orthodoxy. They number around 40,000, and most of them live in the capital city of Tashkent. First Armenian Oriental Orthodox church was opened in 1905, in Samarqand. The modern day Armenian community in Uzbekistan formed during the Armenian
Russians in Uzbekistan to the Committee on Statistics of the Republic of Uzbekistan, about 750,000 Russians (2.3% of the population) lived in the country. At the same time, the bulk of Russians live in large cities, and most of them live in the capital, Tashkent. Russians in Uzbekistan Russians in Uzbekistan comprised the country's second-largest ethnic group after Uzbeks, numbering 1,653,478, in 1989 representing 5.5% of the population. During the Soviet period, Russians constituted more than half the population of the capital city, Tashkent. Uzbekistan counted nearly 1.5 million Russians, 12.5% of the population, in the 1970 census. After the dissolution of the