TOPONYMS OF THE OLD CITY OF TASHKENT

Abstract

Toponyms of Tashkent as any other city, reflecting its historical development, its political and economic life. Therefore, the question of the origin of the names of many Toponyms are relevant and important in the study of the history of the settlement. According to archeological data the ancient settlement "Shash-tepe" came here in the first centuries BC For the first time the name of Tashkent is mentioned in written sources, otno¬syaschihsya to the tenth century. BC With respect to the etymology of the name of the city, there are several hypotheses and assumptions. According to our research the word "Chach" (in Arabic writing, "Shash") of Iranian origin and has the following values: "crowding the place; filled to the limit of something; a lot of something, gathered in one place. " Hence, the name "Shashkent" or Tashkent means crowding, densely populated city (originally - densely populated area). Based on the names of the mahalla, we can say that the original inhabitants of the city said on the Tajik-Iranian languages. A significant portion of names appears in XYIII - early nineteenth centuries. Main city population were craftsmen and merchants. Some names indicate the former Mahalla the ethnic composition of the townspeople. Many of the place names reflect terrain, topographic features. In Tashkent, there were Sufi brotherhoods. The city lived under the Muslim Sharia law.