Defined as the .town of the boar. or the more enigmatic "City of Winds", Kokand lent its name to the powerful 19th century khanate stretching from the Ferghana Valley to Tashkent and the southern Kazakh steppes. Though young compared to other Ferghana towns, Kokand quickly blossomed into a prosperous trading and religious center, contesting the spoils of Central Asia with the khanates of Bukhara and Khiva.
