A SURVEY OF UZBEK SETTLEMENT, WITH REGARD TO SOME ECONOMIC AND SHELTER CHANGES, İN THE KHWARIZM (KHIVA) OASIS, NORTH TO THE DELTA OF THE AMU DARYA, BASED ON RUSSIAN ETHNORGRAPHIC REPPORTS

1 K. L. Zadykhina, "Uzbeki del'ty Amu Dar'i," Trudy Khorezmskoi Archeologo-Etnograficheskoi Ekspeditsii, I, Moskva: Izd. Akad. Nauk SSR, 1952 (General ed. S. P. Tolstov, assisted by T. A. Zhdanko.), p. 319. (The principal source of material for this paper is Zadykhina's report of which there is an unpublished and unedited ms. transld. by Lawrence Krader at HRAF, New Haven.) Harold R. Battersby, The Uzbek Novel as a Source of Information Concerning Material Culture, Dissertation, İndiana University, Bloomington, 1969, p. 131. "The Khorezmian Oblast' in the southvvest part of Uzbekistan, along the left bank of the Iower course of the AmaDarya, is densely populated, and surrounded by vast expanses of sand. The oblast' occupies an area of 4,600 sq. kilometres, whieh amounts to 1.1 per cent of the total territory of Uzbekistan, while 5.5 per cent of the population of the Republic dwell here. This is one of the most densely populated oblasts of the Uzbek S.S.R., with 75 people per sq. kilometre. The Khorezmian Oblast' is a region of cotton growing and well-developed livestock raising." Zadykhina, op. cit., pp. 280, 281.