Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures' has mentioned 'Uzbeks' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| See also: Uzbeks xc2xa7xc2xa0Russo-Soviet era | WIKI |
| According to official reports, a majority of Samarkand's inhabitants are Uzbeks, who are a Turkic people. | WIKI |
| However, most "Uzbeks" are in fact Tajiks, who are an Iranian people, even though their passports list their ethnicity as Uzbek. | WIKI |
| Ethnic Uzbeks are the second-largest group[69] and are most concentrated in the west of Samarkand. | WIKI |
| Exact demographic figures are difficult to obtain, since some people in Uzbekistan identify as "Uzbek" even though they speak Tajiki as their first language, often because they are registered as Uzbeks by the central government despite their Tajiki language and identity. | WIKI |
| Thus, for example, in the 1920 census in Samarkand city the Tajiks were recorded as numbering 44,758 and the Uzbeks only 3301. | WIKI |
| According to the 1926 census, the number of Uzbeks was recorded as 43,364 and the Tajiks as only 10,716. | WIKI |
| in Asht, Kalacha, Akjar i Tajik and others, in the 1926 census they were registered as Uzbeks. | WIKI |
| Uzbek is one of the Turkic languages and the mother tongue of Uzbeks, Turkmens, Samarkandian Iranians, and most Samarkandian Arabs living in Samarkand. | WIKI |
| Approximately 80-85% of Muslims in the city are Sunni, comprising almost all Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Samarqandian Arabs living therein. | WIKI |
| Samarkandian Shiites also include Azerbaijanis, as well as small numbers of Tajiks and Uzbeks. | WIKI |