Jalalabad

Jalalabad belongs to the eastern Fergana world, where mountain foothills meet one of Central Asia's productive irrigated basins. Water drawn from upland rivers supported grain, gardens and orchards, while nearby pasture connected settled communities with mobile herders. Roads linked the district with Andijan and other valley towns, creating opportunities for market exchange. The meeting of mountains and cultivated lowlands gave the area a role in both local production and movement towards more distant passes.

According to the city's historical account, the settlement grew near springs on Ayub-Too, visited by pilgrims and associated in local tradition with the prophet Job. A fort of the Kokand Khanate was built here in the early nineteenth century. Residents served visitors and practised farming and livestock keeping.