Kosom

Kosom belongs to the irrigated country of Transoxiana associated with Bukhara, where towns and farming settlements depended on the careful distribution of river water. Fields, gardens, and orchards supplied food and commercial crops, while markets brought together cultivators, craftsmen, and merchants. Roads connected local production with the larger urban centers of Central Asia. Pastoral communities from surrounding country contributed animals and other goods, creating an economy built on exchange between different ways of life. Before the Mongol conquest a fortified settlement stood here, and occupation was later interrupted. Life revived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the place developed trade and crafts on a caravan route.