Pop

Pop, also called Pap, lies near the Syr Darya on the western approach to the Fergana Valley. Its ancient settlement, known as Balandtepa, preserves traces of a long urban history. Medieval geographers named the town among the inhabited places on the northern Fergana trade route. Its position near the river and the entrance to the valley made it a meeting point between the cultivated lands of Fergana and the routes leading west through the mountains.