Suzak (; / ''Сузоқ'') is a village in
Jalal-Abad Region
Jalal-Abad (; ) is a region (''oblast, oblus'') of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is the city of the same name, Jalal-Abad. It is surrounded by (clockwise from the north) Talas Region, Chüy Region, Naryn Region, Osh Region, and Uzbekistan. Jalal-Abad ...
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...
. Its population was 30,534 in 2021.
It is the administrative seat of
Suzak District
Suzak () is a Districts of Kyrgyzstan, district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat lies at Suzak. Its area is , and its resident population was 308,243 in 2021.
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History
The first mention of Suzak village is known from a map of
Eugene Schuyler
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"Map of the Khanates of
Bukhara
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People have inhabited the region around Bukhara for at least five millennia, and t ...
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Khiva
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Kokand
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and Part of Russian Turkestan" of 1875.
In 1998 a catastrophic flood of the river
Kögart destroyed around 1,000 dwellings in Suzak.
Elections in Suzak
Suzak, in addition, has anomalously high "Against All" voter turnout. Yet most anomalous are the results from Kara-Suu and Suzak both. These districts are not urban, being most rural, and are located along the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border. Because these areas lack significant population, widespread higher education, or any notable Russian populations, it appears that "the established explanatory model fails to fully account for what happened in these two areas. Instead of demographic characteristics, we must instead take into account the recent political history in order to understand why the people in Kara-Suu and Suzak might have voted in such high numbers 'against all.'".
References
Populated places in Jalal-Abad Region
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