Boysun

Boysun is a city in the Surxondaryo Region of Uzbekistan and the capital of Boysun District, with 27,600 people in 2016. It lies in a valley within a hilly region, overlooked by the Boysuntoq Ridge of the Gissar Range, which rises to 3,100 metres here, and its landscape is dramatic but arid. People are known to have lived in Boysun for about 5,000 years. A fortified city called Poikalon stood here from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD, and from the 6th to the 13th centuries the city of Bosand, on the trade route between Chaghaniyan and Samarkand, stood in the area. In the 19th century Boysun was the centre of one of three bekliks of the Bukhara Emirate in the Surxondaryo region. The nearby Teshik-Tash cave, where Neanderthal remains were found, is world famous.