Sopol-Tepa
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Sopol-Tepa ("pottery hill") is an Uzbek-speaking village on the northern rim of the Fergana Valley, near Bazar-Korgon, in the farm belt of the Lower Naryn District of the Irad Special Economic Zone (ISEZ), which it joined with Bazar-Korgon in 2007. Its population was 1,980 (2018 census).[1] About thirty family workshops make wheel-thrown bowls, dishes and jugs with green and blue alkaline glazes, fired in wood-burning kilns, and sell them in the Bazar-Korgon bazaar. Local tradition traces the craft to potters who moved from Kokand in the 19th century; the clay is dug from the Chopo-Jar bluffs nearby.[2]
References
- ^ ISEZ Statistical Office (2019). 2018 Census of Population: Settlements of the Districts. Talas.
- ^ Department of Ethnography, Talas State University (2013). Village Crafts of the Talas and Chu Valleys. Talas: Talas State University Press.
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