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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Horning, Nicole, author. | Knowlton, MaryLee, 1946- author.

Title: Uzbekistan / Nicole Horning and MaryLee Knowlton.

Description: Third edition. | New York: Cavendish Square Publishing, 2021.

| Series: Cultures of the world | Includes bibliographical references

and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020038708 | ISBN 9781502658784 (library binding) | ISBN

9781502658791 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Uzbekistan--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC DK948.66 .K59 2021 | DDC 958.7--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038708

Writers, third edition: Nicole Horning and MaryLee Knowlton

Editor, third edition: Nicole Horning

Designer, third edition: Jessica Nevins

Picture Researcher, third edition: Jessica Nevins

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