Central Asia, Bradley Mayhew, Greg Bloom, Paul Clammer, pp. 254, Lonely Planet, 2010, ISBN 978-1-74179-148-8, ... Today, sparsely populated Surkhandarya feels a world apart from the rest of Uzbekistan ... A popular tourist destination for outdoorsy types in Soviet times, Surkhandarya looks set for a revival ...
Tajikistan in the New Central Asia: Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry and Radical Islam, Lena Jonson, pp. 25, I.B.Tauris, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84511-293-6, ... The Kushan Empire (from the 1st to the early 4th centuries AD) came to include not only northern India but also almost all of present-day Afghanistan, large parts of Central Asia and East Turkistan ... Khalchayan in present-day Uzbekistan (close to Denau in what is now the Surkhandarya region) ...
