Xo‘jayli

Xo‘jayli

Xojeli, also Khodzheyli (Karakalpak: Xojeli/Хожели,[xoˈʒeli]; Russian: Ходжейли, romanized: Khodzheyli), is a city and seat of Xojeli District in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan.[1] It lies 15 km southwest of Nukus, and 25 km northeast of Konye-Urgench (Turkmenistan). Its population is 67,800 (2016).[2] Xojeli has a railway station on the line from Atyrau (western Kazakhstan) to Tashkent.[3] There is an ancient city and archaelogical complex called Mizdarkhan, located northeast of Xojeli, which consists of several medieval and ancient archaeological sites as: underground Mausoleum of Nazlymhan Sulu, Mausoleum of Shamun Naby (a Sufi scholar), Medrese of Erezhep Halifa and Hill of Zhomart Kassap (ancient Zoroastrian dakhma).[citation needed] Nowadays, Mizdarkhan functions also as a graveyard and people in Karakalpakstan visit on pilgrimage.[citation needed] This Uzbekistan location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.