The special "ishkor" blue glaze is manufactured by natural mineral pigments and mountain ash plants.

[4][5] Recent studies of scientists have established that the anthropological type of Uzbeks and Tajiks was formed at the end of the I millennium BC in the valleys of the middle and lower reaches of the Sayxun and spread to the valleys of Fergana, Khwarazm and Zarafshon in the II-III centuries AD.

Khoja Ilgor Mosque is an architectural monument located in Rishtan (Fergana Region, Uzbekistan).

The Hodja Ilgor Mosque is a typical example of the Fergana multi-column, frontally opened cultic building.

[19] Hanafi scholar Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, the author of the book al-Hidayah, was born in this small town and grew up in neighbouring Margilan.