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Bishkek （Kyrgyz: Бишкек, romanized: Bishkek, IPA: [biʃˈkek]）, formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan.
Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chuy Region.
The province surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.
It is also near the Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border.
In 1825, the Khanate of Kokand established the fortress of "Pishpek" to control local caravan routes and to collect tribute from Kyrgyz tribes.
On 4 September 1860, with the approval of the Kyrgyz, Russian forces led by Colonel Apollon Zimmermann destroyed the fortress.
In 1868, a Russian settlement was established on the site of the fortress under its original name, "Pishpek." It lay within the General Governorship of Russian Turkestan and its Semirechye Oblast.
In 1925, the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast was established in Russian Turkestan, promoting Pishpek to its capital.
In 1926, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union renamed the city "Frunze," after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze （1885–1925）, who was born there.
In 1936, the city of Frunze became the capital of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, during the final stages of national delimitation in the Soviet Union.
In 1991, the Kyrgyz parliament changed the capital's name to "Bishkek." Bishkek is situated at an altitude of about 800 metres （2,600 ft）, just off the northern fringe of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range, an extension of the Tian Shan mountain range.
These mountains rise to a height of 4,895 metres （16,060 ft）.
North of the city, a fertile and gently undulating steppe extends far north into neighbouring Kazak...