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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and most populous city. Tajikistan is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. It is separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the city of Sarazm, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam. The area has been ruled by empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, and Mongol Empire. After being ruled by the Timurid Empire and Khanate of Bukhara, the Timurid Renaissance flourished. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929. (Full article...)

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Tajiks

Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک، تاجک, romanized: Tājīk, Tājek; Tajik: Тоҷик, romanized: Tojik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan, and the second-largest in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. They speak varieties of Persian, a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups, the Tajiks of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. In Afghanistan, the Pamiris are counted as a separate ethnic group.

As a self-designation, the literary New Persian term Tajik, which originally had some previous pejorative usage as a label for eastern Persians or Iranians, has become acceptable during the last several decades, particularly as a result of Soviet administration in Central Asia. Alternative names for the Tajiks are Fārsīwān (Persian-speaker), and Dīhgān (cf. Tajik: Деҳқон) which translates to "farmer or settled villager", in a wider sense "settled" in contrast to "nomadic" and was later used to describe a class of land-owning magnates as "Persian of noble blood" in contrast to Arabs, Turks and Romans during the Sassanid and early Islamic period. (Full article...)

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Image 1Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 2Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 3Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 4Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 5Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 6Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 7CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 8Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 9Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 10Painted clay and alabaster head of a Zoroastrian priest wearing a distinctive Bactrian-style headdress, Takhti-Sangin, Tajikistan, Greco-Bactrian kingdom, 3rd-2nd century BC. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 11Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 122001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 13A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 14Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 15A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 16Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 17A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 18Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 19Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 20A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 21Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 22A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 23A Sogdian wall mural from the ruins of an aristocratic home in the archaeological site of Panjakent, showing Sogdian men playing a board game, 8th century (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 24A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)

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• Fuzail Maksum - Bashmachi leader who fought against Bolsheviks in the 1920s-30s
• Muhammad Sharif Himmatzoda - opposition leader during civil war in Tajikistan
• Haji Akbar Turajanzade - Tajik political leader, 2nd in command in the Islamic Rennaisance Party.
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• Rahim Masov - historian
• Muhammad Osimi - also spelt Asimov - Historian, writer, philosopher
• King Somoni Inheritance nationalist youth movement
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