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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. It has a population of approximately ten million.

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 various 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, before becoming part of 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 constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1929. (Full article...)

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Bactria (/ˈbæktriə/; Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north of modern Afghanistan. Bactria was strategically located south of Sogdia and the western part of the Pamir Mountains. The extensive mountain ranges acted as protective "walls" on three sides, with the Pamir on the north and the Hindu Kush on south forming a junction with the Karakoram range towards the east.

Called "beautiful Bactria, crowned with flags" by the Avesta, the region is considered, in the Zoroastrian faith, to be one of the "sixteen perfect Iranian lands" that the supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, had created. It was once a small and independent kingdom struggling to exist against nomadic Turanians. One of the early centres of Zoroastrianism, and capital of the legendary Kayanian dynasty, Bactria is mentioned in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great as one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire; it was a special satrapy, ruled by a crown prince or an intended heir. Bactria was the centre of Iranian resistance against the Macedonian invaders after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in the 4th century BC, but eventually fell to Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander, Bactria was annexed by his general, Seleucus I. (Full article...)

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Image 1Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 2A 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 3Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 4A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 5Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 62001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 7A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 8Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 9CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 10Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 11Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 12Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 13A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 14Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 15A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 16Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 17A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 18Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 19Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 20Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 22Painted 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 23Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 24A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)

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