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Tajikistan, [a] officially the Republic of Tajikistan, [b] 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 ...
The following is the list of cities in Tajikistan that underwent a name change in the past. Dushanbe → Stalinabad (1929) → Dushanbe (1961) Khodjend → Leninabad (1939) → Khujand (1991) Kurgan-Tyube → Qurghonteppa (1993) → Bokhtar (2018) Sovietabad → Ghafurov (1978) Ura-Tyube → Istaravshan (2001)
Iran: During the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, several Iranian groups advocated changing the name of the Danish pastry to "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Philippines : On September 12, 2012, the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order No. 29 renaming parts of the South China Sea ...
A national without household registration may apply for name change outside Taiwan at a Taiwanese diplomatic mission, but having had household registration in Taiwan may apply there only to forward a name change application to the Household Registration Office covering the last Taiwanese address of residency, [89] which is a better method only ...
The origin of the name Tajik has been embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia. The explanation most favored by scholars is that the word evolved from the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) Arab tribe. [1]
Tajikistan was part of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex in the Bronze Age, candidate for Proto-Indo-Iranian or Proto-Iranian culture. Bactria was located in northern Afghanistan (present-day Afghan Turkestan ) between the mountain range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya ( Oxus ) River and some areas of current south Tajikistan.
Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or the letter ß in family names are recognized as an important reason for a name change. (Even just the change of the spelling, e.g. from Müller to Mueller or from Weiß to Weiss, is regarded as name change. In German ID cards and passports, however, such names are spelled in two different ways: the correct way in the ...
It started out as a name given by outsiders . The Middle Persian (or Sogdian or Parthian) word tāzīk ("Arab") is the commonly accepted origin in scholarship. It is derived from the name of the Tayy, an Arab bedouin tribe in Najd, who had been in contact with the Iranian Parthian (247 BC–224 AD) and Sasanian (224–651) empires. [1]