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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]
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)
The name change was due to the unflattering meaning of the original toponym (something like "Little dirty one"). Astana, Kazakhstan – renamed Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Kazakhstan's legislature passed a law on 20 March 2019 to rename the Central Asian nation's capital city from Astana to Nur-Sultan.
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, [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 ...
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.
The pop star filed her name change request less than one week before her one-year wedding anniversary with Bernard. The two were first spotted spending time together in late 2021, according to The ...
Converts to Islam may change their name for religious reasons; however, changing Islamic names is prohibited. [31] A person can request that the component Abd (meaning 'servant') be removed from their name. Additional names may also be omitted on official documents. [32] [33] [34] [31]