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This article documents the early history of Tajikistan.. Before the Soviet era, which began in Central Asia in the early 1920s, the area designated today as the Republic of Tajikistan underwent a series of population changes that brought with them political and cultural influences from the Turkic and Mongol peoples of the Eurasian steppe, China, Iran, Russia, and other contiguous regions.
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Shirinsho Shotemur (also spelt Shirinshah Shahtimur, [1] Shirinsho Shotemor, et al.; Tajik: Шириншоҳ Шоҳтемур [2] Shirinshoh Shohtemur; Russian: Шириншо Шотемор [3] Širinšo Šotemor; 1 December 1899 – 27 October 1937 [3]) [4] was a prominent Pamiri politician who made a major contributions to the early history of Soviet Tajikistan and was instrumental in the ...
The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, [a] also commonly known as Soviet Tajikistan, the Tajik SSR, TaSSR, or simply Tajikistan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1929 to 1991 in Central Asia. The Tajik Republic was created on 5 December 1929 as a national entity for the Tajik people within the Soviet Union.
The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [c] (Tajik ASSR) was an autonomous republic within the Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union.It was created on 14 October 1924 by a series of legal acts that partitioned the three existing regional entities in Central Asia – Turkestan ASSR, Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, and Khorezm People's Soviet Republic – into five new entities based on ethnic ...
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed to Republic of Tajikistan. September 9: During the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan left. [6] 1992: May 5: Tajikistani Civil War: A civil war began. 1993: February 23: Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan was founded. 1994: November 16: Emomali Rahmon became the 3rd president of ...
The ruins demonstrate the early development of proto-urbanization in this region. This centre of settlement, one of the oldest in Central Asia, is situated between a mountainous region suitable for cattle rearing by nomadic pastoralists, and a large valley conducive to the development of agriculture and irrigation by the first settled ...
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 ...