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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 English name is a reference to the plant of the same name. [2] However, in terms of etymology, the word jasmine is of Persian origin (in Persian: Yasmin). [1] It entered the English language through Old French. [1] Today, Jasmine is one of the most popular names in the Western world and has numerous spellings. In the United States, it ...
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.
The show was retitled The David Susskind Show for its telecast on Sunday night, October 2, 1966. [5] In the 1960s it was the first nationally broadcast television talk show to feature people speaking out against American involvement in the Vietnam War. The show continued until its New York outlet cancelled it in 1986, approximately six months ...
Jasmina (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасмина), sometimes Jasminka, [2] as a feminine variant, and Jasmin (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасмин), sometimes Jasminko, as a masculine variant, are given names used in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Slovenia, and same as a given name Jasmine, which is the common form in German, Romance and English-speaking ...
The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic and Commercial History, 1550-1702 (London: Curzon Press) 1997. Carrère D’Encausse, Hélène. Islam and the Russian Empire: Reform and Revolution in Central Asia (London: I.B. Tauris) 1988. Christian, David. A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (Oxford: Blackwell) 1998. Hiro, Dilip.
[1] [2] He is based on the thief of the same name from The Thief of Bagdad. [3] [4] In other media, Abu appears in the Kingdom Hearts video game franchise, the animated television series House of Mouse, and the mobile game Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. [5] In the 2019 film, Abu is depicted as a tufted capuchin. [6]
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.