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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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Most of Tajikistan's population belongs to the Tajik ethnic group, who share culture and history with the Persian peoples and speak the Tajik language, a modern variety of Persian. Once part of the Samanid Empire, Tajikistan became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in the 20th century, known as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic .
(from History of Tajikistan) Image 7 Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War , 1992 (from History of Tajikistan ) Image 8 A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan.
Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک، تاجک, romanized: Tājīk, Tājek; Tajik: Тоҷик, romanized: Tojik) is the name of various Persian-speaking [16] Eastern Iranian groups of people native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
The people of present-day Tajikistan had no concept of national identity prior to the Soviet Union. When they were asked to declare their nationality when the Soviet Union was defining its borders, there was a lot of uncertainty, such as in Khujand, where its people did not know if they were Tajiks or Uzbeks.