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The name "Tajik" (Persian: تاجیک, romanized: tājīk, Tajik: тоҷик, romanized: tojik) did not always have the same meaning and did always serve as the self-designation of the present-day Tajik people. It started out as a name given by outsiders . The Middle Persian (or Sogdian or Parthian) word tāzīk ("Arab") is the commonly ...
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 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]
The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860s. The Basmachi revolt broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was quelled in the early 1920s during the Russian Civil War. In 1924, Tajikistan became an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the Tajik ASSR, within Uzbekistan.
The state (national) language (Tajik: забони давлатӣ, romanized: zaboni davlatí, Russian: государственный язык, romanized: gosudarstvennyy yazyk) of the Republic of Tajikistan is Tajik, which is written in the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. Millions of native Tajik speakers live in neighboring Uzbekistan and in Russia.
The crown represents the Samanid dynasty and Tajik people, as the name Tajik is connected with Persian tâj "crown" in popular etymology. [11] The flag of Tajikistan features seven stars due to the significance of the number seven in Persian mythology, representing perfection and happiness. According to traditional belief, the heavens feature ...
Two direct-to-video films were produced in Tajikistan in 2004 and 2005, Statue of Love (2004) by Umedsho Mirzoshirinov and Wanderer (2005) by Gulandom Muhabbatova and Daler Rahmatov. [5] In 2009, True Noon by Nosir Saidov became the first Tajik film to be distributed in Tajikistan in 18 years, i.e. since independence. [ 6 ]
Bobojon Ghafurov on a Tajik banknote issued in honor of the 90th anniversary of his birth. Bobojon Gafurovich Ghafurov (Tajik: Бобоҷон Ғафурович Ғафуров; 18 December 1908 – 12 July 1977) or Babadzan Gafurovich Gafurov (Russian: Бободжа́н Гафу́рович Гафу́ров) was a Tajik historian, academician, and the author of several books published in ...