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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country located in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of the country, with a population of over 1.2 million. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east; it is narrowly separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. Its total population exceeds 11 million.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the Oxus civilisation in the west. Parts of the country were part of the Sogdian and Bactrian civilisations, and were ruled by the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, the Greco‑Bactrians, the Kushans, the Kidarites, the Hephthalites, the First Turkic Khaganate, the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, the Samanid Empire, the Kara‑Khanids, the Seljuks, the Khwarazmians, the Mongols, the Timurids, and the Khanate of Bukhara. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire, before becoming part of the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic, before becoming a constituent republic of the Soviet Union on 5 December 1929. (Full article...)

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The Vakhsh (/ˈvækʃ/ VAKSH; Tajik and Russian: Вахш), also known as the Surkhob (Tajik: Сурхоб) in north-central Tajikistan and as the Kyzyl-Suu (Kyrgyz: Кызыл-Суу) in Kyrgyzstan, is a Central Asian river and one of the main rivers of Tajikistan. It is a tributary of the Amu Darya river. (Full article...)

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Image 1Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 2Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 3A Sogdian wall mural from the ruins of an aristocratic home at the archaeological site of Panjakent, showing Sogdian men playing a board game, 8th century (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 4A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 5Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 6Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 7A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 8A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 9Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 10CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 11Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 12A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 132001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 14Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 15Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 16Painted clay and alabaster head of a Zoroastrian priest wearing a distinctive Bactrian-style headdress, Takhti-Sangin, Tajikistan, Greco-Bactrian kingdom, 3rd–2nd century BC. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 17Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 18A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 19A native Tajik family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 20Asia in 500, showing the Hephthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21The statue of Ismail Samani, a symbol of the history and culture of the Tajik people, in the city of Dushanbe. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 22Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 23Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 24Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd–2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)

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• Muhammad Sharif Himmatzoda - opposition leader during civil war in Tajikistan
• Haji Akbar Turajanzade - Tajik political leader, 2nd in command in the Islamic Rennaisance Party.
• Kamoludin Abdullaev - historian
• Rahim Masov - historian
• Muhammad Osimi - also spelt Asimov - Historian, writer, philosopher
• King Somoni Inheritance nationalist youth movement
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