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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, 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.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the city of Sarazm, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam. The area has been ruled by empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, and Mongol Empire. After being ruled by the Timurid Empire and Khanate of Bukhara, the Timurid Renaissance flourished. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by 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 full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929. (Full article...)

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The 2014 SCO summit was the 13th annual summit of heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held between 11 and 12 September in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Security was among the top issues for 13th annual summit and all members during the last meeting reached a consensus on fighting against separatism, extremism and terrorism, as well as on safeguarding regional peace and security therefore Afghanistan will be focal point during talks in Dushanbe, claim some diplomats of member countries. (Full article...)

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... the Pamiri people of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in the southeast, bordering Afghanistan and China, though considered part of the Tajik ethnicity, nevertheless are distinct linguistically and culturally from most Tajiks?
In contrast to the mostly Sunni Muslim residents of the rest of Tajikistan, the Pamiris overwhelmingly follow the Ismaili sect of Islam, and speak a number of Eastern Iranian languages, including Shughni, Rushani, Khufi and Wakhi.

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Image 12001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 2Painted 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 3A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 4Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 5A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 6Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 7Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 8A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 9Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 10Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 11A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 12Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 13Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 15Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 16Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 17CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 18A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 19A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 20Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 21Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 22Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 23Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 24A Sogdian wall mural from the ruins of an aristocratic home in the archaeological site of Panjakent, showing Sogdian men playing a board game, 8th century (from History of Tajikistan)

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Article requests : • Acting Secretaries and First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Tajikistan
• Chinor Emomov (1924-1927); Acting secretary
• Mumin Khojaev (1927-1928); Acting secretary
• Ali Shervoni (1928-1929); Acting secretary
• Clothing, Traditional - Tajikistan
• Kayrakkum
• Fuzail Maksum - Bashmachi leader who fought against Bolsheviks in the 1920s-30s
• 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
• Jaman Pass, a pass on the Tajik/Afghan border
• Cimtarga
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