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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 .
Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan.As of March 2024, Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajik.Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin.
From the 1920s to 1955 there was a Gharm Oblast in Tajikistan, and henceforth people from central Tajikistan were known as Gharmi Tajiks. During the 1950s many Gharmi Tajiks were forced to migrate from central Tajikistan to the Vakhsh River Valley in western Tajikistan.