Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Tajiks of Uzbekistan are ethnic Tajiks residing in the Republic of Uzbekistan. They constitute about 5% of the total population, [1] though some estimates suggest the actual number is significantly higher. [2] Samarkand, the third-largest city in Uzbekistan, [3] and the ancient city of Bukhara both have Tajik majority populations. [4]
The Chagatai Tajiks started being referred to as Uzbeks from the 1926 Soviet Census.Soviet historian Mikhail Khudyakov suggested that the Chagatai may have been neither fully Uzbek nor fully Tajik but rather Tajiks at some stage of Turkicisation or Uzbeks who had adopted the Tajik language.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
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.
In 1924, Tajikistan became an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the Tajik ASSR, within Uzbekistan. In 1929, Tajikistan was made one of the component republics of the Soviet Union – Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR) – and it kept that status until gaining independence 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet ...
Kushan Prince, Dalverzin-Tepe, 1st century AD, Uzbekistan, Museum of the History of the Peoples of Uzbekistan. Alexander the Great conquered the region in 328 BC, bringing it briefly under the control of his Macedonian Empire. [7] The wealth of Transoxiana was a constant magnet for invasions from the northern steppes and from China.
During this war, Uzbek troops entered into Tajikistan to prevent war, but their efforts were futile due to personal disagreements between leaders of both countries. Nevertheless, Uzbekistan received a flood of Uzbek and Tajik refugees from Tajikistan due to the ongoing war, most of whom remained in Uzbekistan after the war. [6]
Ethnic Tajik minorities exist in many countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. Samarkand and Bukhara are two cities in Uzbekistan which are particularly densely populated by Tajik speakers, [8] among whom were tens of thousands of Bukharan Jews in the 19th to 20th centuries. [9] (In modern times, the dialects spoken by the few ...