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Traditional centers of Tajik literature were Samarkand and Bukhara, however these cities are now in Uzbekistan. In recent history, Tajik literature has been predominantly social realist. Though Tajiks do not draw a line, between their own literature and general Persian literature, there have been a few notable Tajik writers and poets. The ...
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.
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 ...
For topics related to the culture of the ethnic Tajik people, see Category:Ethnic Tajik culture. Subcategories This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
One is the American-Tajik Association, established in Brooklyn, [3] whose goal is to unite the Tajik diaspora, giving them a forum to gather and celebrate their culture. [4] In May 2012, the Tajik American Cultural Association (TACA) was founded by Tajik local volunteers Vladimir Fedorenko, Anvar Samadzoda, Akobir Akhmedov and Faridun Nazarov ...
Tajik cuisine is a traditional cuisine of Tajikistan, and has much in common with Iranian, Afghan, Russian, Chinese, and Uzbek cuisines. Palov or palav (Tajik: палав), also called osh (Tajik: ош), is the national dish in Tajikistan, as in other countries in the region. Green tea (Tajik: чойи кабуд) is the national drink.
Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan; Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan; Tajik alphabet, Alphabet used to write the Tajik language; Tajik Air, Airline in Tajikistan; Tajik Internal Troops, are the internal security force of Tajikistan; Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, 1929–1991 republic of the ...
Tajik" was frequently employed by the Turkic or Turco-Mongol governing elite in Ilkhanid, Timurid, and Safavid literature to differentiate Persians from Turks and Mongols. Examples include bitikchiān-e tāzik ("Persian secretaries") by Rashid al-Din Hamadani in his Tarikh-e ghazani (1310); ra'iyat-e tāzik ("the Persian peasantry") by Sayf ...