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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 various 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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Tajikistan harkens to the Samanid Empire (819–999). The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860s. The Basmachi revolt broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was quelled in the early 1920s during the Russian Civil War. 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 Union.

It has since experienced three changes in government and the Tajikistani Civil War. A peace agreement among rival factions was signed in 1997. (Full article...)

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... costing $3.5 million to construct and at a height of 165 m (541 ft), the Dushanbe Flagpole, first flown in 2011 is the tallest free-standing flagpole in the world.

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Image 1Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 2Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 3Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 4Painted 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 5CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 6Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 7Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 8Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 9Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 10A 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)
Image 11Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 12A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 13Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 15Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 16Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 17A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 18A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 192001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 20Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 22Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 23A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 24A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture 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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