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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. It has a population of approximately 10.6 million people.

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, before becoming part of 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 constituent republic of the Soviet Union on 5 December 1929. (Full article...)

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Tajikistan sent a delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 12–28 February 2010. The nation was participating in its third Winter Olympic Games. The Tajikistani delegation consisted of a single athlete: alpine skier Andrei Drygin. Drygin's best finish in any of his events was 44th in the super-G. (Full article...)

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Image 1A 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 2A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 3A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 4A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 5Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 6Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 7A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 8Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 9Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915
Image 10A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 11Painted 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 12Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 13Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 152001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 16Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 17Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 18Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 19A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 20CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 22Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 23Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 24Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)

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• Ali Shervoni (1928-1929); Acting secretary
• Clothing, Traditional - Tajikistan
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• 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
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