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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 is a highly agrarian country, with its rural population at more than 70% and agriculture accounting for 60% of employment and around 20% of GDP in 2020. As is typical of economies dependent on agriculture, Tajikistan has a low income per capita: Soviet Tajikistan was the poorest republic with a staggering 45% of its population in the lowest income “septile” (Uzbekistan, the next poorest in the Soviet ranking, had 34% of the population in the lowest income group). In 2006 Tajikistan still had the lowest income per capita among the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries: $1,410 (purchasing power parity (PPP) equivalents) compared with nearly $12,000 for Russia. The low income and the high agrarian profile justify and drive the efforts for agricultural reform since 1991 in the hope of improving the population's well-being.

Tajikistan's agriculture is characterized by two farming systems determined by its geography, where potato and wheat farming, along with horticulture is taking place in the country's uplands, while irrigated cotton dominates in lowlands. (Full article...)

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... Tajikistan is one of the main homes of Marco Polo sheep which have been known to grow horns over six feet long and weighing up to 60 lb (27 kg).

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Image 1Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 2Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 3A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 4Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 5CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 6Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in 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 9A 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 10Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 11Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 12A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 13Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 15A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 162001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 17Painted 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 18Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 19Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 20Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 22A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 23A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 24Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)

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Article requests : • Acting Secretaries and First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Tajikistan
• Chinor Emomov (1924-1927); Acting secretary
• Mumin Khojaev (1927-1928); Acting secretary
• Ali Shervoni (1928-1929); Acting secretary
• Clothing, Traditional - Tajikistan
• Kayrakkum
• 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
• Cimtarga
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