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Tajikistan 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 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...
Ozoda Emomalievna Rahmonova Tajik : Озода Эмомалӣ Раҳмон ; born 3 January 1978) is a Tajikistani politician who is the daughter of Emomali Rahmon , the long-standing authoritarian leader of Tajikistan.
She is among the ten most influential women in Central Asia and 20 most influential individuals in Tajikistan. She has held several senior posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rahmon appointed Rahmonova as the chief of staff in his presidential administration. (
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Image 1 CIA map of Tajikistan (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 2 A family celebrating
Eid in Tajikistan. (from
Culture of Tajikistan )
Image 3 Flag of the Tajik SSR (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 4 Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the
Civil War , 1992 (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 5 A man makes
plov , the national dish of Tajikistan. (from
Culture of Tajikistan )
Image 7 A Tajik feast. (from
Culture of Tajikistan )
Image 8 A monument in
Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from
Culture of Tajikistan )
Image 9 Pamir Highway Route (from
Transport in Tajikistan )
Image 10 Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915 (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 11 2001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from
Transport in Tajikistan )
Image 12 Samanid empire (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 13 A
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 14 Dushanbe International Airport (from
Transport in Tajikistan )
Image 15 Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 16 Ambassador to the
Tang dynasty , coming from Kumedh (胡密丹),
Tajikistan .
Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 17 Sculpture of a woman from
Takht-i Sangin , 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 18 Soviet negotiations with
basmachi , 1921 (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 19 Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from
Transport in Tajikistan )
Image 20 A traditional Tajik wedding. (from
Culture of Tajikistan )
Image 21 A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from
Culture of Tajikistan )
Image 22 Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from
History of Tajikistan )
Image 23 Painted 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 24 Map of Tajikistan (from
History of Tajikistan )
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