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Extractions: World Countries Infoplease Atlas: Tajikistan Republic of Tajikistan President: Imomali Rakhmonov (1992) Prime Minister: Akil Akilov (1999) Area: 55,251 sq mi (143,100 sq km) Population (2004 est.): 7,011,556 (growth rate: 2.1%); birth rate: 32.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 112.1/1000; life expectancy: 64.5; density per sq mi: 127 Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Dushanbe, 817,100 (metro. area), 590,300 (city proper) Other large city: Khodzhent (Leninabad), 156,500 Monetary unit: Tajik ruble Language: Tajik Ethnicity/race: Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6% Religion: Sunni Muslim 85% Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.)
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Extractions: Book Review The Politics of History in Tajikistan: Reinventing the Samanids By Kirill Nourzhanov Kirill Nourzhanov received his PhD from the Australian National University in 1998 and is currently a Lecturer in the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at ANU. He has published widely on Central Asian history and politics. During 2000-2001, he acted as an adviser to the Government of Tajikistan on parliamentary reform. His book Tajikistan: The History of An Ethnic State will be published by Hurst in 2001. Caption: Producing a nationalist version of history has acquired special importance for the leaders of independent Tajikistan as a means of reinforcing common Tajik identity, particularly in the aftermath of the civil war. The most recent campaign of this kind is the drive to reinvent and glorify the Samanids-a Muslim dynasty which ruled Mawarannahr and Khorasan during the 9th and 10th centuries A.D. The article will discuss the particulars of this campaign launched by President Rahmonov in March 1997 and the ways in which it contributes to the general political discourse in Tajikistan. Introduction On 9 September 1999-the 8 th anniversary of Tajikistan's independence-President Rahmonov opened an imposing memorial complex in the center of Dushanbe to commemorate the 1,100
Extractions: Source: The Library of Congress Country Studies The total area of the five republics is approximately 3.9 million square kilometers, slightly more than 40 percent of the area of the United States and less than one-quarter of the area of Russia (see fig. 1). The region stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east, and from central Siberia in the north to Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan in the south. The area of the republics varies greatly: Kazakstan, by far the largest, occupies about 2.7 million square kilometers, more than two-thirds of the region. The smallest republic, Kyrgyzstan, occupies only 198,500 square kilometers. The Central Asian republics also feature quite different topographies, varying from the wide expanses of desert in primarily flat Kazakstan and Turkmenistan to the steep slopes and river valleys of mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (see fig. 2). The region contains enormous natural and agricultural resources. All five republics have favorable agricultural regions and some combination of attractive minerals and fuels. Their industrial bases include trained workers, and their populations have relatively high educational levels and literacy rates. Unfortunately, the moribund, highly inefficient system through which the Soviet Union exploited those resources has proved very difficult to disassemble. The Central Asians have suffered all the typical transitional ills of former communist states moving toward a market economy: erratic supply of critical industrial inputs, increased unemployment, sharply increased inflation, declining capacity utilization and output by industry, and acute shortages of goods. In response, all five governments have pledged meaningful reform, but obstacles such as unworkable government structure, ethnic rivalries, and a variety of social tensions have made all five move cautiously.
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Extractions: Culture and the Arts Tajikistan Table of Contents As they did during the Soviet era, educated Tajiks define their cultural heritage broadly, laying claim to the rich legacy of the supraethnic culture of Central Asia and other parts of the Islamic world from the eastern Mediterranean to India. Soviet rule institutionalized Western art forms, publishing, and mass media, some elements of which subsequently attracted spontaneous support in the republic. However, since the beginning of Soviet rule in the 1920s, the media and the arts always have been subject to political constraints. Despite long-standing Soviet efforts to differentiate between the Persian speakers of Central Asia and those elsewhere, Tajiks in Tajikistan describe all of the major literary works written in Persian until the twentieth century as Tajik, regardless of the ethnicity and native region of the author. In Soviet times, such claims were not merely a matter of chauvinism but a strategy to permit Tajiks some contact with a culture that was artificially divided by state borders. Nevertheless, very little Persian literature was published in Cyrillic transcription in the Soviet era. Three writers dominated the first generation of Soviet Tajik literature. Sadriddin Aini (1878-1954), a Jadidist writer and educator who turned communist, began as a poet but wrote primarily prose in the Soviet era. His works include three major novels dealing with social issues in the region and memoirs that depict life in the Bukhoro Khanate. Aini became the first president of Tajikistan's Academy of Sciences.
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Extractions: Bibliography Tajikistan Table of Contents Akademiya nauk SSSR. Institut etnografii. Sotsial'no-kul'turnyy oblik sovetskikh natsiy (The Social-Cultural Aspect of the Soviet Nations). Moscow: Nauka, 1986. Akademiya nauk Tadzhikskoy SSR. Istoriya tadzhikskogo naroda (A History of the Tajik People), 3. Moscow: Nauka, 1965. Akademiya nauk Tadzhikskoy SSR. Tadzhikistan: priroda i resursy ( Tajikistan: Nature and Resources). Dushanbe: Donish, 1982. Akademiya nauk Tadzhikskoy SSR. Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika (The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic). Ed., M.S. Asimov. Dushanbe: 1974. Allworth, Edward, ed. Central Asia: A Century of Russian Rule . New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. Allworth, Edward, ed. The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia . New York: Praeger, 1973. Amnesty International. Tadzhikistan . London: 1993. Andreyev, M.S. "Po etnografii tadzhikov: Nekotoryye svedeniya" (On the Ethnography of the Tajiks: Some Information). Pages 151-77 in Tadzhikistan . Tashkent: Obshchestvo dlya izucheniya Tadzhikistana i iranskikh narodnostey za yego predelami, 1925.
Extractions: History: The Tajiks come from an ancient stock the inhabitants of the Pamir Mountains claim to be the only pure descendants of the Aryan tribes who invaded India over 4000 years ago, and that the Saxon tribes of Western Europe also originated there. Tajikistans inaccessibility has protected it from most invaders, although Alexander the Great founded a city on the site of modern-day Khojand, calling it Alexandria Eskate (Alexandria the Furthest). However, the mountains effectively spared it from the Mongols, although it was under their aegis. After the dissolution of the Mongol Empire, Tajikistan was successively ruled by the emirs of Samarkand, Bukhara, and finally, Kokhand. It was eventually ceded to the Russian sphere of influence in the dying days of the Great Game of political intrigue between the Russian Empire and the British in India at the end of the 19th century. The Bolsheviks were not made welcome and the Basmachi movement continued to resist them until the early-1930s. Enver Pasha (d. 1924) and Ibraghim Beg (d. 1931) both came to their end in Tajikistan. During the fighting, some 200,000 Tajiks fled to Afghanistan. Tajikistans distance and remoteness again saved it during the Soviet era, when it escaped more lightly than other republics did.
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Extractions: A B C D ... Tajikistan Tajikistan Introduction Tajikistan Background: Tajikistan has experienced three changes in government and a five-year civil war since it gained independence in 1991 from the USSR. A peace agreement among rival factions was signed in 1997, and implemented in 2000. The central government's less than total control over some areas of the country has forced it to compromise and forge alliances among factions. Attention by the international community in the wake of the war in Afghanistan has brought increased economic development assistance, which could create jobs and increase stability in the long term. Tajikistan is in the early stages of seeking World Trade Organization membership and has joined NATO's Partnership for Peace. Geography Tajikistan Location: Central Asia, west of China Geographic coordinates: 39 00 N, 71 00 E
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Extractions: Dushanbe - History Lenin's Statue Dusanbe (in Persian Dosanba which means Monday; in Russian known as Dyushambe until 1929, Stalinabad from 1929 to 1961, and Dushanbe after 1961) is capital and most populous city of Tajikistan. It is located in the Hisor valley, at an average altitude of approximately 823 m, on the Dushanbe river, the lower course of the Varzob at the confluence with the Luchob. According to tradition, the name reflects an earlier practice of holding a market in the area on Mondays. There is archeological evidence of human habitation in the Dushanbe region since the late Neolithic era. Speculation that there may have been a large ancient settlement on the site remains controversial. The earliest historical references to a village named Dushanbe are from the 17th and 18th centuries; by the early 18th century a small fort was associated with it. Dushanbe and its environs were long subject to the beg of Hisor. In the 19th century the village of Dushanbe was a center for regional trade and artisanal production, including weaving, tanning, and ironworking. After a prolonged, though intermittent, struggle for control of the Hisor area among various local and regional rulers, the tsarist government allocated it to the amir of Bukhara in 1868, as compensation for the loss of other parts of his realm to the Russian governorship-general of Turkestan. In 1929 Tajikistan became a Soviet Socialist Republic separate from Uzbekistan, with Dushanbe remaining its capital. Since the 1930s the city has acquired an increasing number of larger public and official buildings (including a sports stadium, a theater for opera and ballet, government headquarters, and a post office) in architectural styles typical of the Soviet Union at the time, though many have decorative details drawn from local traditions. In the 1950s the city government began to construct increasingly tall residential housing, at first four-story apartment buildings, and, since the 1970s, an ever-increasing number of medium- and high-rise apartment buildings, although some neighborhoods of small mud-brick houses remain.
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Extractions: Source: Khurasaan.com The Collapse of the Soviet Union When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Central Asian states had independence thrust upon them. They did not actively seek it. Furthermore, there no were strong nationalist movements in Central Asia seeking independence. None of the Central Asian states had a history of national existence prior to either the Soviet Union or that of the Tsarist Empire. Hence, the primary source of loyalty of Central Asian peoples under the Soviet Union was not the Communist State. Rather, a multiplicitys of loyalties existed and continue to do so. These loyalties range from the clan, tribe, family, republic and to Islam, with Islam having a powerful influence on social mores and identity. Upon independence, Islam competed with peoples loyalties to the new states. Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) The IRP began as an educational group, not a political party, hence it had limited aims and objectives. The IRP leader in Tajikistan, Akbar Turajanzode, frequently stated that the IRP was not seeking the establishment of an Islamic polity, but a secular democracy. Thus the IRP has not tried to Islamize Tajikistan. The IRPs initial importance stemmed from emphasising that Islam was more important than regional or national affiliations.
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Extractions: XoraSun Below you can find the Powerpoint presentation (MS Office 2000 version) on doing business in Tajikistan that I have prepared and presented on Jul. 1, 2000 during the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry 2000 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA). There were interns coming from 37 countries and I was the only one-ever (yes, I am proud!!) to represent our Bait-ul-Sharaf, TAJIKISTAN. I hope that you like it. To entrepreneurs who are looking for doing business in this mysterious and exciting country: "A Warm Tajiki Welcome!!" Also, you can find Tajikistan Photo Albums in PDF Format. Make sure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 installed on your computer. View and Join 4NEWTJ Group Click to subscribe to 4newtj No doubt we are a talented nation. We have lived through both the highs and lows of our collective history. The ancient rivers of inspiration produced many of genius who moulded the tough clays of our experience into timeless wisdom and beautiful art. The same spirit that nourished our past greatness is now broken with grief at the parched landscape of our lives. But come springtime, the caked earth will bloom again; the dark hefty icebergs will melt and the sun will rise again over this land of fairy tales.
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Extractions: Print Preview Tajikistan Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Tajikistan III. The People of Tajikistan The population of Tajikistan (2004 estimate) is 7,011,556, giving the republic an average population density of 49 persons per sq km (127 per sq mi). The lowlands of northern and western Tajikistan are the most densely populated areas. Large cities include Dushanbe, the capital, a modern city located in the Hisor Valley of western Tajikistan; and Khujand, an important cotton-processing center located in northern Tajikistanâs Fergana Valley. Tajikistan was the least urbanized republic of the former USSR. In 2002 only 28 percent of the population lived in urban areas. From the late 1950s strong urban growth, fed by immigrants from other republics, was matched by rapid growth in the rural population. Between 1959 and 1989, the population of the republic increased by more than 100 percent due to a high birth rate and improvements in medical care. During the early 1990s, however, the growth rate began to decline due to civil war and emigration. A.
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Extractions: In response to Anthony Richter's comments, I would like to clarify. In saying that the problems of Tajikistan are not rooted in ethnic relations, one must of course acknowledge that 1) the conflict has had a profound impact on ethnic relations, because 2) political aspirations have often been pursued though efforts to mobilize people along ethnic or *regional* lines. When people are disenfranchized or promoted, killed or protected because they belong to one group or another, it is inevitable that they will behave as if their primary political interest is ethnic or regional. However, if Boimatov entered Tajikistan after receiving support and endorsement from the government of Ozbekistan, I would consider this a matter of power politics. If his primary motivation is dissatisfaction with the Kolabi leadership's broad program of placing their loyal followers from Kolab region in positions of power throughout the country, this again is not so much a matter of ethnic relations but of power, and it is doubtless a disatisfaction felt not only by Ozbeks in Tajikistan but also by representatives of many ethnic groups and regions throughout the country.
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