Country · 329 BCE – today
Tajikistan
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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe, its capital, is its largest and most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east; it is narrowly separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. Its total population exceeds 11 million.
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Key people
Rumi1207 – 1273Iranian poetSource: Wikidata (country of birthplace)
Emomali Rahmonb. 1952President of Tajikistan (1992-present)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Rudaki859 CE – 941 CEPersian poet, the father of Persian poetrySource: Wikidata (country of birthplace)
Nasir Khusraw1004 – 108811th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionarySource: Wikidata (country of birthplace)
Everything that happened
- 329 BCEBattle of JaxartesSyr DaryaThe Battle of Jaxartes was fought in 329 BC by Alexander the Great and his Hellenic (Greek) army against the Saka at the River Jaxartes, now known as the Syr Darya River. The site of the battle straddles the modern borders of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, just south-west of the ancient city of Tashkent (the modern capital of Uzbekistan) and north-east of Khujand (a city in Tajikistan).Source: Wikidata (country)
- 724 CEDay of ThirstKhujandThe "Day of Thirst" (Arabic: ﻳﻮﻢ ﺍلعطش, romanized: Yawm al-aṭash) is the name traditionally given in Arabic historiography to a battle fought in 724 between the Turkic Türgesh Khaganate and the Umayyad Caliphate on the banks of the Syr Darya river, in Transoxiana (in modern Tajikistan, Central Asia).Source: Wikidata (country)