Khujand prison riot — The Khujand prison riot began on 14 April 1997 when prisoners at Khujand Men s Correctional Labor Colony 3/19 in Khujand, Tajikistan began to protest living conditions and perceived injustice in the prison system. Security forces put down the… … Wikipedia
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Uar — Uar, Zh cp|c=滑|p=Huá (for Chinese etymology see Huá (滑)), was the self designation used by the dominant ethnicity in a confederation known to the Chinese as the Yanda (嚈噠) and to the west as the Hephthalites. It was the largest of one of the… … Wikipedia
Tajikistan — Republic of Tajikistan Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон Çumhuriji Toçikiston … Wikipedia
Kara-Khitan Khanate — This article refers to the Khitan Khanate. For the Turkic state, see Kara Khanid Khanate. Infobox Former Country native name = Хар Хятад conventional long name = Western Liao Kara Khitan Khanate common name = Kara Khitan Khanate continent =… … Wikipedia
History of Tajikistan — The current Tajik Republic harkens to the Samanid Empire (AD 875 ndash;999). The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860. Tajikistan became an autonomous Soviet socialist republic within Uzbekistan in 1924; Basmachi resistance in the… … Wikipedia
Sogdiana — or Sogdia ( uz. Sog diona, tg. Суғд Old Persian: Suguda ; PerB|سغد; Ancient Greek: polytonic|Σογδιανῆ; Chinese: , Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the eighteenth in the list… … Wikipedia
Gharmi people — ethnic group group=Gharmis poptime=90,000 (est.) popplace=Tajikistan rels=Sunni Islam langs=Tajik related=Other Iranian peoplesThe Gharmi, or Garmi people ( tg. Ғармӣ), originate from the Rasht Valley in central Tajikistan. From the 1920s to 1955 … Wikipedia
Turgesh — The Turgesh Kaganate (also Türgesh, Turgish or Türgish known as Tuchishi in Chinese) were a Turkic tribal confederation who emerged from the ruins of the Western Turkic Khaganate. In time, the Turgesh, themselves a branch of the greater Tardush… … Wikipedia
