Ismail Samani
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Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā'īl ibn-i Aḥmad-i Sāmāni, better known simply as Amir Ismail-i Samani, and also known as Isma'il ibn-i Ahmad, was the Samanid amir of Transoxiana and Khorasan. His reign saw the emerge
The statue of Ismail Samani in the city of Dushanbe
Picture of the Samanid Mausoleum, the burial site of Ismail.
100 somoni bill, from Tajikistan
Ismoil Somoni Peak
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Ismoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in Tajikistan, as well as the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union before Tajikistan's independence. The mountain is named after Ismail Samani, a ruler of
Ismail Samani
…the former Soviet Union) was renamed after Ismail. The mountain, formerly known as "Stalin Peak" and "Communism Peak", was subsequently renamed as the Ismoil Somoni Peak. Al-Sawad al-A'zam…
Ismoil Somoni Peak (also known as Pik Kommunizma) in 2023
Junko Tabei on Communism Peak in 1985 together with two other Japanese and four Estonian mountaineers. Photo by Jaan Künnap.