Tajiks, also spelled Tadzhiks or Tadjiks, are a group of various Persianate Eastern Iranian peoples native to Central Asia, living predominantly in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Al
A Tajik Nowruz festival in Tajikistan, 2018
Tajik family in Tajikistan.
Burhanuddin Rabbani served as President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again in 2001.
View of the Registan in Samarkand – although the second largest city of Uzbekistan, it is predominantly a Tajik-populated city, along with Bukhara.
Iranian peoples, or Iranic peoples, are a diverse collection of ethnolinguistic groups who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-
Tajiks
…Tajiks (Persian: تاجیکان, Tajik: Тоҷикон), also spelled Tadzhiks or Tadjiks, are a group of various Persianate Eastern Iranian peoples native to Central Asia, living predominantly in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Although the term Tajik does not refer to a…
The Bistun Inscription of Darius the Great describes itself to have been composed in Arya [language or script].
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe and across Central Asia.
According to Allentoft (2015), the Sintashta culture probably derived from the Corded Ware culture.
Saka horseman, Pazyryk, from a carpet, c. 300 BC