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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.
Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a sovereign, doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan
Tajiks
…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 cohesive transnational ethnic group, Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan and the second-largest…
Female statuette wearing the kaunakes. Chlorite and limestone, Bactria, beginning of the second millennium BC.
Triumphant crowd at Registan, Sher-Dor Madrasah. The Emir of Bukhara viewing the severed heads of Russian soldiers on poles. Painting by Vasily Vereshchagin (1872).
Two Sart men and two Sart boys in Samarkand, c. 1910
Russian troops taking Samarkand in 1868, by Nikolay Karazin