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Tajiks Summary
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Tajiks (or Tadzhiks) are the original Iranian population of Central Asia, the present-day inhabitants of the nation of Tajikistan. Various groups of Tajiks, in Tajikistan, parts of central and southern Uzbekistan, northern Afghanistan, the Uighur...
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Tajik
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the original Iranian population of Afghanistan and Turkistan. The Tajiks constitute almost four-fifths of the population of Tajikistan. In the early 21st century there were more than 5,200,000 Tajiks in Tajikistan and more than 1,000,000 in Uzbekistan....
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This article is about the Central Asian Persians known as Tajiks. Refer to Persian people regarding Persians of Iran. Tājik (Persian: تاجيک; UniPers: Tâjik; Tajik: Тоҷик) is a term generally applied to Persian-speaking peoples of Iranian...


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The Washington Post
Tajik President Resigns In Opposition Custody
09/08/1992: 668 words, approx. 2 pages
The president of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, Rakhman Nabiyev, resigned today after being seized at gunpoint by opposition demonstrators while attempting to reach his home base in the north of the country. The ouster of Nabiyev, a long-time Communist Party official,...
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The Boston Globe
Repressive Tajik leader wins presidency
11/08/1994: 434 words, approx. 1 pages
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan -- The head of a regime that is accused of systematically murdering critics in a country wracked by civil war and poverty was declared the new president yesterday. Emomali Rakhmonov won 60 percent of the vote in Sunday's ballot, which attracted...
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AP News
Tajikistan leader: The party's over
3/27/2007: 251 words, approx. 1 pages
President Emomalii Rakhmon has banned high school graduation parties in this largely Muslim Central Asian nation, the latest in a string of edicts on Tajik cultural and social life.Rakhmon said he was concerned about the "pompous" and "excessive luxury" of school festivities, according to his...
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Tajikistan grapples with drug addiction
12/10/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pages
Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I liked it and it went from there," said the haggard, fidgety, out-of-work 24-year-old...
 


 

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