Tajikistan,officially the Republic of Tajikistan,is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and most populous city. Tajikistan is bordered by Afghanistan to the south,Uzbekistan to the west,Kyrgyzstan to the north,and China to the east. It is separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. Tajiks form the ethnic majority in the country and their national language is Tajik,a variety of Persian.
Tajikistan harkens to the Samanid Empire (819–999). The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860s. The Basmachi revolt broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was quelled in the early 1920s during the Russian Civil War. In 1924,Tajikistan became an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union,the Tajik ASSR,within Uzbekistan. In 1929,Tajikistan was made one of the component republics of the Soviet Union –Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic –and it kept that status until gaining independence 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Tajiks are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia,living primarily in Afghanistan,Tajikistan,and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan,and the second-largest in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. They speak varieties of Persian,a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan,since the 1939 Soviet census,its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. In China,the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups,the Tajiks of Xinjiang,who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. In Afghanistan,the Pamiris are counted as a separate ethnic group.
Samarkand or Samarqand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarqand is the capital of Samarqand Region and a district-level city,that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar,Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021),it is the third-largest city of Uzbekistan.
Ismail I was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran,ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history,as well as one of the gunpowder empires. The rule of Ismail I is one of the most vital in the history of Iran. Before his accession in 1501,Iran,since its conquest by the Arabs eight-and-a-half centuries earlier,had not existed as a unified country under native Iranian rule. Although many Iranian dynasties rose to power amidst this whole period,it was only under the Buyids that a vast part of Iran properly returned to Iranian rule (945–1055).
The Economic Cooperation Organization or ECO is an Eurasian political and economic intergovernmental organization that was founded in 1985 in Tehran by the leaders of Iran,Pakistan,and Turkey. It provides a platform to discuss ways to improve development and promote trade and investment opportunities. The ECO is an ad hoc organisation under the United Nations Charter. The objective is to establish a single market for goods and services,much like the European Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union,the ECO expanded to include Afghanistan,Azerbaijan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan,and Uzbekistan in 1992.
Safi-ad-Din Ardabili was a Kurdish poet,mystic,teacher and Sufi master. He was the son-in-law and spiritual heir of the Sufi master Zahed Gilani,whose order—the Zahediyeh—he reformed and renamed the Safaviyya,which he led from 1301 to 1334.
Ardeshir Zahedi,GCVO was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as the country's foreign minister from 1966 to 1971,and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Northern Alliance,officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan,was a military alliance of groups that operated between early 1992 and 2001 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union,many non-Pashtun Northerners originally with the Republic of Afghanistan led by Mohammad Najibullah became disaffected with Pashtun Khalqi Afghan Army officers holding control over non-Pashtun militias in the North. Defectors such as Rashid Dostum and Abdul Momim allied with Ahmad Shah Massoud and Ali Mazari forming the Northern Alliance. The alliance's capture of Mazar-i-Sharif and more importantly the supplies kept there crippled the Afghan military and began the end of Najibullah's government. Following the collapse of Najibullah's government the Alliance would fall with a 2nd Civil war breaking out however following the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's (Taliban) takeover of Kabul,The United Front was reassembled.
Ali-qoli Khan,commonly known by his regnal title Adel Shah was the second shah of Afsharid Iran,ruling from 1747 to 1748. He was the nephew and successor of Nader Shah,the founder of the Afsharid dynasty.
Baurzhan Mukhamejanov is a Kazakh politician and Doctor of Law who served as Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Georgia from May 30,2018 to December 9,2022. Prior to that,Mukhamejanov was the ambassador to Lithuania and Latvia,äkim of Mangystau Region from 22 December 2011 to 18 January 2013,Minister of Internal Affairs from 14 October 2005 to 2 April 2009,Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 29 January 2002 to 13 June 2003,and Minister of Justice from 13 October 1997 to 13 September 2000.
Shamshad Ahmad is a veteran Pakistani diplomat,international relations expert and an author who served in BPS-22 grade as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan from 1997 to 2000. He also served as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations between 2000 till 2002. Shamshad Ahmad also was the Pakistan's ambassador to South Korea and Iran.
This page shows the Kyrgyzstan national football team's results in International Matches,as recognized by FIFA:
Content from the United States diplomatic cables leak has depicted Asia and Oceania subjects extensively. The leak,which began on 28 November 2010,occurred when the website of WikiLeaks —an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and news leaks —started to publish classified documents of detailed correspondence —diplomatic cables —between the United States Department of State and its diplomatic missions around the world. Since the initial release date,WikiLeaks is releasing further documents every day.
Mohsen Rais,also known as Mirza Mohsen Khan,was an Iranian diplomat and served as foreign minister and as ambassador during the Pahlavi era.
Escudero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Afsharid Iran,also referred as the Afsharid Empire,was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan,ruling Iran (Persia). The state was ruled by the Afsharid dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. The dynasty was founded in 1736 by the brilliant military commander Nader Shah,who deposed the last member of the Safavid dynasty and proclaimed himself as the Shah of Iran.
The Embassy of the United States in Tajikistan is a diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Republic of Tajikistan. The embassy is located in the capital of Tajikistan,the city of Dushanbe. The country participates in the C5+1 diplomatic summit.
