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The Tajikistan Portal
Tajikistan, officially theRepublic of Tajikistan, is alandlocked country inCentral Asia.Dushanbe is itscapital and most populous city. Tajikistan bordersAfghanistan to thesouth,Uzbekistan to thewest,Kyrgyzstan to thenorth, andChina to theeast and is narrowly separated fromPakistan by Afghanistan'sWakhan Corridor. It has a population of more than 10.7 million people. The territory was previously home to cultures of theNeolithic and theBronze Age, including theOxus civilisation in west, with theIndo-Iranians arriving during theAndronovo culture. Parts of country were part of theSogdian andBactrian civilisations, and was ruled by those including theAchaemenids,Alexander the Great, theGreco-Bactrians, theKushans, theKidarites andHephthalites, theFirst Turkic Khaganate, theUmayyad andAbbasid Caliphates, theSamanid Empire, theKara-Khanids,Seljuks,Khwarazmians, theMongols,Timurids andKhanate of Bukhara. The region waslater conquered by theRussian Empire, before becoming part of theSoviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, thecountry's borders were drawn when it was part ofUzbekistan as anautonomous republic before becoming aconstituent republic of the Soviet Union on 5 December 1929. (Full article...) Selected article -show another The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer is a Multilateral EnvironmentalMemorandum of Understanding and was concluded in 2002 under the auspices of theConvention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as theBonn Convention, in collaboration with the Central Asia Programme of theWorld Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The MoU covers five range States (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). As of August 2012, four of them had signed the MoU, as well as a number of cooperating organizations. The MoU came into effect on 16 May 2002. (Full article...) Did you know? -show a different entry
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