Tajikistan

, Tadzhikistan, Tadjikistan

a republic in central Asia: under Uzbek rule from the 15th century until taken over by Russia in the 1860s, it became an autonomous Soviet republic in 1929 and gained full independence from the Soviet Union in 1991; it is mainly mountainous. Official language: Tajik or Tajiki. Religion: believers are mainly Muslim. Currency: somoni. Capital: Dushanbe. Pop.: 6 297 000 (2004 est.). Area: 143 100 sq. km (55 240 sq. miles)

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Tajikistan

Official name: Republic of Tajikistan

Capital city: Dushanbe

Internet country code: .tj

Flag description: Three horizontal stripes of red (top), a wider stripe of white, and green; a gold crown surmounted by seven gold five-pointed stars is located in the center of the white stripe

Geographical description: Central Asia, west of China

Total area: 55,251 sq. mi. (143,100 sq. km.)

Climate: Mid-latitude continental, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains

Nationality: noun: Tajikistani(s); adjective: Tajikistani

Population: 7,076,598 (July 2007 CIA est.)

Ethnic groups: Tajik 79.9%, Uzbek 15.3%, Russian 1.1%, Kyrgyz 1.1%, other 2.6%

Languages spoken: Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business

Religions: Sunni Muslim 85%, Shi’a Muslim 5%, other 10%

Legal Holidays:

Constitution Day	Nov 6
Independence Day	Sep 9
International Women's Day	Mar 8
Labor Day	May 1
New Year's Day	Jan 1
Unity Day	Jun 27
Victory Day	May 9

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Jamaat Ansarullah, (16) an Afghanistan-based Tajikistani terrorist group, was formed in 2010 with likely fewer than 100 members and has since received support from the IMU, the Taliban, and al-Qa'ida.

Converging Factors Signal Increasing Terror Threat to Tajikistan

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in the vicinity of Chahar Dara district, leaving at least 31 militants dead, including a Tajikistani national.

Tajik National among 48 Killed, Wounded in Kunduz Operations

He said the Tajikistani president had said that joint efforts in this direction had also laid a solid foundation for the development of a new sustainable development agenda, in which water resources are given a central place as a key element of this process.

Tajikistan proposes expanding public-private partnership in water sector

Tajikistani economists were, of course, limited by their training and socialization as Soviet economists, by the language of the field they worked in, and by institutions modeled on similar structures in Moscow.

Central planning, local knowledge? Labor, population, and the "Tajik School of Economics"

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According to a rough estimate, almost 1.2 millions tajikistanis are living in Pakistan.

Pakistan-Tajikistan Relations

DOHA, June 14 (KUNA) -- The Qatari Foreign Ministry announced late Saturday the success of its mediation efforts, made at the behest of the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to free four Tajikistani soldiers from captivity in Afghanistan.

Qatari mediation succeeds in releasing 4 kidnapped Tajiks

A day earlier, Kunduz Governor Ghulam Sakhi Baghlani and residents said a large number of Tajikistani, Uzbekistani, Chechen and other foreign militants had sneaked into Dasht-i-Archi to disrupt the polls.

Offensive begins to boost pre-poll security

For example, 51 percent of Tajikistani firms reported that they introduced a new product and 78 percent upgraded an existing product line.

What determines firms' innovation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Her usurpation of the role of the family head as the decision maker is, as Colettes suggests in the case of some Tajikistani Muslim wives, facilitated by the fact that she had more responsibility at home at an earlier age than her brothers.

South Asian fiction and marital agency of Muslim wives