The main tie between Hamedan and Kulob is because of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, a famous sufi scholar and poet, who was born in Hamedan and is buried in Kulob.
He was buried at Kulob in Khatlan where people to this day gather in large numbers to pay their homage to him.
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Emomalii Rahmon, from Dangara in Kulob oblast, became president of Tajikistan in November 1992 when Kulobi militiamen took control of the capital Dushanbe from opposition forces.