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9 unusual facts about Tājik people


Abdujalil Samadov

Abdujalil Akhadovich Samadov (November 4, 1949 – March 18, 2004) was a Tajik politician.

Abdul Momim

During the Civil war in Afghanistan, General Abdul Momim or Abdul Mumin(?-January 5, 1994), was an ethnic Tajik officer who played a crucial role in the downfall of the government of Mohammad Najibullah.

Alexander Frank

Alexander Frank (born 23 September 1982) is a German footballer of Tajik origin.

Baz Mohammad Ahmadi

Ahmadi is an ethnic Tajik and was a mid-level commander in the Jamiat Islami military alliance under Ahmed Shah Massoud that fought in the civil wars that dominated Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces in the early 1990s.

Habiburahman Parandi

Habiburahman Parandi was a Tajik battalion commander of Baba Jan's regiment during the Siege of Kabul.

Hisor

As of 2002, it had a population of 22,961, composed 81.6% of Tajiks, 12.3% Uzbeks, 3.6% Russians, and 2.5% others.

Negmatullo Saidovich Kurbanov

Negmatullo Saidovich Kubanov (b 30 September 1963) is a Tajik major general in the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan.

Tajik American

Tajik Americans or Tajikstani Americans are American citizens of Tajik descent.

Turkic migration

Thus the ethnonym "Turk" for the diverse Islamized Turkic tribes somehow served the same function as the name "Tajik" did for the diverse Iranian peoples who converted to Islam and adopted Persian as their lingua-franca.


Afghan National Anthem

This is the country of every tribe,
The land of Baloch and Uzbeks,
Pashtuns and Hazaras,
Turkmen and Tajiks.

Arslanbob

The town of Arslanbob has around 1500 inhabitants; most of the population are Kyrgyz and Uzbek, and less than 1% is Russian, Tatar, Tajik, or Chechen.

Barno Itzhakova

Known as the Queen of the Shashmaqom tradition of Tajik music, she sang side by side on the radio and television with other famous performers of the Tajik Soviet Era such as Neriyo Aminov, Rafael Tolmasov, Shoista Mullodzhanova, Hanifa Mavlianova, Rena Galibova, Ahmad Boboqulov, and others.

Early history of Tajikistan

Iranian peoples, including ancestors of the modern Tajiks, have inhabited Central Asia since at least the earliest recorded history of the region, which began some 2,500 years ago.

Pakistani people

There are countless other ethnic groups that make up part of Pakistani's mosaic such as the Bengalis, Burmese, Hazara, Tajik, Persian, Arab and Hakka; the last are an ethnic group that traces its origin to China.

Takhir Sabirov

The Scheherazade trilogies were among one of the first Tajik film productions that achieved distribution beyond Russian (former USSR) borders, placing Tajik film on the map of International Film Festivals.

Turkic migration

It is ethnically diverse, and includes homelands of non-Turkic peoples like the Tajiks, Pashtuns, Hazaras, Dungans, Dzungars.


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