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Encyclopedia: History of Tajikistan
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Information on Tajikistan — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map and the national flag. Map of Tajikistan History & Gov't...
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Related content from HighBeam Research on: Tajikistan: History Inside Central Asia.(Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran)(Brief article)(Book review) (California Bookwatch)
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Tajikistan Histor History Introduction All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Tajikistan History should be addressed to the Library of Congress.
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The territory of Tajikistan has been continuously inhabited since the early Stone Age. The first Central Asian states of Sogdia and Bactria in the first millennium BC , included portions of Tajikistan.
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Located 30 km from Dushanbe (4-5 km from Hissar settlement) is one of the most important landmarks of Tajikistan - Hissar History and Culture Reserve. This name is related to archeological and architectural monuments of different ages found on its 86-hectar territory.
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Much, if not all, of what is today Tajikistan was part of ancient Persia's Achaemenid Empire (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.), which was subdued by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C. and then became part of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, one of the successor states to Alexander's empire.
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The history in general of Central Asia World History Archives home page and index The retrospective history of the Republic of Tajikistan...
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A History of Central Asia to 1600; A History of Central Asia from 1600; Rewriting Tajik History; The History of a National Catastrophe, by Rahim Masov. On Tajikistan in the 1920's ; An Ethnography of Tajikistan; "History of Turkmenistan" ;
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