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Tajikistan

1 General maps
2 History maps
3 Satellite maps
4 Notes and references
- 4.1 Maps of divisions

	Тоҷикистон Таджикистан

Тоҷикӣ	Тоҷикистон - ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон^[1] Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон дар Осиёи Марказӣ ҷойгир шуда, аз ҷануб бо Афғонистон, аз щарқ бо Чин, аз шимол бо Қирғизистон ва аз шимол ва ғарб бо Ӯзбекистон ҳамсарҳад мебошад. Пойтахти Тоҷикистон Душанбе аст.
Русский	Таджикистан - Республика Таджикистан^[2] Таджикистан государство в Центральной Азии, бывшая Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика в составе СССР. На востоке Таджикистан граничит с Китаем, на севере и западе — с Киргизией и Узбекистаном, на юге с Афганистаном. Не имеет выхода к морю. Основное население — таджики.
English	Tajikistan - Republic of Tajikistan The Republic of Tajikistan is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders ► Afghanistan to the south, ► Uzbekistan to the west, ► Kyrgyzstan to the north, and ► China (► Xinjiang) to the east. It is home mainly to the Tajiks, who share culture and history with the Iranians, and speak the Tajiki dialect of Persian. Once the location of the famous Samanid Empire, Tajikistan became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in the 20th century, known as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.

Short name	Tajikistan
Official name	Republic of Tajikistan
Status	Independent country since 1991
Location	Central Asia
Capital	Душанбе (Dushanbe)
Population	7,320,000 inhabitants
Area	143,100 km²
Major language(s)	Tajik dialect of Persian (official), Russian
Major religion(s)	Islam
More information	Tajikistan, Geography of Tajikistan, History of Tajikistan and Politics of Tajikistan
More images	Tajikistan - Tajikistan (Category).

General maps

Map of Tajikistan

Provinces of Tajikistan

Districts of Tajikistan

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Tajikistan, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Tajikistan.

The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent

The Persian Achaemenid Empire

The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander

Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)

Hellenistic successor states:

██ Kingdom of Ptolemy

██ Kingdom of Cassander

██ Kingdom of Lysimachus

██ Kingdom of Seleucus

██ Epirus

Other states:

██ Carthage

██ Rome

██ Greek colonies

Hellenistic world in 200 BCE

Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250-125 BCE)

Greek-Bactrian Kingdom

The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)

Map of Scythia and Parthia 100 BC

Indo-Sassanide Empire

The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.

Sassanide Empire

Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman

Age of the Caliphs

Caliphate around 750

Map of the Western (purple) and Eastern (blue) Göktürk Khaganates at their height, ca. 600 CE. Lighter areas show direct rule; darker areas show spheres of influence.

The region around 1000

The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194

The Khwarezmid Empire around 1220

Empire of Genghis Khan at his death in 1227

Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)

██ Mongol Empire

By 1294 the empire had split into:

██ Golden Horde

██ Chagatai Khanate

██ Ilkhanate

██ Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)

The Timurid Empire 1405

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In 1873 Buchara became a satellite state of the Russian Empire. This map shows the Russian expansion from 1533 to 1896

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire in 1866

History of the Russian Empire (in German)

Central Asia in 1900

Russia in 1912

Russia becomes the Soviet Union in 1922 and in 1924 parts of Buchara and Pamir, Russian since 1873, became part of Russia inside the Soviet Union. In 1929 Tajkikistan becomes a separate member republic of the Soviet Union

Evolution of the Soviet Union

The republics of the USSR

Tajikistan in the USSR

Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union

Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989

Satellite maps

Satellite map

Notes and references

General remarks:

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↑ Romanization: Tojikiston - Jumhurii Tojikiston.
↑ {{romrus|Tadzhikistan - Respublika Tadzhikistan.

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