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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and most populous city. Tajikistan is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. It is separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the city of Sarazm, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam. The area has been ruled by empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, and Mongol Empire. After being ruled by the Timurid Empire and Khanate of Bukhara, the Timurid Renaissance flourished. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929. (Full article...)

commander1 = Tajikistan Rahmon Nabiyev
Tajikistan Akbarsho Iskandrov
Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon
Uzbekistan Islam Karimov
Russia Boris Yeltsin
Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev
Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev
United NationsJordan Hassan Abaza
commander2 = Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (UTO)
Mohammed Sharif Himmatzade (IRP)
Ibn al-Khattab
Shadman Youssof (Democratic Party)
strength1 = Tajikistan 42,000–45,000
Russia 5,000–15,000 border troops
Uzbekistan 20,600
Kazakhstan 10,300
Kyrgyzstan 278
strength2 = Estimated around 50,000–70,000 casualties1 = Unknown casualties2 = Unknown casualties3 = 20,000–150,000 killed
1.2 million displaced
notes =
casus = Political struggle between Tajikistan's ruling elite and the opposition. campaignbox = (Full article...)

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