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.
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.
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.
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
Notes and references
The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.