Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan
Monday, 18 February 2019 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien General
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Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of
Tajikistan . Dushanbe means
Monday in the
Tajik language , the local language is
Parya language . It was named this way because it grew from a village that originally had a popular market on Mondays. As of 2016, Dushanbe had a population of 803,000.
Historically a small village, Dushanbe was made the capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe , and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad (Tajik : Stalinobod ) which was named after Joseph Stalin .
National Library of Tajikistan © Шухрат Саъдиев/cc-by-sa-3.0
Severe rioting occurred in February 1990, after it was rumored that
the Soviet government planned to relocate tens of thousands of Armenian refugees to Tajikistan. The
Dushanbe riots were primarily fueled by concerns about housing shortages for the Tajik population, but they coincided with a wave of nationalist unrest that swept Transcaucasia and other Central Asian states during the twilight of
Mikhail Gorbachev ‘s rule. In January 2017, Rustam Emomali, current President Emomali Rahmon’s son, was appointed Mayor of Dushanbe, a move which is seen by some analysts as a step to reaching the top of the government.
The city is served by
Dushanbe International Airport which as of April 2015, had regularly scheduled flights to major cities in Russia, Central Asia, as well as Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Kabul, and Ürümqi amongst others. Tajikistan’s principal railways are in the southern region and connect Dushanbe with the industrial areas of the
Hisor and
Vakhsh valleys and with
Uzbekistan ,
Turkmenistan ,
Kazakhstan and
Russia .
Read more on
City of Dushanbe ,
TajikTourism.com ,
LonelyPlanet.com – Tajikistan ,
Hyatt Regency Dushanbe ,
Wikitravel Dushanbe ,
Wikivoyage Dushanbe and
Wikipedia Dushanbe (
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