Question: What are some of the empires and dynasties that have also ruled over this land?
Answer: Achaemenid Empire, Sassanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, Mongol Empire, Timurid dynasty, and the Russian Empire

Question: What other culutres has ruled the area?
Answer: Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism

Question: What was the territory of Tajikistan during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age?
Answer: city of Sarazm

Question: When did Tajikistan become an independent nation?
Answer: 1991

Question: What years did the civil war take place?
Answer: 1992 to 1997

Question: What were some of the different kindoms and people that called Tajikistan home?
Answer: Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism

Question: What are some of the empires and dynasties that ruled this lane?
Answer: the Achaemenid Empire, Sassanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, Mongol Empire, Timurid dynasty, and the Russian Empire

Question: What year did Tajikistan become an independant nation?
Answer: 1991

Question: What years did the war last through?
Answer: 1992 to 1997

Question: When did Tajiks start being part of the Soviet Army?
Answer: 1939

Question: How many Tajik troops fought against Germany, Finland and Japan during WWII?
Answer: 260,000 Tajik

Question: What percent of Tajiks were killed during the war?
Answer: Between 60,000(4%) and 120,000(8%)

Question: What was not developing as fast as other Soviet Republics?
Answer: living conditions, education and industry

Question: How were the different factions distinguished from eachother?
Answer: by clan loyalties

Question: What did the ceasefire guaranteed?
Answer: 30% of ministerial positions would go to the opposition

Question: Who came into power in 1992?
Answer: Emomali Rahmon

Question: Why did more than half a million people flee?
Answer: because of persecution, increased poverty and better economic opportunities

Question: Who was stationed along the boarder?
Answer: Russian border troops

Question: Where have French Troops been stationed since September 11, 2001?
Answer: at the Dushanbe Airport

Question: Where is the main base for the Tajikistan air force?
Answer: t located 15 km southwest of Dushanbe

Question: Why do US troops visit Tajikistan every so often?
Answer: to conduct joint training missions of up to several weeks duration.

Question: How many solider were killed in September when Islamic militants escaped?
Answer: 28 Tajik soldiers

Question: When did Russia say they will be sending more troops to Tajikistan?
Answer: 2015

Question: When did the military operation end in Rasht Valley?
Answer: November 2010

Question: Why was there concerns in 2010?
Answer: that Islamic militarism in the east of the country was on the rise following the escape of 25 militants from a Tajik prison in August

Question: What type of government does Tajikistan have?
Answer: a republic

Question: Who is the prime minister of Tajikistan?
Answer: Kokhir Rasulzoda

Question: Who are the Deputy Prime Ministers?
Answer: Murodali Alimardon and Ruqiya Qurbanova

Question: When was Emomalii Rahmon elected president?
Answer: November 1994

Question: What kind of system is a dominant-party system?
Answer: where the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan routinely has a vast majority in Parliament

Question: Even though Tajikistan has freedom of the press, what is the problem with it?
Answer: independent press outlets remain restricted

Question: What is not tolerated by the government in respect to media?
Answer: no public criticism of the regime is tolerated

Question: What is not covered by local media?
Answer: all direct protest is severely suppressed

Question: What access is blocked?
Answer: access is blocked to local and foreign websites including avesta.tj, Tjknews.com, ferghana.ru, centrasia.ru

Question: What is the smalled nation in the Central Asia area?
Answer: Tajikistan

Question: What mountian range runs through Tajikistan?
Answer: the Pamir range

Question: Where is Dushanbe located?
Answer: on the southern slopes above the Kofarnihon valley

Question: Where exactly is Tajikistan?
Answer: between latitudes 36° and 41° N (a small area is north of 41°), and longitudes 67° and 75° E (a small area is east of 75°)

Question: What area is under sea level?
Answer: in the north (part of the Fergana Valley), and in the southern Kofarnihon and Vakhsh river valleys

Question: Where did the word Tajik come from?
Answer: the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) tribe

Question: What does Tajikistan mean?
Answer: "Land of the Tajiks"

Question: What does the suffix -stan mean?
Answer: "place of" or "country"

Question: Why is it hard to find the origin of the word Tajik?
Answer: because the term is "embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia."

Question: When was the region under Tibetan empire and the CHinese?
Answer: 650–680

Question: Who took control of the regin in 710?
Answer: Umayyads

Question: Who restored Persian control of the region?
Answer: The Samanid Empire,

Question: What was the name of the region when it was the cultural center of Iran?
Answer: Khorasan

Question: When was the land under Tibetan empire and Chinese?
Answer: 650–680

Question: When was Tajikistan under Ymayyads contorl?
Answer: 710

Question: Who conquered Tansaxania?
Answer: The Kara-Khanid Khanate

Question: When did the Samanid Empire rule the land?
Answer: The Samanid Empire

Question: When did the Russian Empire take over Central Asia?
Answer: during the late 19th century's Imperial Era

Question: Who controled the Tajikistan portion of Russian Trukestan?
Answer: the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate of Kokand

Question: What was Russian interested in Tajikistan area for?
Answer: gaining access to a supply of cotton

Question: What did Russia do between 1864-1885?
Answer: Russia gradually took control of the entire territory of Russian Turkestan

Question: In 1885, who was ruling the Tajikistan area?
Answer: the Russian Empire or its vassal state, the Emirate of Bukhara

Question: What did the Jadidists establish themselves as in the late 19th century?
Answer: an Islamic social movement throughout the region

Question: Who were viewed as a threat by the Jadidists?
Answer: Russians

Question: When was the uprising against the Khanate of Kokand?
Answer: between 1910 and 1913

Question: Why did demonstrators attack Russian soldiers in Khujand?
Answer: the threat of forced conscription during World War I

Question: Who went to war against Bolshevick armies?
Answer: guerrillas throughout Central Asia, known as basmachi

Question: What did they go to war against Bolshevick?
Answer: to maintain independence

Question: Who won the war?
Answer: The Bolsheviks

Question: What religions were discourages so their places of worship were closed?
Answer: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

Question: In 1924, what was created as part of Uzbekistan?
Answer: Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Question: Where was the expansion of cotton and agriculture mainly?
Answer: in the southern region

Question: What happeded between 1927-1934?
Answer: collectivization of agriculture and a rapid expansion of cotton production took place

Question: What forced resettlement throughout Tajikistan?
Answer: Soviet collectivization policy brought violence against peasants and forced resettlement

Question: Who directed the purges of Soviets?
Answer: Moscow

Question: How many people were expelled??
Answer: nearly 10,000 people

Question: Who were sent to replace the expelled positions?
Answer: Ethnic Russians

Question: What did the population of Russians do between 1926-1959?
Answer: grew from less than 1% to 13%