Douchanbé

Douchanbé (Душанбе; دوشنبه ) is the capital of the Tadjikistan, a State of Central Asia. 600 000 inhabitants. Under the Soviet mode , the city bore the name of Stalinabad (of 1929 with 1961).

Its name comes from the Persan word meaning “Monday” ( “two” + shamba or shanbe “day”, reads. “day two”) and refers to the fact that it is necessary a popular market Monday. Douchanbé is located at 38°33' Northern and 68°48' Is.

History

Archaeological remainders dating from were on the spot discovered. In 1920 the last Emir of Bukhara briefly took refuge in Douchanbé after being reversed at the time of the Russian Révolution. He took refuge in Afghanistan after the Red Army had conquered this place the following year. The city was briefly captured by Ismail Enver and its combatants in 1922 and was used staff for Ibrahim Bek, a chief Tadjik who fought the Bolcheviks.

With the victory of the Red Army and the advent of the railroad in 1929, the city became the capital of the socialist Republic Soviet Tadjik. In homage to Joseph Stalin, it was called Stalinabad , until 1961. Soviet transformed the place into production center for the Coton and the Aluminum, and moved there hundreds of thousands of people coming from all the Soviet Union. Douchanbé was peaceful and relatively prosperous city under the Soviet reign, sits of a university and Academy of Science Inhabitant of Tajik. Violent demonstrations took place in 1990, after the plans of relocalization of ten thousands of Armenian refugees, exacerbating a strong feeling of nationalism.

The city was strongly touched by the civil war in Tadjikistan (1992-1997) which touched the nation can of time after independence.

To see

the mosque Hadji Yakoub
the ethnographic museum

See too

External bonds

Douchanbé on Asie-centrale.com

Be-X-old: Душанбэ Simple: Dushanbe

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