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• TĀJ-al-SALṬANA

  Afsaneh Najmabadi

  (1884-1936), one of the best known daughters of the Qajar king Nāṣer-al-Din Shah (r. 1848-96), due to her memoirs (Ḵāterāt), written in 1914, which were first partially published in 1969 and whose authenticity has been disputed.

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• TAJADDOD

  Nassereddin Parvin

  (Modernity), a newspaper published as the official organ of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, of which a total of 202 issues appeared in Tabriz.

• TAJIK

  Multiple Authors

  i. The Ethnonym: Origins and Application. ii. Tajik Persian. iii. Colloquial Tajiki in Comparison with Persian of Iran.

• TAJIK i. THE ETHNONYM: ORIGINS AND APPLICATION

  John Perry

  The Tajiks are an Iranian people, speaking a variety of Persian, concentrated in the Oxus Basin, the Farḡāna valley (Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan) and on both banks of the upper Oxus.

• TAJIK ii. TAJIK PERSIAN

  John Perry

  Tajiki Persian is the variety of New Persian used in Central Asia. From the 1920s it was officially fostered in the USSR as the national literary language of the Tajik SSR (since 1991, the Republic of Tajikistan). It is also spoken in parts of Uzbekistan, notably in the cities of Bukhara and Samarqand.

• TAJIK iii. COLLOQUIAL TAJIKI IN COMPARISON WITH PERSIAN OF IRAN

  Bahriddin Aliev and Aya Okawa

  Fārsi of Iran (here called “Farsi” for short), Tajiki, and Dari are distinct branches of the Persian language, and within each branch a wide variety of local dialects exist.

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• TAJIKISTAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

  Habib Borjian

  Tajikistan’s leading research institution for coordinating and conducting theoretical and applied research projects.

• TAJIKISTAN i. STATUS OF ISLAM SINCE 1917

  Muriel Atkin

  Tajikistan’s population, which numbered slightly more than six million in the year 2000, consists overwhelmingly of ethnic groups which have historically been Muslim.

• TAJIKISTAN v. DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  Habib Borjian

  The alphabet change to Roman and then to Cyrillic (1928 and 1940) coupled with vernacularization of Tajik Persian, called for independent lexicography in Tajikistan.

• TAKLAMAKAN

  Alain Cariou

  the largest desert in China, and one of the largest deserts in the world. This desert basin is strategically situated on the famous Silk Road, which is the main caravan track joining China and West Eurasia with India via the Karakum pass, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Persia.

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