Group
Tajik people
Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of Persian-speaking people of Iranic origin, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
There are also smaller communities living in Iran and Pakistan; consisting mainly of refugees from Afghanistan and immigrants from Tajikistan.
In terms of language, culture, and history the Tajiks are closely related to the Persians of Iran.As a self-designation, the term Tajik, which earlier on had been more or less pejorative, has become acceptable only during the last several decades, particularly as a result of Soviet administration in Central Asia.
Alternative names for the Tajiks are Fārsī (Persian), Fārsīwān (Persian-speaker), and Dīhgān (cf.
Tajik: Деҳқон, Dehqon, literally "farmer or settled villager", in a wider sense "settled" in contrast to "nomadic").
The Tajiks of China, although known by the name Tajik, speak Eastern Iranian languages and are distinct from Persian Tajiks.
Member Cities
- 'Chaghcharan Ghowr Afghanistan Location
- Ajmer Rajasthan India Location
- Ayodhya > Saketa Uttar Pradesh India Location
- Balkh Balkh Afghanistan Location
- Bamian Bamian Afghanistan Location
- Bikrampur > Vikrampur Dhaka (Dhaka) Bangladesh Location
- Bukhara Bukhara Uzbekistan Location
- Delhi Delhi India Location
- Dushanbe > Dusanbe Dusanbe Tajikistan Location
- Ferghana > Fergana Ferghana Uzbekistan Location
- Firozabad Uttar Pradesh India Location
- Ghazni Ghazni Afghanistan Location
- Gurganj > Kunya Urgench Dashhowuz Turkmenistan Location
- Hansi Haryana India Location
- Herat Herat Afghanistan Location
- Kabul Kabol Afghanistan Location
- Kashgar > Kashi Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (Sinkiang) China Location
- Kyzylorda Kyzylorda Region Kazakhstan Location
- Lahore Punjab Pakistan Location
- Merv > Mary Mary Turkmenistan Location
- Multan Punjab Pakistan Location
- Nabadwip West Bengal India Location
- Nalanda Bihar India Location
- Patna > Pataliputra Bihar India Location
- Qarshi Kashkadarya Uzbekistan Location
- Rusan Gorno-Badakhshan Tajikistan Location
- Samana Punjab India Location
- Samarkand Samarkand Uzbekistan Location
- Santo Domingo Distrito Nacional Dominican Republic Location
- Tabriz Azarbayjan-e Sharqi Iran Location
- Taraori > Tarain Haryana India Location
- Tashkent Tashkent Uzbekistan Location
- Varanasi (Benares) Uttar Pradesh India Location
- Zarafshan Navoi Uzbekistan Location