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Bookmark or Share- Tajik | Central Asian, Persian, Pamiri, & Iranian Language - BritannicaTajik, a Persian-speaking people of Central Asia located primarily in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and China’s Xinjiang province. The Tajiks constitute more than four-fifths of the population of Tajikistan. In the 2010s there were more than 7.5 million Tajiks in Tajikistan and more than 1.5 million in Uzbekistan.
- Tajikistan - The World FactbookThe Tajik people came under Russian imperial rule in the 1860s and 1870s, but Russia's hold on Central Asia weakened following the Revolution of 1917. At that time, bands of indigenous guerrillas (known as "basmachi") fiercely contested Bolshevik control of the area, which was not fully reestablished until 1925.
- Tajikistan - Culture, Traditions, Cuisine | BritannicaTajik literature stems from a broader Persian literary tradition that can be traced back to the poet Rūdakī. Tajiks consider the Shāh-nāmeh to be the national epic and cherish the work of Rūmī. A number of Tajik poets and novelists achieved fame during the 20th century.
- Tajikistan | People, Religion, History, & Facts | BritannicaThe Tajik people share close kinship and their language with a much larger population of the same nationality living in northeastern Afghanistan, whose population also includes a large proportion speaking Dari, a dialect of Persian intelligible to Tajiks.
- TAJIKS - Facts and DetailsIn the 11th century, the nomadic Turkic tribes called people "Tajiks" who lived in Central Asia, spoke Iranian and believed in Islam. Tajik people who had lived in various areas of Xinjiang and those who had moved from the western Pamirs to settle in Taxkorgan at different times are ancestors of the present-day Tajik ethnic group in China.
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