Dushanbe

View from a hill

Coat of arms

Dushanbe (Tajik: [Душанбе] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Persian: دوشنبهcode: fa is deprecated ) is the capital city of Tajikistan. About 562,000 people live in Dushanbe as of 2000. The name is borrowed from the Persian word for "Monday" (du "two" + shamba or shanbe "day", lit. "day two") and refers to the fact that it was a popular "Monday" market place.

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Dushanbe Media

The Carpet Bazaar [ Dushanbe ].
1911 color photograph of the last Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan
National delimitation of Central Asia; the Tajik ASSR is in light purple
Dushanbe World War II monument
February 1990 Riots in Dushanbe
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Dushanbe in the Gissar Valley
Dushanbe seismic map
Districts of Dushanbe before the 2020 expansionDark Green: Shah MansurPurple: Ismail SamaniLight Green: AvicennaYellow: Ferdowsi
Madrassa just west of Dushanbe