MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Tajikistan
ONE LAND · 4 ATLASES
Tajikistan, on the map of history
What was Tajikistan before it was Tajikistan? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Badakhshan (mod. Tajikistan) · The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
| 1206 | The Islamic powers — the opening position |
| 1221 | The Mongol Empire |
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Russian Turkestan (mod. Tajikistan) · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924
The Tajik lands, part of the emirate of Bukhara and Russian Turkestan, were among the last reconquered. The Basmachi insurgency was fiercest here and lasted, on and off, into the mid-1920s — the civil war’s long tail in Central Asia.
| JAN 1905 | The Tsarist empire — the opening position |
| MAR 1917 | Provisional Government, then the Whites |
| NOV 1917 | Contested / peasant war |
| OCT 1920 | Soviet power |
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Tajikistan · The Great War, 1914–1918
| NOV 1914 | The Entente & Allies — the opening position |
| NOV 1918 | Russia in revolution |
Tajikistan · The Cold War, 1945–1991
| AUG 1945 | USSR & Warsaw Pact — the opening position |
| DEC 1991 | Non-aligned & neutral |
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