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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Tajikistan.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet

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Examples

  • With the disintegration of the USSR, many of the former Soviet States Azerbezian, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirghistan, and Turkmenistan are Islamic in nature.

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  • One official in Tadzhikistan told Izvestia that "the price rise is fraught with unpredictable social consequences," and the president of Uzbekistan said his republic would have to take "protective measures" to insulate itself against inflation in Russia.

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  • February 13, anti-Armenian rioting in Dushanbe, the capital of Tadzhikistan, leaves 37 dead.

    Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure 1991

  • At least Bondarenko would have a chance to try out his teeth on the feather merchants down in Tadzhikistan.

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  • Tadzhikistan (former name Tajikistan 39 00 N 71 00 E for Tajikistan)

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  • So the leaders of Kyrgyzia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenia and Uzbekistan met with Kazakhstan on

    openDemocracy 2010

  • Of particular concern was the civil war in Tadzhikistan in which Russia and Uzbekistan were involved.

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  • Russia and Tadzhikistan signed it into being in Astana.

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  • In Turkmenia, Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan, the tiger favoured river and lake basins, densely grown reeds, plume grass or tugai forests consisting of.

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  • Polymorphism of haemoglobin, transferrin, prealbumin and postalbumin in fat-rumped and fine-wooled sheep in Tadzhikistan

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