Kulob

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City in southwestern Tajikistan

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Kulob or Khatlon is a city in Khatlon Region in southern Tajikistan. Located 203 km southeast of the capital Dushanbe on the river Yakhsu (a right tributary of Panj), it is one of the largest cities in the country. Its population is estimated at 106,300 for the city proper and 214,700 for the city with the outlying communities (2020). The city is served by Kulob Airport.

History

Greek inscription

During the Hellenistic period following the conquests of Alexander the Great, the region of modern Kulob was part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. A Greek inscription dating to the period 200195BC has been discovered in which a person named Heliodotos dedicates a fire altar to Hestia for the sake of the king Euthydemus I and his son Demetrius I.

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Later history

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The historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari refers to Khatlon as early as AD 737, although its founding is said to have been much earlier. The Sufi mystic Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani died while travelling through Central Asia in 1384 and was buried in Khatlon in a tomb which still stands.

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The city was conquered by the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan and subsequently formed part of the Timurid Empire. It was incorporated into the Khanate of Bukhara in 1559

Following agreements between the British and Russian Empires over the disposition of Afghanistan, the city and its hinterland were incorporated into the Russian Empire as part of its conquest of most of Central Asia. After the Russian Revolution, Kulob was only incorporated into the Soviet Union in March 1921 and was organized as part of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929. Kulob was one of the largest cities in the republic.

During the Tajikistani Civil War in the early 1990s, the city served as the main base of the Popular Front militias. Danghara, a village in the Kulob area, is the birthplace of Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon. In September 2006, Kulob celebrated its 2700th anniversary.

After Tajikistan's independence in 1991, Kulob was one of the three citiesalongside Dushanbe and Qurghonteppawhere the Russian 201st Motor Rifle Division was deployed. Following a number of scandals with local residents, Russia unexpectedly pulled its troops from Kulob in November 2015, effectively abandoning the base there.

Geography

Climate

Kulob has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa). The average annual temperature is 15.8 °C. The warmest month is July with an average temperature of 28.3 °C and the coolest month is January with an average temperature of 2.2 °C. The average annual precipitation is 590.0 mm and has an average of 103 days with precipitation. The wettest month is March with an average of 133 mm of precipitation and the driest month is August with an average of 1.1 mm of precipitation.

|metric first = y |single line = y | Jan high C =8.2 | Feb high C =10.6 | Mar high C =16.5 | Apr high C =23.2 | May high C =28.8 | Jun high C =35.6 | Jul high C =37.7 | Aug high C =36.6 | Sep high C =31.1 | Oct high C =24.2 | Nov high C =17.3 | Dec high C =11.0 | year high C = | Jan low C =-4.8 | Feb low C =-3.3 | Mar low C =2.0 | Apr low C =7.5 | May low C =11.6 | Jun low C =15.6 | Jul low C =17.3 | Aug low C =15.3 | Sep low C =10.9 | Oct low C =6.1 | Nov low C =1.9 | Dec low C =-1.8 | year low C =

|precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 70.4 |Feb precipitation mm = 90.4 |Mar precipitation mm = 133.1 |Apr precipitation mm = 108.0 |May precipitation mm = 54.9 |Jun precipitation mm = 4.5 |Jul precipitation mm = 2.8 |Aug precipitation mm = 1.1 |Sep precipitation mm = 1.7 |Oct precipitation mm = 25.9 |Nov precipitation mm = 39.2 |Dec precipitation mm = 58.1 |year precipitation mm = |Jan humidity = 75.5 |Feb humidity = 72.2 |Mar humidity = 68.0 |Apr humidity = 63.6 |May humidity = 55.0 |Jun humidity = 39.1 |Jul humidity = 34.0 |Aug humidity = 35.1 |Sep humidity = 38.4 |Oct humidity = 49.4 |Nov humidity = 62.4 |Dec humidity = 71.8 |year humidity = 55.4 |unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm |Jan precipitation days = 12 |Feb precipitation days = 13 |Mar precipitation days = 16 |Apr precipitation days = 15 |May precipitation days = 12 |Jun precipitation days = 4 |Jul precipitation days = 3 |Aug precipitation days = 2 |Sep precipitation days = 2 |Oct precipitation days = 6 |Nov precipitation days = 8 |Dec precipitation days = 10 |source 1 = WMO |source 2 =(humidity){{cite web | url = http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=605178&cityname=Kulob-Tajikistan | title = The Climate of Kulob | publisher = Weatherbase | access-date =2 August 2014}}

Subdivisions

Before ca. 2018, Kulob was the seat of Kulob District, which covered Kulob's outlying rural areas. The city of Kulob covers Kulob proper and four jamoats. These are as follows:

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JamoatPopulation (Jan. 2015)
Dahana29,776
Kulab19,840
Zarbdor23,839
Ziraki28,747
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Notable people

Notes

References

References

  1. "КОНСТИТУЦИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ТАДЖИКИСТАН". Parliament of Tajikistan.
  2. "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020". Statistics office of Tajikistan.
  3. Shane Wallace [https://www.academia.edu/25638818 Greek Culture in Afghanistan and India: Old Evidence and New Discoveries] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-01-12 p.206)
  4. [[Osmund Bopearachchi]], [https://www.academia.edu/22821570 Some Observations on the Chronology of the Early Kushans] {{Webarchive. link. (2021-03-08 , p.48)
  5. Shane Wallace [https://www.academia.edu/25638818 Greek Culture in Afghanistan and India: Old Evidence and New Discoveries] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-01-12 p.211)
  6. "Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum: 54.1569".
  7. Borjian, Habib. (1 November 2013). "Kulab".
  8. Rafiabadi, Hamid Naseem. (2003). "World Religions and Islam: A Critical Study, Part 2". Sarup & Sons.
  9. Abdullaev, Kamoludin. (2018). "Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan". Rowman & Littlefield.
  10. James, Hugh Rees. (1863). "Selections from the Records of the Government of India". Foreign Department Press.
  11. Shams, Biloli. (18 July 2011). "ASIA-Plus".
  12. (18 November 2015). "Tajikistan: Russian Troops Pull Out of Southern City".
  13. "World Weather Information Service - Kulob". World Meteorological Organization.
  14. "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2015". Statistics office of Tajikistan.
  15. [http://untj.org/jambi-project/index.php/maps-statistics/demography Jamoat-level basic indicators] {{Webarchive. link. (2022-01-04 , United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 8 October 2020)

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