Tajikistan (Tajik: Тоҷикистон,), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an area of 143,100 km2
(55,300 sq mi) and an estimated population of 9,537,645 people. It is
bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north and China
to the east. The traditional
homelands of the Tajik people include present-day Tajikistan as well as parts
of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The territory that now
constitutes Tajikistan was previously home to several ancient cultures,
including the city of Sarazm of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of
different faiths and cultures, including the Oxus Valley Civilisation, Andronovo Culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Vedic religion, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam. The area has been ruled by numerous
empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire and the Mongol Empire. After being ruled by the Timurid dynasty and the Khanate of Bukhara, the Timurid Renaissance
flourished. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's modern
borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous
republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic
in 1929.
On 9 September 1991,
Tajikistan became an independent sovereign nation when the Soviet Union disintegrated. A civil war was fought
almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997. Since the end
of the war, newly established political stability and foreign aid have allowed
the country's economy to grow. Like all other Central Asian neighbouring
states, the country, led by President Emomali Rahmon since 1994. Tajikistan means the
"Land of the Tajiks". The suffix "-stan" is Persian for "place of" or "country"
and Tajik is, most likely, the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh
century A.D.) tribe. Tajikistan appeared as Tadjikistan or Tadzhikistan in
English prior to 1991. This is due to a transliteration from the Russian: "Таджикистан". In
Russian, there is no single letter j to represent the phoneme /ʤ/, and
therefore дж, or dzh, is used. Tadzhikistan is the most common alternate
spelling and is widely used in English literature derived from Russian sources.
"Tadjikistan" is the spelling in French and can occasionally be found
in English language texts.
The first stamps of
Tajikistan were issued on 20 May 1992. Before then, Tajikistan used stamps of
the Soviet Union. In 1992 and 1993 the Tajikistan Post Office resorted to overprinting stamps of the Soviet Union as supplies of the new
Tajik stamps ran low. Tajikistan is a member of the Universal Postal Union and
has issued notices through the U.P.U. warning of bogus stamps on popular
thematic subjects issued in their name.
The cover posted on August 14,2015 and i received on September 29, 2015.
The covers posted on December 15, 2016 And I received in my hands on January 16, 2017.
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