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A view of Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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Coat of Arms of Dushanbe
Coat of arms

Dushanbe (Tajik: Душанбе, Persian: دوشنبه) 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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    Modern day bazaar in Dushanbe

  • Kushanmap

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  • Kara-Khanid Khanate

    Kara-Khanid Khanate

  • Central Asia. From Du Halde, D'Anville, Jelenieff &c &c., but imperfect and inaccurate authorities. Hooker sc. (Published by John Conrad & Co., Philadelphia. 1804) (cropped on Central Asia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

    Map of Central Asia from Philadelphia in 1804 showing the city of Shuman, a former name of Dushanbe

  • Dushanabe WWIImonument

    Dushanbe WWII monument

  • RIAN archive 699865 Dushanbe riots, February 1990

    February 1990 Riots in Dushanbe

  • Rustam Emomali

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  • Dushambe 68.77989E 38.58624N

    Dushanbe, in the Gissar Valley

  • USGS Khait landslide

    Khait earthquake

  • Бинои Иттифоқи нависандагон

    Snow on the Tajik Writer's Union building

  • Площади и здания 03

    Plants and trees on a Dushanbe street

  • Административное деление Душанбе

    Shah Mansur

  • The Dushanbe Landscape From the Dushanbe Hyatt Hotel (4746709788)

    Landscape of Dushanbe showing varied land uses in the city

  • Madrasseh at Hisor - panoramio

    Madrassa just west of Dushanbe

  • Donishgohi davlatii omuzgorii Tojikiston ba nomi K Juraev

    Dushanbe State Pedagogical Institute, the first university in Dushanbe

  • Tajik National University (Main Building)

    Tajik National University

  • Duschanbe Bahnhof

    Dushanbe Railway Station

  • Троллейбус (шаҳри Душанбе)

    Trolleybuses in Dushanbe

  • Tea House Rohat, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 2

    Combination of neoclassical decoration and a minimalist structure from the late 1950s

  • Hammond Slides Dushanbe 08

    Mausoleum of Sadriddin Ayni

  • Big Hospital

    Istiqlol Medical Complex in Dushanbe

  • Sanatorium Khodjaobigarm 01

    Khoja Obi Garm sanatorium

  • Офис Амонатбанка

    Bank in Dushanbe

  • Dushanbe, Tajikistan - panoramio (102)

    Coal plant in Dushanbe

  • Dushanbe 2010 01 Hotel Tajikistan

    Hotel Tajikistan in Dushanbe

  • Народная мелодия в исполнении Насибы Омонбоевой и Камолиддина Хамдамова

    Shashmaqam in the Dushanbe Concert Hall

  • Mirsaid-mirshakar

    Mirsaid Mirshakar

  • Ayni Opera Theatre, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

    Ayni Opera theater

  • Кинотеатри Ватан

    Movie theater in Dushanbe

  • Central Republican Stadium in Dushanbe

    Pamir Stadium in Dushanbe

  • شماره یکم بخارای شریف

    The front page of the first issue of Bukhara Sharif newspaper

  • Boulder Dushanbe table

    Interior of the Boulder Dushanbe teahouse

  • Dmitry Medvedev 28 August 2008-5

    2008 Shanghai Coordination Council meeting

  • Bishkent culture

    Map of the Bishkent culture, based on a map printed at page 69 in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, which was edited by J. P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams, and published by Taylor & Francis in 1997.

  • Vakhsh culture

    Map of the Vakhsh culture, based on a map printed at page 617 in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, which was edited by J. P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams, and published by Taylor & Francis in 1997.

  • National Museum of Tajikistan (8)

    National Museum of Tajikistan

  • Puppet theatre in Dushanbe

    Puppet Theater

  • National Museum of Antiquities 20141007 Tajikistan 1427 crop Dushanbe (16070647428)

    National Museum of Antiquities

  • Rudaki Avenue sidewalk, Dushanbe 02

    Rudaki Avenue

  • Flagshtoktj

    Dushanbe flagpole

  • Dushanbe 070 (26103528836)

    Mosque in Dushanbe

  • Свято-Никольский собор (Душанбе) 3

    Cathedral in Dushanbe

  • Dushanbe Synagogue Entrance

    Synagogue in Dushanbe

  • Dushanbe Airport
  • Dushanbe Airport (DYU)
  • Dushanbe airport 161 (26129451585)
  • Ustod Rudaki Park and Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe - panoramio

    Rudaki Park with the Palace of the Nation in the background.

  • Лошадь и мельница 01

    Folk architecture area of the botanical gardens

  • Botanical gardens 2 - panoramio

    Dushanbe botanical gardens

  • Российские военнослужащие приняли участие в параде в Таджикистане 02

    A parade in Victory Park

  • World war 2 memorial, victory park (2) - panoramio

    World War 2 memorial in Victory Park

  • Монументальный ансамбль

    Statue of Rudaki

  • Умари Хайём (4)

    Statue of Omar Khayyam

  • Ismail Samani

    Statue of Ismail Samani

  • Dushanbe Lenin

    Statue of Lenin

  • Монумент Авицене

    Statue of Avicenna

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