Temurmalik District or Nohiya-i Temurmalik (Tajik: Ноҳияи Темурмалик) is a district in Khatlon province of Tajikistan, located south of the Vakhsh Range along the middle course of Kyzylsu River.[1] Population 57,700 (2008 est.).[2] Before 1957 called Qizil-Mazor District (Tajik: Ноҳияи Қизил Мазор) or Kzyl-Mazar District (Russian: Кзыл-Мазарский район), then renamed Sovetskiy District (Russian: Советский район), and in 2004 given its present name Temurmalik District.[3][4] The new name honors a medieval military hero, Temurmalik (also Timur-Malik), who in 1220 led the people of Khujand in their struggle against the Mongol occupation.[5]
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