Kulob

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Kulob
Kulob Welcoming Gate
Kulob
Location in Tajikistan
Coordinates: 37°54′33″N 69°46′55″E / 37.90917°N 69.78194°E / 37.90917; 69.78194
Country  Tajikistan
Province Khatlon
District Kulob district
Population (2003)
 • Total 82,000

Kulob (Tajik: Кӯлоб / Persian: کولاب‎, meaning swampy place, rushes), also Kulab or Kulyab (Russian: Куляб), is a city in Kulob district, Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. Located 203 km south-east of the capital Dushanbe on the Yakhsu River (a right tributary of Panj), it is one of the largest cities in the country (pop. 150,000 in 2010).

History

Marriage Registry Department in Kulob

Part of the Khanate of Bukhara since the 16th century (the Emirate of Bukhara since the 18th century), the city changed its name from Khatlon to Kulob in 1750.[1] In 1921 Soviet rule was established.[2]

In September 2006 Kulob celebrated its 2700th anniversary.[3][4]

Sister cities

Coordinates: 37°54′33″N 69°46′55″E / 37.90917°N 69.78194°E / 37.90917; 69.78194 The main tie between Hamedan and Kulob is because of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, a famous sufi scholar and poet, who was born in Hamedan and is buried in Kulob.[5] Mir sayyid Ali hamadoni is founder of cashmere wool, First time he decover the goat wool that is soft and is used in clothes[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Name change from Khatlon to Kulob, 1750.
  2. ↑ "UNDP Kulob Area Office". About Us. UNDP Tajikistan. Retrieved 22 August 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Kulyab 2700 years" celebrations.
  4. ↑ Kulyab's 2700th anniversary.
  5. ↑ A depiction of Hamadani's tomb in Kulob on a Tajik banknote.
  6. ↑ [history of kashmer.] BY JEELANI ALLAIE KASHMERE

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