Our next country, Tajikistan is immediately a very different place to Uzbekistan. Over millennia, this region has been subject to repeated invasions, from Persians in 600BC, through Alexander ‘the Great’ (not to this country), Greco-Bactrians, Kushans, Sassanids, Hephthalites, Gokturks, Samanids, Ghengis Khan, then Tamir (who we met in a previous episode), before the Russians deemed … Continue reading Tajikistan →