Gharm (, tr. Gharm; , tr. Garm; , tr. Gharm) is a city and jamoat in the Rasht Valley area of central

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

. The population of the town is 9,800 (January 2020 estimate). From the 1920s until 1955 there was a

Gharm Oblast The Gharm Oblast (russian: Гармская область; tg, Вилояти Ғарм, translit=Viloyati Ğarm/Vilojati Ƣarm; fa, ولایت غرم, ''Velâyate Qarm'') was an oblast in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union f ...

in Tajikistan, which included the territory of the current Gharm Valley. Gharm is also the former name of the

Rasht District ) ( tg, Ноҳияи Рашт) , image_map = Location of Rasht District in Tajikistan.png , mapsize = , map_caption = Location of the district in Tajikistan , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision ...

in central Tajikistan.

History

During the 1920s Gharm was a hotbed for the Basmachi, the anti-

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

resistance in Central Asia. In 1929 Basmachi commander

Faizal Maksum Faizal Maksum was one of the leaders of an anti-Soviet group known as the Basmachi and led an organized resistance against the Soviet military occupation of Central Asia in the 1920s. Maksum was loyal to the ousted Emir of Bukhara and operated pri ...

crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan and briefly captured Gharm, only to later be expelled by Soviet forces. Garm-stadium

During the

Civil War in Tajikistan The Tajikistani Civil War ( tg, Ҷанги шаҳрвандии Тоҷикистон, translit=Jangi shahrvandiyi Tojikiston / Çangi shahrvandiji Toçikiston; russian: Гражданская война в Таджикистане), also known ...

from 1992 to 1997, Gharm was a hotbed for the opposition force, and the town was controlled by the opposition during the later part of the civil war in Tajikistan. In October 2010, the Tajik

Interior Ministry An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

asserted it had killed three militants on the outskirts of Gharm amid an alleged rise in Islamic militancy in the region.

Climate

References

Populated places in Districts of Republican Subordination {{Tajikistan-geo-stub