Kalanak ( tg, Қалъанак ''Qal'anak'', fa, قلعهنَک ) is a village and
jamoat in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
. It is located in
Rasht District
) ( tg, Ноҳияи Рашт)
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, one of the
. The jamoat has a total population of 10,411 (2015).
[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 14 October 2020 The village is on the northern, right bank of the river
Surkhob
The Vakhsh (Russian and Tajik: Вахш - ''Vaxsh'', fa, وخش), also known as the Surkhob (Сурхоб, سرخاب), in north-central Tajikistan, and the Kyzyl-Suu ( ky, Кызыл-Суу), in Kyrgyzstan, is a Central Asian river, and one of ...
. On the left bank of the river are the western foothills of the
Peter I Range.
History
During the 1920s the area was a hotbed for the
Basmachi, the anti-Soviet resistance in
Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...
.
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, the area was a hotbed for Islamist forces, and October 2010, the Tajik
Interior Ministry asserted it had killed three militants nearby at Gharm amid an alleged rise in Islamic militancy in the region.
References
Populated places in Districts of Republican Subordination
Jamoats of Tajikistan
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