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Spitamen District (russian: Спитаменский район; tg, Ноҳияи Спитамен) is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
in north-central
Sughd,
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
, stretching across the province's narrow part from the border with
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...
to the border with
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...
. Population 141,600 (2020 est.).
[ Formerly called Nau District (russian: Науский район) or Nov District ( tg, Nohiya-i Nov, Ноҳияи Нов; fa, ناحیۀ ناو), it was renamed Spitamen district by a resolution of parliament in November 2003. The district capital is Navkat, located south-west of ]Khujand
Khujand ( tg, Хуҷанд, Khujand; Uzbek: Хўжанд, romanized: Хo'jand; fa, خجند, Khojand), sometimes spelled Khodjent and known as Leninabad (russian: Ленинабад, Leninabad; tg, Ленинобод, Leninobod; fa, لنی ...
.
The district is named after Spitamen who led the Sogdians :''This category lists articles related to historical Iranian peoples''
Historical
Peoples
Iranian
Iranian
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples ...
in a revolt against the forces of Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...
in 329-328 BCE.
Administrative divisions
The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into one town and six jamoats. They are as follows:[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 3 October 2020Spitamen: A land that remembers the history of the nation…
in Tajik
References
Districts of Tajikistan
Sughd Region
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