Garm, Tajikistan
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Gharm, is a district in the Rasht Valley
Rasht Valley
The Rasht Valley is located in Tajikistan and composes a significant portion of the Region of Republican Subordination, including the six districts of Jirgatol, Rasht, Roghun, Tavildara, Tajikobod and Nurabad. Historically the Rasht Valley has been called Karotegin or Karategin...

 area of central Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

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From the 1920s until 1955 there was a Gharm Oblast
Gharm Oblast
The Gharm Oblast was an oblast in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to 1955. Its capital was Gharm. The population of Gharm were known as Gharmis, a term still used in Tajikistan today.-History:...

 in Tajikistan, which included the territory of the current Gharm Valley. Gharm is also the former name of the Rasht District
Rasht district
Rasht District or Nohiyai Rasht , formerly called Gharm District, is an eastern district in the Region of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan...

 in central Tajikistan.

History

During the 1920s Gharm was a hotbed for the Basmachi, the anti-Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 resistance in Central Asia. In 1929 Basmachi commander Faizal Maksum
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 primarily on the border of the Soviet republic of...

 crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan and briefly captured Gharm, only to later be expelled by Soviet forces.
During the Civil War in Tajikistan from 1992-1997 Gharm was a hot-bed for the opposition forces 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 asserted it had killed three militants on the outskirts of Gharm amid an alleged rise in Islamic militancy in the region.
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