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Kulob Oblast
Kulob Oblast

Kulob Oblast was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan during the Soviet period . In 1992 it was merged with the Qurghonteppa Oblast to create Khatlon Province....
 was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan until 1992.


Kulob (:/?????, for swampy place, rushes), also Kulab or Kulyab , is a city in Kulob district
Kulob district

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, Khatlon Province
Khatlon

Khatlon , sometimes misspelt Khatlan, is the most populous of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces of Tajikistan in Tajikistan....
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east....
. Located 203 km south-east of the capital Dushanbe
Dushanbe

Dushanbe , population 679,400 people , is the Capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means "Monday" in Tajik language, and the name reflects the fact that the city grew on the site of a village that originally was a popular Monday marketplace....
 on the Yakhsu River (a right tributary of Panj
Panj

Panj is a city in southern Tajikistan, situated on the Afghanistan border some 252 km south of the capital Dushanbe on the eponymous Panj River....
), it is one of the largest cities in the country (pop. 82,000 in 2003).

Kulob is the birthplace of the current President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmonov
Emomali Rahmonov

Emomalii Rahmon has served as the head of state of the Republic of Tajikistan since 1992, under the position of President of Tajikistan since 1994....
, Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 media entrepreneur Moses Znaimer
Moses Znaimer

Moses Znaimer is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of MZ Media....
, and popular Tajik
Tajiks

Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of mostly Persian language peoples of Iranian peoples, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, southern Uzbekistan, north west Pakistan and western China....
 singer Manija Dawlatova.

of the Khanate of Bukhara
Khanate of Bukhara

Khanate of Bukhara was a feudal state in Central Asia during the 16th?18th centuries. It received this name when the capital of the Shaybanid state was moved to Bukhara....
 since the 16th century (the Emirate of Bukhara
Emirate of Bukhara

The Emirate of Bukhara was a Central Asian state that existed from 1785 to 1920. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana....
 since the 18th century), the city changed its name from Khatlon to Kulob in 1750.






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Kulob Oblast
Kulob Oblast

Kulob Oblast was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan during the Soviet period . In 1992 it was merged with the Qurghonteppa Oblast to create Khatlon Province....
 was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan until 1992.


Kulob (:/?????, for swampy place, rushes), also Kulab or Kulyab , is a city in Kulob district
Kulob district

Sorry, no overview for this topic
, Khatlon Province
Khatlon

Khatlon , sometimes misspelt Khatlan, is the most populous of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces of Tajikistan in Tajikistan....
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east....
. Located 203 km south-east of the capital Dushanbe
Dushanbe

Dushanbe , population 679,400 people , is the Capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means "Monday" in Tajik language, and the name reflects the fact that the city grew on the site of a village that originally was a popular Monday marketplace....
 on the Yakhsu River (a right tributary of Panj
Panj

Panj is a city in southern Tajikistan, situated on the Afghanistan border some 252 km south of the capital Dushanbe on the eponymous Panj River....
), it is one of the largest cities in the country (pop. 82,000 in 2003).

Kulob is the birthplace of the current President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmonov
Emomali Rahmonov

Emomalii Rahmon has served as the head of state of the Republic of Tajikistan since 1992, under the position of President of Tajikistan since 1994....
, Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 media entrepreneur Moses Znaimer
Moses Znaimer

Moses Znaimer is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of MZ Media....
, and popular Tajik
Tajiks

Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of mostly Persian language peoples of Iranian peoples, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, southern Uzbekistan, north west Pakistan and western China....
 singer Manija Dawlatova.

History

Part of the Khanate of Bukhara
Khanate of Bukhara

Khanate of Bukhara was a feudal state in Central Asia during the 16th?18th centuries. It received this name when the capital of the Shaybanid state was moved to Bukhara....
 since the 16th century (the Emirate of Bukhara
Emirate of Bukhara

The Emirate of Bukhara was a Central Asian state that existed from 1785 to 1920. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana....
 since the 18th century), the city changed its name from Khatlon to Kulob in 1750. In 1921, after the fall of the Bukhara Emirate, Soviet rule was established in Kulob and the city became an industrial center during the Soviet era.

In September 2006 Kulob celebrated its 2700th anniversary. Shabnam Soraya sang a tribute to the city at the celebrations.

Sister cities

Hamedan
Hamedan

Hamedan or Hamadan is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. It had an estimated population of 550,284 in 2005.Hamadan is believed to be among the oldest Iranian cities and one of the oldest in the world....
, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 The main tie between Hamedan
Hamedan

Hamedan or Hamadan is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. It had an estimated population of 550,284 in 2005.Hamadan is believed to be among the oldest Iranian cities and one of the oldest in the world....
 and Kulob is because of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani

Mir Syed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani was a Persians Sufism of the Kubrawiya order, a poet and a prominent Shafi'i muslim scholar . He was born on Monday, 12th Rajab 714 AH in Hamadan and died in 786 AH/1384 in Kunar and was buried in Khatlan....
, a famous sufi scholar and poet, who was born in Hamedan and is buried in Kulob.