Rumi district
Encyclopedia
Rumi District, formerly Kolkhozobod District or Nohiya-i Kolkhozobod (: Ноҳияи Колхозобод,ناحیۀ کالخازآباد), is a district in Khatlon province, Tajikistan
, located south of the provincial capital Kurgan-Tyube (Qurghonteppa) and Vakhsh district
. It was renamed Rumi district on 23 June 2007 in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the Tajik-Persian poet and philosopher Jaloliddin Rumi and plans were announced to erect a monument to Rumi in the district.
The population in Rumi district is 152,300 (1 January 2008 estimate). The district capital is Kolkhozobod
(or Kolkhozabad in Russian transliteration
).
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....
, located south of the provincial capital Kurgan-Tyube (Qurghonteppa) and Vakhsh district
Vakhsh district
Vakhsh District or Nohiya-i Vakhsh is a district in Khatlon province, Tajikistan. Its capital is Vakhsh....
. It was renamed Rumi district on 23 June 2007 in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the Tajik-Persian poet and philosopher Jaloliddin Rumi and plans were announced to erect a monument to Rumi in the district.
The population in Rumi district is 152,300 (1 January 2008 estimate). The district capital is Kolkhozobod
Kolkhozobod
Kolkhozobod , also Kolkhozabad , is a location in Tajikistan. It is the administrative capital of Rumi District in the south-west of Khatlon Province....
(or Kolkhozabad in Russian transliteration
Romanization of Russian
Romanization of the Russian alphabet is the process of transliterating the Russian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet...
).