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	Khujand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khujand (Tajik Хуҷанд or خجند, also transliterated as Khudzhand, Russian: Худжанд, formerly Khodjend or Khodzhent until 1939 and Leninabad until 1992), is the second largest city of Tajikistan.
		It is situated on the Syr Darya River at the mouth of the Fergana Valley.
		Khujand was ruined by the Arabs in the eighth century and strongly resisted the Mongol hordes five centuries later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khujand (359 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Khujand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Khujand (Хужант also transliterated as Khojand, Khudjand, Khudzhand, and Khodjend), formerly Leninabad is a city on the Syr-Darya at the mouth of the Fergana Valley, and also gives its name to the northernmost region of the Republic of Tajikistan.
		It was captured by the Arabs in the 8th century, by Genghis Khan's forces in the 13th century, and by the Russians in 1866.
		April 10-11, 1993, Khujand, Tajikistan), was a devout member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and twice (1982-85, 1991-92) head of a Tajik Communist government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Khujand (1020 words)

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		With capital, the city Dushanbe, Khujand is connected by a mountain highway, the railway, also airline.
		Khujand to be between mountains Mugoltau, Kuraminskim a ridge and the Turkestani ridge.
		In the north of Khujand are located Kuraminsky a ridge and hills Mugoltau.
	www.schoolsonline.org /khujand/en/Where_we_live.htm (281 words)

	CA&CC Press® AB
		Even within the Khujand area, however, there is not an "Abdullojanov hegemony." In fact, numerous groups, some of them centered around traditional, powerful extended families, have spent much time and energy in the past fighting each other for greater control of the Tajik pie.
		Ten people were arrested in the Khujand area on May 3 in connection with the assassination attempt, of whom several were said to be relatives of prisoners who died in the mid-April assault on Khujand Prison.
		The most frequently mentioned connection among analysts is to the organizers of rallies which took place in Khujand (and Ura-Teppe) in May 1996, with the support of the (Leninabad branch) of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan, and to related prison riots in Khujand which were violently suppressed by the Tajik government in mid-April (1997).
	www.ca-c.org /dataeng/st_06_martin.shtml (6113 words)

	Khujand, Tajikistan, Pictures
		Khujand, formerly Leninabad, city in northern Tajikistan, about 340 km (about 205 mi) north of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, and about 150 km (about 90 mi) southeast of Toshkent, Uzbekistan.
		Khujand lies in the southwestern part of the fertile Fergana Valley and is partly isolated from the rest of Tajikistan by high mountain ranges.
		Khujand lies along the banks of the Syr Darya River as it flows westward into Uzbekistan and then northwest through Kazakhstan toward the Aral Sea.
	www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Tajikistan/Khujand_formerly_Leninabad_city.html (228 words)

	Informat.io on Khujand
		Khujand (Tajik Хуҷанд or خجند, also transliterated as Khudzhand, Russian Худжанд, formerly Khodjend until 1939 and Leninabad until 1992), is the second city of Tajikistan.
		There are a group of historians who claim that Alexander of Macedon founded a Greek settlement in the place of today's Khujand in 329 BC called the city of Alexandria Eschate or "Alexandria The Furthest" - modern Khujand.
		It would have formed a bastion for the Greek settlers against the Scythian tribes to the north of the Syr Darya, which the Greeks called the Jaxartes River.
	www.informat.io /?title=Khujand (327 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Khujand
		One IRP member in Khujand, Mohiniso Ochilova, likened the officials actions to arrests and scare tactics employed against the banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
		The fire in the Maria Magdalena church in the town of Khujand broke out in the early morning and destroyed the wooden building dating back from the 1930s, the regional police said...
		In Tajikistan, the authorities arrested a group of HT activists in Khujand in February.
	news.surfwax.com /worldcities/files/Khujand_Tajikistan.html (787 words)

	Tajikistan -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l
		In November 2003, a community group in the northern city of Khujand was officially welcomed on board as the newest Central Asian affiliate.
		The first housing project that Habitat for Humanity undertook was in response to the needs of resettling the families forced away from their homes during the civil war.
		Khujand already has a considerable community of Habitat homeowners and new homes are under construction on what has come to be called “Habitat Street.” In addition to constructing new houses, HFH Tajikistan also works on building shells left abandoned since Soviet times.
	www.habitat.org /intl/eca/235.aspx (534 words)

	Khujand
		The city of Khujand [formerly Leninabad] is the administrative center of Viloyati Leninobod [Leninabad oblast].
		An important crossroads in the fertile Ferghana Valley, Khujand is a breeding-ground for militants of the banned fundamentalist Hizbi Tahrir movement.
		Of the more than 100 Hizbi Tahrir members arrested since the beginning of 2001, over half were detained in Khujand, a city with a population of 350,000.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/khujand.htm (272 words)

	Official web site of Pamir-Travel company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Khujand (or Xojand), as the second largest city in Tajikistan and the largest industrial and cultural center of northern Tajikistan, is situated on the beautiful lands stretching along the Sir-Darya river at the height of more than 300 meters above sea level.
		Khujand is home to one of ancient civilizations in Central Asia and beside Samarkand and Boukhara is one of the major culture centers of Tajik people.
		As the golden entrance to Ferghana Valley, Khujand enjoyed prosperity and its riches spawned palaces, grand mosques and a citadel before the Mongol’s steamrollered the city into oblivion in the early 13th century.
	www.travel-pamir.com /tajikistan/kojand.html (1236 words)

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		KHUJAND, 8 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Galina Akhmerova is one of thousands of elderly ethnic Russians living in northern Tajikistan.
		According to the funeral bureau in Khujand, dozens of elderly ethnic Russians, who don't have any family or relatives or are homeless, die in Khujand every year.
		In 2003, out of 30 homeless buried by the Khujand funeral bureau, 24 were from the Russian-speaking ethnic groups.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=44579&SelectRegion=Central_Asia (706 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Tajikistan: Protecting mothers' lives
		Earlier this month, a team of monitors found that the sessions had made a big difference in the hospital maternity wards here in Khujand, the cultural and industrial capital of northern Tajikistan.
		Straddling the Syr Darya river and flanked by craggy mountain ranges, Khujand has a long and storied history as the farthest outpost established by Alexander the Great's armies and a stop on Asia's famed Silk Road.
		The five monitors -- four health department trainers and the Mercy Corps program coordinator -- found that trained practitioners in Khujand had improved their communication and diagnostic skills, adopted international sterilization protocols and learned how to reduce trauma and maternal bleeding during birth.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6NA5WR?OpenDocument (780 words)

	Internews.org About Internews
		Human rights groups and media advocacy organizations have denounced the action by the military commissariat in Khujand, the main urban center in northern Tajikistan.
		The program also featured Fazliddin Domonov, a top military official in Khujand, who denied that so-called press-gangs were used to round up draft-eligible youths in and around the city.
		Media rights advocates contend that Khujand military officials have no right to conscript the trio, who are all originally from the Sughd region, outside the city’s jurisdiction.
	www.internews.org /articles/2002/20021105_eurasianet_tajik.htm (635 words)

	CRORA : RESUME DES PUBLICATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Bat lyssaviruses Aravan and Khujand were isolated in southern Kyrgyzstan in 1991 and in northern Tajikistan in 2001, respectively.
		The results suggested that each virus should be considered as a newly recognized genotype according to the current approaches for genotype definition (amount of nucleotide identity of the N gene and bootstrap support of joining to certain phylogenetic groups).
		Use of different phylogenetic methods and comparison of different parts of the genomes generally suggested that Khujand virus was mainly related to genotype 6, while Aravan virus, on the one hand, was related to Khujand virus, and, on the other hand, demonstrated moderate similarity to genotypes 4, 5 and 6.
	www.pasteur.fr /recherche/banques/CRORA/res10/re5808.htm (223 words)

	State Aviation Company of Republic of Tajikistan "Tochikiston"
		The Ancient city of Khujand is on the "Great Silk Way" and has old economic and politic relations with main cities in Russia and Central Asia.
		Due to its favourable geographical position, the Khujand airport is an important tourist centre with hot medicinal springs, enormous fruit plantations, lakes and picturesque mountains.
		Khujand - Sharjah Khujand - Mashad - Dubai
	www.sovereign-publications.com /tochikiston.htm (584 words)

	Release - CEELI Awards Grants to Rights Advocacy NGOs
		Funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the CRAN is a group of approximately 30 lawyers and other defenders of the public interest from the Ferghana Valley region of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
		This campaign follows on activities begun in October 2003, and is part of a long term strategy to raise consumer awareness, empower consumers to demand their rights, and ensure a free, competitive and effective economy.
		Zamindor by the NGO Saodat in Khujand, Tajikistan.
	www.abanet.org /ceeli/press_releases/09.21.04_cran_grants.html (706 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		Yet committee official Madhakim Pustiev admitted: "The activity of the church had annoyed Muslims and some of them asked for the Khujand branch of the church to be closed." Preacher Alisher Haidarov said the church is still open at the moment.
		Frank Johansen, the head of the OSCE office in northern Tajikistan, reported that at a press conference at the beginning of May the Khujand city administration announced the closure of several religious associations.
		The trial is now underway in Khujand of members of a radical Islamic group Bayat (an Arabic word meaning oath) who are accused of his murder (see F18News 27 May 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=330).
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=559 (987 words)

	TAJIKISTAN -- LENINABAD: CRACKDOWN IN THE NORTH
		Khujand, the capital of Leninabad oblast, was traditionally the source of communist party elites.
		Khujand has a population of 200,000 and is the second largest city after Dushanbe.
		He was then transferred to the Khujand City Hospital, where he "worked straight through until the morning, barely able to keep up with the load." Two eyewitnesses reported that on April 16 they saw three transport lorries filled with bodies leaving the prison.
	www.hrw.org /reports98/tajikistan (14693 words)

	Global Village Program - Habitat for Humanity Int'l
		Khujand, located on an ancient caravan route from China to the Mediterranean, was a famous town marking the farthest expansion of Alexander the Great.
		Khujand is the wealthiest region of Tajik with 1/3 of the GNP coming from that area.
		The Khujand organization “Habitat for Humanity-Khujand” was affiliated in 2004 and operates in partnership with Shelter for Life International.
	www.habitat.org /cd/gv/trip_desc.aspx?type=1&code=gv6486 (933 words)

	BBC News \| Despatches \| Tajik air crash bodies returned
		There have been scenes of mass mourning in Khujand in North Tajikistan where people turned out in their thousands to receive the bodies of those killed in the Tajik airways flight that crashed in the United Arab Emirates.
		All the passengers onboard the Sharjah flight were from Khujand and Khujand turned out in force to receive its dead.
		He too is a Khujand man. This is the second city of Tajikistan but a wall of mountains divides it from the rest of the country and Khujand has its own distinct character and feel.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/despatches/40703.stm (303 words)

	Survey for Bat Lyssaviruses, Thailand \| CDC EID
		In this study, neutralization titers to new putative genotypes, namely, Irkut, Khujand, and Aravan viruses, and of much lesser degree to ABLV but not to RABV, were evident.
		Khujand virus is related to genotype 6, while Aravan virus is related to Khujand virus, with moderate similarity to genotypes 4, 5, and 6 (2,4).
		Bat lyssaviruses (Aravan and Khujand) from Central Asia: phylogenetic relationships according to N, P and G gene sequences.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol11no02/04-0691.htm (2321 words)

	CEELI - Kathleen Smith
		Talk to anyone who has been to Khujand and they will tell you that they were surprised and struck by its unexpected charm and beauty.
		There is a clearly defined city centre, a vibrant marketplace, and historical monuments depicting a colorful history of more than 2,500 years, including the remnants of a fortress built by Alexander the Great.
		Khujand sits in Sughd Oblast, which is part of the Ferghana Valley, a region that has been a centre of conflict and instability ever since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1992.
	www.abanet.org /ceeli/program/liaisons/kathleen_smith.html (1102 words)

	Khujand Packaging [EBRD - Project Summary Document]
		KP was registered in late 1996 as a joint-stock company in Tajikistan by the Khujand Canning Factory, Oeko-Pack from Austria and San-Bravo from the Czech Republic.
		Khujand Canning Factory is a Tajik packaging enterprise which employs 700 people and has been in existence since 1936.
		The proposed project is for the establishment of a joint venture in Khujand (the centre of the Leninabad Region of Tajikistan), to be operated by a private foreign entity, which will produce and package fruit juices and wine made from local inputs.
	www.ebrd.com /projects/psd/psd1997/4024.htm (585 words)

	Pragma Corporation - News
		Established in 1999, Vavilon is located in Khujand, Tajikistan, and since 2002, freight forwarding has been their core business.
		The Khujand EDC began working with Vavilon in May 2003 and completed the Strategic Action Plan in November 2003.
		In January 2004, Khujand EDC Relationship Manager (RM) Kosimbek Abdurahimov collected the financial data for 2003 to compare with the most recent Key Monitoring Ratios.
	www.pragmacorp.com /news4-5b.htm (490 words)

	The Coins of the Time of Kamal Khujandi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Even though Kamal spent the better part of his life in Tabriz, he is usually identified with the city of his birth, Khujand.
		It is also not clear whether the Khujand mint was operational at that time or not.
		Two of the three were found in the Urateppe region (the Qahqaha Fort in the village of Shahristan) and the third was found in Khujand.
	www.iles.umn.edu /faculty/bashiri/coins%20folder/coins.html (1557 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Russian Military Base in Khujand: Ambition or Necessity?
		The base, to be located in Khujand, would augment the military network Russia already enjoys in Tajikistan in the garrisons of the Motorised Cavalry Division 201 in Dushanbe, Kurgan-Tyube and Kulob.
		So far, the Khujand (formerly Leninabad) region, in the west of the Fergana Valley, has been free of a Russian military presence, not including a small military contingent during the Soviet period.
		The resolution of the Khujand base issue will help untangle the blurred lines of responsibility — and accountability — that for years have entwined Tajikistan and Russia.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav061200.shtml (970 words)

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