Mountain Scenes
These scenes are from the mountains of Tajikistan. These mountains, apart from being breathtakingly beautiful, are also the reason why the Tajik people have survived up to the present day. While once prevalent throughout southern Central Asia, successive waves of invaders, particularly Turkic people from the east, resulted in disaster for the Tajiks. Overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of outsiders, the Tajiks were either killed, forcibly assimilated, or pushed out of much of their ancestral lands. Only in the highest mountains of what is now Tajikistan and northeastern Afghanistan did the Tajik people manage to remain a majority and preserve their ancient language and culture. These images are from http://students.sabanciuniv.edu/~alisher/photos/.
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