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Capitals in Asia

Dushanbe (Душанбе), population 582,400 ( 1991), is the capital of Tajikistan.

1 History

The city served as the headquarters for Ibrahim Bek , a Tajik leader who fought the Bolsheviks. From 1929, when the city became the capital of the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic, to 1961, it was known as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin. A university and the Tajik Academy of Sciences are in the city.

2 Economy

Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby. A leading cotton textile center, Dushanbe also produces silk, machinery, electrical appliances, clothing, leatherLeather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals. Leather was a very important clothing material, and its other uses were legion. Together with wood, leather formed the basis of much ancient technology. Leather with t goods, tractor parts, and foodstuffs.


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