Tajikistan reanimates Aryan civilization.

United Press International | January 30, 2004 | Copyright

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Jan 30, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX)

The Aryan civilization is in the limelight in Tajikistan. The Tajiks are direct descendants of the famous prehistoric people, according to President Emomali Rakhmonov.

The term "Aryan," meaning "noble" in Sanskrit, was formerly used to mark the Indo-European race or language family or its Indo-Iranian subgroup, according to the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Aryans, nomadic tribes, migrated from southern Russia and Turkestan, a vast region including the central part of Xinjiang province ...

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