Khudzhand

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Khudzhand (Khujand), Tajikistan Alexandreia Eskhata, Khudzhand/Khodzhent, Leninabad A very ancient city on the Silk Route, it was founded as a forward military base by Alexander III the Great^† in 329 bc and named after him with the Greek eskhatos ‘furthermost’ added to signify that this city was the most distant of all the cities in his empire, more than 30, that were named after him. Before the Arabs arrived in the 7th century the name had become Khudzhand. The city was captured by the Russians in 1866 and given the Russian version of the name, Khodzhent. In 1936 it was renamed Leninabad ‘Lenin's Town’ after Vladimir Lenin^†. It was transferred from Uzbekistan to Tajikistan in 1929. Following a local referendum, it reverted to its pre‐1936 Tajik name in 1991; the former province of Leninabad retained its name, as Leninobod, for a while before becoming Khudzhand and now Sughd.

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