Tajikistan
Syllabification: (Ta·jik·i·stan)
Pronunciation: /təˈjēkəˌstan, tä-, -ˈjikə, -ˌstän/
(also Tadzhikistan)
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The region was conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century and absorbed into the Russian empire during the 1880s and 1890s. From 1929, Tajikistan formed a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union; it became an independent republic within the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991