Yagnob Valley - nature, history, and chances of a mountain community development in Tajikistan

The Yagnob Valley represents in its upper part an example of an isolated peripheral area very typical for the highlands of Asia and especially for Tajikistan, where each mountain valley has its own unique ethnic and cultural style of life and land use structure, highly adapted to natural conditions. The natural isolation of the Yagnob Valley was conducive to the preservation in its upper part of an unique ethnic group - the Yagnobis whose language is very similar to the Ancient Sogdian language attributed to the East-Iranian language group. A strict dependence of land use type on natural..