Qubodiyon

Qubodiyon

Қубодиён
Qubodiyon Қубодиён
	Qubodiyon Location in Tajikistan Qubodiyon Qubodiyon (West and Central Asia) Qubodiyon Qubodiyon (South Asia) Qubodiyon Qubodiyon (Tokharistan)
	Coordinates: 37°24′27″N 68°11′06″E / 37.40750°N 68.18500°E
Country	Tajikistan
Region	Khatlon
District	Qubodiyon District

Qubodiyon, also Qubadiyan, ancient Kobadiyan (Template:Lang-tg, Template:Lang-fa Qobādiyān) is a town in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. It is the capital of Qubodiyon District. The population of the town is 12,200 (January 2020 estimate).^[1]

Nasir Khusraw, a Persian poet,^[2]^[3] philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, traveler and one of the greatest writers in Persian literature was born in the village in 1004 CE.

The Oxus Treasure was found near Kobadiyan.^[4]

Kabadiyan ambassador to the Chinese court of Emperor Yuan of Liang in his capital Jingzhou in 516–520 CE, with explanatory text. Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, 11th century Song copy. The embassador accompanied the Hephthalites to China.

References

^ "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
^ Milaha, V. Christides, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. VII, ed. C.E. Bosworth, E. Van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs and CH. PELLAT, (Brill, 1991), 43.
^ Nasir-i Khusraw, Azim Nanji, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. VII, 1006.
^ "East of Termez, on the Kafirnigan River, on the territory of Tajikistan, lies the small town of Kobadiyan, near which was found in the late 1870s one of the most famous treasures of all time, the so - called treasure of Oxus." in Knobloch, Edgar. Monuments of Central Asia: A Guide to the Archaeology, Art and Architecture of Turkestan. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-86064-590-7.

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