Gharm is a city and jamoat in the Rasht Valley area of central Tajikistan . The population of the town is 9,800 (January 2020 estimate).
6-711: From the 1920s until 1955, there was a Gharm Oblast in Tajikistan, which included the territory of the current Gharm Valley. Gharm is also the former name of the Rasht District in central Tajikistan. During the 1920s Gharm was a hotbed for the Basmachi , the anti- Soviet resistance in Central Asia . In 1929 Basmachi commander Faizal Maksum crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan and briefly captured Gharm, only to later be expelled by Soviet forces. During
12-607: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gharm Oblast The Gharm Oblast was an oblast in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to 1955. Its capital was Gharm . The population of Gharm were known as Gharmis , a term still used in Tajikistan today. In the 1920s, during the reorganization of borders in Central Asia , a Gharm oblast
18-588: The Civil War in Tajikistan from 1992 to 1997, Gharm was a hotbed for the opposition force, and the town was controlled by the opposition during the later part of the civil war in Tajikistan. In October 2010, the Tajik Interior Ministry asserted it had killed three militants on the outskirts of Gharm amid an alleged rise in Islamic militancy in the region. This Tajikistan location article
24-543: The Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast and the Regions under Republican Subordination Oblast . The Gharmis continued to have a distinct clan identity in Tajikistan. During the Civil War in Tajikistan from 1992-1997 many Gharmis were targeted for massacres. This Soviet Union –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Tajikistan location article
30-567: The city Gharm, only to later be expelled by Soviet forces. The 1939 Soviet Census record a population of 183,100 in the Gharm Oblast. During the 1950s much of the population of Gharm was forcibly relocated by the government to western Tajikistan (Vakhsh valley). This population of people is known today as the Gharmis . In 1955 the Garm oblast was abolished and the land was redistributed to
36-653: Was created out of the old Qarategin and Darvaz , districts of the Emirate of Bukhara . The Gharm Oblast consisted of much of the Qarategin Valley , as well as the Kalai-Khumb District . During the 1920s Gharm was a hotbed for the Basmachi , the anti- Soviet resistance in Central Asia. In 1929 Basmachi commander Faizal Maksum crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan and briefly captured
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