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Khujanda

خجنده

Khujanda beyond the river on the Sayhun; Salm ibn Ziyad's army, A'sha Hamdan among them, was defeated there.

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Khujanda is a town beyond the river, on the Syr Darya. Salm ibn Ziyad, while he was in Sughd, sent an army to it with al-A'sha of Hamadan in it, and the army was routed there, according to al-Baladhuri. 1

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Abdullo Rakhimbayev

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Abdullo Rakhimbayev

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  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abdullo Rakhimbayev

Soviet politician of an Uzbek family from Khujand (1896–1938): he chaired the Central Executive Committee of the Turkestan ASSR (1920–1922), served as responsible secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan (1923–1925), and chaired the Council of People's Commissars of the Tajik SSR (1933–1937). Arrested in 1937, he was shot in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison on 7 May 1938 and rehabilitated in 1956.