Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means "Monday" in the Tajik language. It was so named because it grew from a village that originally had a popular market on Mondays.
The monument in front of the Agrarian University - A. Rudaki (858 - ca. 941) - was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Only a small percentage of his extensive poetry has survived.
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