Kulob also Kulab or Kulyab , is a city in Kulob district

Kulob district

Kulob District or Nohiya-i Kulob is a district in Khatlon province, Tajikistan. Its capital is Kulob. The city was founded in 691 BC.In 10 September 2006 Kulob city celebrated its 2700th anniversary. Thousands participated in this time, even foreigners....

, Khatlon Province

Khatlon

Khatlon Province , sometimes misspelt Khatlan, one of the three provinces of Tajikistan and is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor Range in the north and the Panj River in the south and borders on...

, Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

. Located 203 km south-east of the capital Dushanbe

Dushanbe

-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...

 on the Yakhsu River (a right tributary of Panj

Panj

Panj is a city in southern Tajikistan which is situated on the Afghan border, some south of the capital Dushanbe. It is located along the banks of the Panj River, from which it derives its name....

), it is one of the largest cities in the country (pop. 100,000 in 2006).

Kulob is the birthplace of the current President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 media entrepreneur Moses Znaimer

Moses Znaimer

Moses Znaimer, M.A., O.Ont is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.-Early life and career:...

, and popular Tajik singers Manija Davlatova and Shabnam Soraya

Shabnam Surayyo

Shabnam Surayyo , born on October 14, 1981 in Kulyab, Tajikstan is a popular Tajik singer....

.

History

Part of the Khanate of Bukhara

Khanate of Bukhara

Khanate of Bukhara was a significant state in Central Asia from the second quarter of 16th century to the late–18th century. Bukhara became the capital of the short-lived Shaybanid empire during the reign of Ubaydallah Khan . The khanate reached its greatest extent and influence under its...

 since the 16th century (the Emirate of Bukhara

Emirate of Bukhara

The Emirate of Bukhara was a Central Asian state that existed from 1785 to 1920. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana. Its core territory was the land along the lower Zarafshan River, and its urban centres were the ancient cities of...

 since the 18th century), the city changed its name from Khatlon to Kulob in 1750. In 1921, after the fall of the Bukhara Emirate, Soviet rule was established in Kulob and the city became an industrial center during the Soviet era.

In September 2006 Kulob celebrated its 2700th anniversary. Shabnam Soraya sang a tribute to the city at the celebrations.
Kay-Khotloni last king of the Khotlon was on military servis of Amir Timyr during Afghanistan
companies.

Sister cities

Hamedan, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 Nishapur

Nishapur

Nishapur or Nishabur , is a city in the Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Binalud Mountains, near the regional capital of Mashhad...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

The main tie between Hamedan and Kulob is because of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani

Mir Syed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani was a Persian Sūfī of the Kubrāwī order, a poet and a prominent Muslim scholar. He was born on Monday, 12th Rajab 714 AH in Hamadan and died in 786 AH in Kunar and was buried in Khatlan...

, a famous sufi scholar and poet, who was born in Hamedan and is buried in Kulob.