Gorno-badakhshan

//ˌɡɔɹnoʊˈbɑdɑkʃɑn// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An autonomous region of Tajikistan, home to the Pamir mountains and peoples. Capital: Khorugh.

    "Tajikistan has launched an "anti-terror operation" in its restive Gorno-Badakhshan province, which borders Afghanistan and China, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Tajik interior ministry as saying on Wednesday.[…] Dozens of people were killed in clashes between a domestic armed group and government forces in Gorno-Badakhshan in 2012."

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"Tajikistan has launched an "anti-terror operation" in its restive Gorno-Badakhshan province, which borders Afghanistan and China, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Tajik interior ministry as saying on Wednesday.[…] Dozens of people were killed in clashes between a domestic armed group and government forces in Gorno-Badakhshan in 2012."

Etymology

From Russian Горно-Бадахша́н (Gorno-Badaxšán, literally “Mountainous Badakhshan”).https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/gbao.htm

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