Piskon

Piskon
Piskon is located in Tajikistan
Piskon
Piskon
Location in Tajikistan
Coordinates: 39°10′37″N 69°9′46″E / 39.17694°N 69.16278°E / 39.17694; 69.16278
Country Tajikistan
RegionSughd Region
DistrictAyni District
Elevation
2,609 m (8,560 ft)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total
68
Official languages

Piskon (Tajik: Пискон, Russian: Паскан Paskan, Yaghnobi: Пискон, پسکان) is a village in Sughd Region, northwestern Tajikistan. It is part of the jamoat Anzob in the Ayni District.[1] Its population was 68 in 2007.[2]

The village is connected by a gravel road and like most vagnobi villages consists of a cluster of dwelling constructed with dry stone walls and flat roofs. There is some terracing in the village itself and the topography is very steep.[3]

History

  • There are neolithic petroglyphs near the village.
  • In the period following the Islamic conquest of their Sogdian ancestors Piskon was defecto capital of the yaghnobi refugees.

Notes

  1. ^ Constitution of Tajikistan

References

  1. ^ Village Piskon, tojkiston.ucoz.ru
  2. ^ "Brief Scientific Feasibility Study and Proposed Pre-Project Activities for Establishing the Yaghnob Natural Ethnography Park" (PDF) (in Russian). Тajik Social-Ecological Union (ТСОЭС). 2007. p. 43. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  3. ^ Website of the Yaghnobi survey.
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