Roshorv (Tajik: Рошорв) is a village in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, southeastern Tajikistan.[1] It is part of the jamoat Savnob in Rushon District.[2] It lies on the upper reaches of the river Bartang.
Roshorv
Рошорв | |
|---|---|
  Roshorv Location in Tajikistan | |
| Coordinates: 38°19′04″N 72°19′29″E / 38.31778°N 72.32472°E | |
| Country |  Tajikistan |
| Region | Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region |
| District | Rushon District |
Roshorv is situated on a plateau and is settled and has cultivated land. In his journey the Pamir Mountains in 1897-98, British agent Ralph Cobbold passed through Roshorv. In his memoirs Cobbold stated that the village had fifty houses.[3]
The population of Roshorv is Tajik and speaks a district dialect of the Rushani language.[4]
References
edit- ^ Falling Rain gazetteer
- ^ Village Roshorv, tojkiston.ucoz.ru
- ^ Ralp P. Cobbold. Innermost Asia: Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. p. 168
- ^ http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/15156738/full_citation/Ethno_cultural_heritage_of_the_peoples_of_west_Pamir_ L.R. Dodykhudoeva Ethno-cultural heritage of the peoples of west Pamir. Coll Antropol 2004. pp. 147-59.