Hulbuk (), formerly Vose' (Восеъ), Poytug (Пойтуғ) is the capital of the

Vose' District Vose District (; ) is a Districts of Tajikistan, district in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan. Its capital is the town Hulbuk (former name: ''Vose''). The population of the district is 216,500 (January 2020 estimate). Administrative divisions The distr ...

of the

Khatlon Region Khatlon Region (), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan, is the most populous of the four first-level administrative regions in the country. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor Range, Hisor (Gissar) Range in the n ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

. It had an estimated population of 24,500 as of 2020. It is located in the southern portion of Tajikistan southwest of

Kulob Kulob or Khatlon is a city in Khatlon Region in southern Tajikistan. Located southeast of the capital Dushanbe on the river Yakhsu (a right tributary of Panj), it is one of the largest cities in the country. Its population is estimated at 106 ...

and south of

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

, capital of Tajikistan.

Geography

Climate

Hulbuk has a

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(

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''BSk''). The average annual temperature is 16.4 °C (61.5 °F). The warmest month is July with an average temperature of 29 °C (84.2 °F) and the coolest month is January with an average temperature of 2.8 °C (37 °F). The average annual precipitation is and has an average of 71.3 days with precipitation. The wettest month is March with an average of of precipitation and the driest month is August with an average of 0 mm of precipitation.

History

It is suspected that Hulbuk, a medieval town, housed the

Banijurids The Banijurids or Abu Dawudids were a short-lived Iranian peoples, Iranian dynasty that ruled Bactria, Tukharistan and parts of the Hindu Kush. They were vassals of the Samanids until their fall in 908. Rulers #Hasim ibn Banijur (r. 848–857) #Daw ...

, a Turco-Iranian dynasty from the eastern region of Central Asia. Hulbuk allegedly facilitated a rich and powerful court suspected by the palatial and monumental architecture found in the region. In 1953, the initial excavation took place for more than 40 years and uncovered a

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. Unfortunately, no topographical map has been drawn of the site. The citadel is thought to be built as a stronghold, lending support that it was used by the dynasty.

References

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