Roshor

Roshor is a village located on the upper reaches of the Bartang River in Rushon District, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, Tajikistan.

Roshor is situated on plateau and is settled and has cultivated land. In his journey the Pamir Mountains in 1897-98, British agent Ralph Cobbold passed through Roshor. In his memoirs Cobbold stated that the village had fifty houses. [1]

The population of Roshor is Tajik and speaks a district dialect of the Rushani language.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Ralp P. Cobbold. Innermost Asia: Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. p. 168
  2. ↑ 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.

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