1 2 Dushanbe in Persian language Archived 31 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine 1 2 D. Saimaddinov, S. D. Kholmatova, and S. Karimov, Tajik-Russian Dictionary, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Scientific Center for Persian-Tajik Culture, Dushanbe, 2006. ↑ Dushanbe in Dictionary of Geographic Names​ (in Russian) ↑ "The Last Khan".