Roshor is a village located on the upper reaches of the Bartang River in Rushon District

Rushon district

Rushon District or Nohiya-i Rushon is a district in east Tajikistan, in the west-central part of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province . It stretches along the Bartang River between the Yazgulem Range to the north and the Rushon Range to the south...

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Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province is an autonomous, mountainous province in the east of Tajikistan. Located in the Pamir Mountains, it makes up 45% of the land area of the country but only 3% of the population....

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

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Roshor is situated on plateau and is settled and has cultivated land. In his journey the Pamir Mountains

Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range in Central Asia formed by the junction or knot of the Himalayas, Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush ranges. They are among the world’s highest mountains and since Victorian times they have been known as the "Roof of the World" a probable...

 in 1897-98, British agent Ralph Cobbold

Ralph Cobbold

Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Patteson Cobbold, DSO served in the 60th Rifles in India.Ralph Cobbold was the second son of the Ipswich MP John Patteson Cobbold. He explored the Pamirs in 1897–1898. His report on Russian plans to occupy Chitral was an important episode in the Great Game between the...

 passed through Roshor. In his memoirs Cobbold stated that the village had fifty houses.

The population of Roshor is Tajik

Tajiks

Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of Persian-speaking people of Iranic origin, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan...

 and speaks a district dialect of the Rushani language

Rushani language

The Rushani language is a dialect of Shughni language, a Pamir language.-Literature:*Zarubin, I.I.. Bartangskie i rushanskie teksty i slovar. Moskva : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1937....

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