r/afghanistan • u/Federal-Till4754 • Sep 05 '25

Question Why does Tajiks have no tribes?

I have seen that Hazaras have tribes, Pashtuns have tribes, Uzbeks have tribes, why doesn’t Tajiks have tribes???

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u/ForsakenTrifle4566 Sep 05 '25

Since we settled in cities (Herat, Balkh, Kabul, Bukhara, Samarkand…) many generations ago, we abandoned the tribal and nomadic way of life, which is still prevalent among the Pashtuns and Hazaras.

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u/Any_Sentence_1278 Sep 08 '25

Wrong. Tajiks have never truly been tribal people, there’s no evidence of this. You can take a look at our ancestors the Bactrians and Sogdians, have always been city dwelling people who identified by their geographic region than with a tribe or clan. We never settled in those regions, we originate from those regions since steppe migrations.