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"Khujandi" "خجندى"the word khujandi has been derived from "khujand" خجند. Khujandi خجندى also known as "khundai" "خوندئی" is sir name that indicates to our demographic history. Khujand خجند is a city from where our forefathers belong. one of the oldest city of central ASia, dating back about 2500 years.

Precise information about the early history of Khujand is scanty, but it is evident that the city belonged to various states. It was part of the Hephthalite realm in the 5th century CE, and after the defeat of the Hephthalites by the armies of the Western Turkish Kaghanate in 563-67 it fell under the latter’s control until the Arab conquest of Transoxania in the early 8th century. The first raid on Khujand by Arab forces occurred in 680 and was repulsed. But they came again, and in 713 an onerous truce was imposed on the city (Yuldashev, p. 102). The Arab siege and capture of Khujand in 722 for the second time (the city probably rebelled between 713 and 722), was followed by pillaging and the slaughter of several thousand defenders, and this brought Khujand under the rule of the Caliphate until the beginning of the 9th century (Ṭabari, III, pp. 1442-46; Gafurov, I, pp. 418-27). Little is known about Khujand under Arab rule, but a brief report from 726 notes that its inhabitants were suffering from hunger and weariness (Yuldashev, p. 103) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khujand