Shuman

Shuman was a district of the eastern Hissar valley, encompassing the country around Dushanbe and reaching north towards the Anzob pass. The tenth-century geography Hudud al-Alam describes a fortified town with a spring inside its citadel, while saffron from Shuman was prized in Khorasan. Later Dushanbe grew around a Monday market in the valley and remained subject to the beg of Hissar.