Roshorv () is a village in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, southeastern Tajikistan.Falling Rain gazetteer It is part of the jamoat Savnob in Rushon District.Village Roshorv, tojkiston.ucoz.ru It lies on the upper reaches of the river Bartang.
Roshorv is situated on a plateau and is settled and has cultivated land. In his journey the Pamir Mountains in 1897-98, British agent Ralph Cobbold passed through Roshorv. In his memoirs Cobbold stated that the village had fifty houses.Ralp P. Cobbold. Innermost Asia: Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. p. 168
The population of Roshorv is Tajik and speaks a district dialect of the Rushani language.http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/15156738/full_citation/Ethno_cultural_heritage_of_the_peoples_of_west_Pamir_ L.R. Dodykhudoeva Ethno-cultural heritage of the peoples of west Pamir. Coll Antropol 2004. pp. 147-59.
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