Garm is a district in the Rasht Valley area of central Tajikistan. It is also the principle city of this district. The Rasht Valley is an administrative and geographic unit of Tajikistan comprising the six districts of Jirgital, Garm, Ragoun, Tavildara, Tajikabad and Nurabad. ...
Garm, (Tajik:Гарм, alternative spellings Harm and Gharm), is a district in the Rasht Valley area of central Tajikistan.
During the 1920s Garm was a hotbed for the Basmachi, the anti-Soviet resistance in Central Asia.
In 1955 the Garm oblast was abolished and the land was redistributed to the Gorno-Badakshhan Autonomous Oblast and the Regions under Republican Subordination Oblast.
In Norse mythology, Garm was a huge dog that guarded Helheim, the land of the dead, living in a cave called Gnipa (Gnipahellir).
Garm was the greatest of all dogs (excluding the Fenris wolf).
After the first occurrence, the Fimbulwinter is related; the second occurrence is succeded by the invasion of giants in the world of gods; after the last occurrence, the rise of a new and better world is described.
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