Central Asia
epub |eng | 2024-02-07 | Author:Nick Holmes [Holmes, Nick]

24 Blitzkrieg in the West In early 451, the Huns crossed the Rhine. The first major city to fall was Metz, ninety miles west of the Rhine. It was completely ...
( Category: Central Asia February 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-10 | Author:Ali Ahmad Jalali; [Ali Ahmad Jalali]

The khan vented his anger on those who were left behind. He disposed of the sultan’s harem and treasures and tossed Jalaluddin’s eldest son, a lad of eight years, and ...
( Category: Central Asia January 24,2024 )
pdf |en | | Author: Chuen-Fung Wong (editor); Frederick Lau (editor)

( Category: Central Asia September 8,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Musa Sayrami; Eric Schluessel

( Category: Central Asia September 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mott, Christopher; [Mott, Christopher]

Russia faced unique national security problems. Historically, its expansion had been the elusive quest for defensible borders largely absent on the great plains of Russia. But expansion created only very ...
( Category: Central Asia August 24,2023 )
epub | | | Author:Ben Acheson

The Iron Emir’s transfer of the tribes Born in the 1840s, Abdur Rahman was the grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan – founder of the Second Durrani Dynasty. He spent most ...
( Category: Central Asia August 15,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hassan Abbas

Sufism in Afghanistan What compounds the tragedy of the Taliban’s mindset is just how vastly opposite it is to the legacy of faith so deeply embedded in the fabric of ...
( Category: Central Asia August 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-12 | Author:Christopher I. Beckwith [Beckwith, Christopher I.]

45. Kent (1950: 209) “Sugda- Suguda- ‘Sogdiana’,” citing Elamite šu-ug-da, Akkadian su-ug-du, Greek Σογδιᾱνή. Cf. Old Tibetan སོག་དག་ Sogdag ‘Sogdian(s)’ [sʊgdak] vs. Sogdian Sugdīk (Szemerényi 1980: 27). 46. See Endnote ...
( Category: Central Asia July 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-12 | Author:Christopher I. Beckwith;

( Category: Central Asia June 14,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Adrienne Edgar

Names and Naming in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan Naming in Soviet Central Asia was a mix of local and Russophone traditions. The diverse ethnic groups living in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan had ...
( Category: Central Asia June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Keay

So David-Néel never got to complete her circuit of Kawa Karpo. Nonetheless, and possibly as a result of some confusion between the two mountains, her biographers (and hence Wikipedia) credit ...
( Category: Central Asia June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Haug;

Chapter 7 Unifying the Frontier: The Formation of Greater Khurāsān The Ṭāhirids, the Sāmānids and the frontier process In 1953, Vladimir Minorsky coined the term Iranian Intermezzo to describe the ...
( Category: Central Asia June 13,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Annette Juliano, J. Lerner

( Category: Central Asia May 31,2023 )
pdf | | 2010-08-05 | Author:Mongolian (script) Complete

( Category: Central Asia May 4,2023 )