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| Preface | |
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| General Key to the Maps | |
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| Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Changes in Geographical Names | |
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| Introductory Maps | |
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| Physical Characteristics | |
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| Political Characteristics | |
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| Natural Resources | |
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| Demography | |
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| Central Asian Cultures | |
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| Early History, Sixth Century B.C. To Sixth Century A.D. | |
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| Political Map of the Ancient World | |
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| Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana and Khwarezm, Sixth to Third Centuries B.C. | |
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| Alexander the Great and the Greek Influence in Central Asia | |
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| Parthian Empire and the Kushans | |
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| Sassanid Empire, Third to Seventh Centuries | |
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| Early Turkic Empires | |
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| Religions in Central Asia: Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Christianity | |
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| International Trade and the Beginning of the Great Silk Road | |
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| Islamic Golden Age, Seventh to Twelfth Centuries A.D. | |
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| The Political Map of Central Asia in the Middle Ages | |
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| The Arab Conquest of Central Asia | |
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| Consolidation of the Caliphate's Political Influence | |
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| The Samanids (875-999) | |
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| The Karakhanid State (999-1140) | |
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| The Seljuks (ca. 1038-1194) | |
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| The Rise and Collapse of Khwarezm | |
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| International and Major Trade Routes in Central Asia | |
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| The Mongols and The Decline of Central Asia | |
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| The Mongol Invasion of Central Asia | |
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| Central Asia under the Mongols | |
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| Disintegration of the Mongol Empire | |
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| Timur (Tamerlane) and the Timurid Empire in Central Asia | |
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| Disintegration of the Timurid Empire | |
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| The Rise of the Uzbek Khanate | |
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| Bukhara and the Khwarezm Khanates. The Kazakhs and Turkomans | |
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| The Era of Colonialism and Nation-State Building | |
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| Central Asia and the Major Colonial Powers in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Russian Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe | |
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| Russian Colonization of Central Asia | |
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| Early Administrative Division of Central Asia | |
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| Administrative and Political Changes in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| The Bolshevik Revolution | |
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| Creation of the Turkistan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
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| Civil War in Central Asia | |
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| Nation-State Delimitation in Central Asia, 1924-1926 | |
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| Administrative and Political Changes in Central Asia, 1926-1936 | |
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| Economic Changes in Central Asia | |
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| Post-Communism and Independence | |
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| Interethnic Conflicts and the Collapse of the USSR | |
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| Independent Kazakhstan | |
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| Independent Kyrgyzstan | |
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| Independent Tajikistan | |
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| Independent Turkmenistan | |
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| Independent Uzbekistan | |
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| Ethnic Composition and Major Territorial Disputes | |
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| Central Asia and the War on International Terrorism | |
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| Border Disputes in the Farghona Valley | |
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| Major Oil and Gas Pipeline Proposals | |
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| Transportation Routes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |