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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 | |