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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
For these empire-builders, the vast grassy steppe that stretched across Eurasia from Manchuria to Hungary was an open road to commercial wealth and almost limitless power. The trading cities of the Near and Middle East were a natural target.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Roughly four centuries after the rise of the Arab caliphates, the Arab-led empires were themselves confronted with a new and vigorous rival: Turkish tribes that emerged from Central Asia (present-day Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan) and entered the lands of western Asia via Persia. These Turkish tribes, beginning with the Seljuks, were heavily
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Some scholars have argued that it was a Soviet conference in Tashkent in 1921 that led Turkis in…
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