Central Asia Central Asia Ancient India and Central Asia have long traditions of socio-cultural, political and economic contact since remote antiquity. The two regions have common and contiguous borders, climatic continuity, similar geographical features and geo-cultural affinity. There has always been uninterrupted flow of men, material and the ideas between the two. So much so, some ancient literary sources trace common lineage for Indians, Iranians and other nationalities of Central Asia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient India and Central Asia"
In northern Turkic-speaking areas of Central Asia, entertainers known as bacchá (a Turkic Uzbeki term perhaps etymologically derived from the Persian bacheh, بچه - "child" or "kid") were once common, and constituted the commercial and transgender side of the local pederastic tradition, known as bacchabozlik. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bacchá"
Bactria (Bactriana) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush ( Caucasus Indicus) and the Amu Darya ( Oxus); its capital, Bactra (now Balkh), was located in what is now northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bactria"
Central Asia ( Russian: Средняя Азия/"Srednyaya Azia" for "Middle Asia" or Центральная Азия/"Tsentral'naya Azia" for "Central Asia"; in Persian آسياى ميانه; Standard Mandarin Chinese: 中亚/ pinyin: "Zhōngyà"; Arabic: ﺔﻄﻮﺳﻠﺍ ﺎﺴﻴﺁ/"Asya al Wsta") is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics. For one, Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road. As a result, it has acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. It is also sometimes known as Middle Asia or Inner Asia, and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent. It is also sometimes known as Turkestan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Asia"
The Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO) is an international organization, composed of five member-states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. Observer status has been given to Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Asian Cooperation Organization"
The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. They are: ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Asian Republics"
The Fergana Valley (also Ferghana Valley) is a region in the Tian Shan mountain ranges of Central Asia spreading across eastern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fergana Valley" You've Got Questions. We've Got www.shortopedia.com.
Central Asia has long been a geostrategic location merely because of its proximity to several great powers on the Eurasian landmass. The region itself never held a dominant stationary population, nor was able to make use of natural resources. Thus it has rarely throughout history become the seat of power for an empire or influential state. Much like Poland throughout European history, Central Asia has been divided, redivided, conquered out of existence, and fragmented time and time again. Central Asia has served more as the battleground for outside powers, than as a power in its own right. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geostrategy in Central Asia"
Khwarezmia was a state centred on the Amu Darya river delta of the former Aral Sea, in modern Uzbekistan, extending across the Ust-Urt plateau and possibly as far west as the eastern shores of the northern Caspian Sea. To the south it bordered Khorasan, to the north the kingdom of Alans, to the southeast Kangju and Sogdian Transoxiana, and on the northeast with the Huns of Transiaxartesia. Its capitals were Urgench and, from the 17th century on, Khiva when Khwarezmia became known as the Khanate of Khiva. Khwarezmia has been known also as Khwarezm, Khwarizm, Khwarazm, Khorezm, Khoresm, Khorasam, Chorezm, or Chorasmia. In Uzbek it is Xorazm, in Russian, Хорезм (Xorezm), in Persian, خوارزم (Khwārazm), and in Arabic, خوارزم (Khwārizm). ...more on Wikipedia about "Khwarezmia"
Otrar (also called Farab) was a city located along the silk road near the current town of Karatou in Kazakhstan. This town was famous in Central Asia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Otrar"
Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Qashqay, Kashgai and Qashqa'i). The Il-e Qasqāy is a tribal confederation of clans of Turkic origin in Iran. They live mainly in Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan Provinces, but particularly around the city of Shiraz. ...more on Wikipedia about "Qashqai"
Russian Turkestan ( Russian: Русский Туркестан), also known as Turkestansky Krai (Туркестанский край), was a subdivision ( Krai or Governor-Generalship) of Imperial Russia, comprising the oasis region to the South of the Kazakh steppes, but not the Protectorates of Bukhara and Khiva. ...more on Wikipedia about "Russian Turkestan"
Sogdiana ("Sug`ud","Sug`diyona" -Uzbek, Sughd - Tajik, Sugdiane, Old Persian Sughuda, Persian: سغد , Chinese: Kang-Kü) ancient civilization of Iranian peoples, then was a province of the Achaemenian Empire, the eighteenth in the list in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great (i. 16). Sogdiana at different periods of time included territories around Samarkand, Bukhara, and Kesh (Shakhrisabz) in modern Uzbekistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sogdiana"
Ta-Hsia, or Daxia (Chinese: 大夏) is the name given in antiquity by the Chinese to the territory of Bactria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ta-Hsia" My www.shortopedia.com is mine. shortopedia
Tartary or Great Tartary ( Latin: Tartaria or Tataria Magna) was a name used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate a great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples of the Mongol Empire who were generically referred to as "Tartars," i.e. Tatars. It incorporated the current areas of Siberia, Turkestan (including East Turkestan), Greater Mongolia, Manchuria, and sometimes Tibet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tartary"
The Great Game is a term, usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The term was later popularized by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his work, Kim. In Russia the same rivalry and strategic conflict was known as the Tournament of Shadows (Турниры теней). The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running from approximately 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second, less intensive phase followed. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Great Game"
Tocharian is one of the most obscure branches of the Indo-European language group. It consisted of two languages, Tocharian A (Turfanian, Arsi, or East Tocharian) and Tocharian B (Kuchean or West Tocharian). These languages were spoken roughly from the 6th to 8th centuries, before they became extinct, their speakers being either wiped out or assimilated by the expanding Uighur tribes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tocharian languages"
Transoxiana (sometimes spelled Transoxania) is the largely obsolete name used for the portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan and southwest Kazakhstan. Geographically, it means the region between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. When used in the present, it usually implies that one is talking about that region in the time prior to about the 8th century CE, although the term continued to remain in use among western historians for several centuries after. In Persian epic Shahnameh, written by the poet Ferdowsi, Transoxiana (Turan) is homeland of Iranian nomadic tribes known as Turanians and the Oxus river is the border between Iran and Turan ( Aniran). (See also: Arash) ...more on Wikipedia about "Transoxiana"
Turkestan (also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. It also contains some of the great cities of Persian culture, notably Samarkand and Bukhara, and still has a substantial Iranian population, known today as Tajiks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turkestan"
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