Caspian Sea
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
Named after the ancient Caspii who lived on its southwestern shores, the Caspian is the world’s largest inland body of water. Geographically it is a lake, but it is big ...
Jaxartes
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
P ublished online December 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Middle Eastern History. 123 words.
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Oxus
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
P ublished online March 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Middle Eastern History. 148 words.
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Armenia
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
P ublished online December 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Middle Eastern History. 1175 words.
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Media
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
P ublished online March 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Middle Eastern History. 437 words.
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Slavery in Islamic Central Asia
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
P ublished online May 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Central Asian History; Middle Eastern History; Asian History. 7456 words.
By the late 19th century, when much of Islamic Central Asia was conquered by the Russian Empire, the region was home to tens of thousands of slaves. Most of these slaves were Shiʿa Muslims...
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