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Alexander the Great changed the world, and the collapse of his empire led to many new kingdoms. One such was Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom.

Who were the Andronovo? This Bronze Age culture, precursors to the Scythians, lived in possibly matriarchal societies over a vast area of the Eurasian steppe.

The farming wealth and strategic location of ancient Bactria, today’s Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, made it valuable to all empires in the region.

A timeline of more than 40 years of war in Afghanistan Sign In The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11FILE - In this photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, then President Ronald Reagan meets with Afghan "freedom fighters" on Feb. 2, 1983, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, to discuss Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan. The former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak...

  1869 (dated)         1 : 2027520 Description This monumental map details the southern frontier of the Russian Empire in Asia, extending southwards to the British sphere of influence in Afghanistan, the Punjab and Kashmir. The western part of the map reaches as far as the Aral Sea and Kashmar, formerly Torshīz (شیز) in Persia. The eastern limits of the map are dominated by the Chinese Empire. The lands covered are today divided between Kazakhstan in the north, Uzbekistan across t...

Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with Spender and Auden, journeyed down the Oxus River to its source and, with no support, opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perri...

News From Antiwar.com CNN reports that a U.S. defense official informed them Washington is considering deploying warships to the Black Sea as a demonstration of support to the government of Ukraine in response to what was described as increased Russian military presence on Ukraine’s eastern border. The Black Sea is nowhere near the current conflict zone in the Donbass, east of which the alleged Russian build-up is occurring. The feature mentioned that U.S. Navy routinely operates in the Black...

posted on 16/03/21 For insight into what ‘global’ meant in times before globalisation, we have the Silk Road. A network of sometimes secure and other times fraught traders’ tracks crisscrossed 2,000 years of civilisation between the Mediterranean, India and China, and in the middle, the cities of Central Asia caught glimpses of the world on all sides. These cities and their transregional interactions across Eurasia gave shape to important phenomena, such as Sufism, the Mongol Empire, and ...

February 17, 2021 A multivolume set of books on Uzbekistans cultural treasures is shown at a conference in Tashkent. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Uzbekistan’s Alisher Navoiy National Library is named after him. So is a metro station in Tashkent, the nation’s capital. Not to mention Navoi International Airport, as well as Uzbekistan’s second-largest province, Navoiy— home to a million people—and even a 41-mile-wide crater on the planet Mercury. We’re talking here, of course, about 15th-ce...

AT News KABUL: General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov crossed the Oxus River as the last Soviet troop to leave Afghanistan on February 14, 1989 and to end a nine-year of military invasion of Afghanistan. 13,000 of 100,000 Soviet soldiers serving in the Afghan war were killed and 35,000 others wounded and maimed. The war also took hundreds of thousands victims from Afghans, while millions fled the country. This was the intensive part of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States w...