Uzbekistan on a Historical Threshold

From: Finance India | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Jain, Aarti | Copyright information

Levitin, Leonid; Uzbekistan on a Historical Threshold; 2001, Granta Editions, Cambridge, UK, pp.273, Price US $ 75/-.

Uzbekistan, the ancient cradle between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river, is the most historically fascination of the Central Asian Republic. The territory of modern day Uzbekistan and its close neighbors have seen many empires rise & fall. The Sogdians, the Macedonians, the Huns, the Mangolians, the Seljuks, the Timurids and the Khanates of Samarkand, Bukhara, Khir...

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