Pakistan in the Pamir Knot: Geostrategic Imperatives |
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... nomads whose known history dates back atleast to 200 B.C. Ethnically the Kirghiz descend from Turko - Mon- golian nomads of the Russian Pamirs and Chinese Turkes- tan.21 . The Kirghiz of Wakhan remain snowbound four months of the year ...
... nomads whose known history dates back atleast to 200 B.C. Ethnically the Kirghiz descend from Turko - Mon- golian nomads of the Russian Pamirs and Chinese Turkes- tan.21 . The Kirghiz of Wakhan remain snowbound four months of the year ...
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... nomads , and locating it at Chim- kent in a fertile country with a sedentary population . But the very next year , 1865 , saw the capture of Tash- kent . Samarkent was forcibly detached from Bokhara in 868. Soon the state of Bokhara ...
... nomads , and locating it at Chim- kent in a fertile country with a sedentary population . But the very next year , 1865 , saw the capture of Tash- kent . Samarkent was forcibly detached from Bokhara in 868. Soon the state of Bokhara ...
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... nomad tribes . ( ii ) It was essential that the line of forts thus com- pleted should be placed in a fertile country , not only in order to ensure supplies , but to facilitate regular colonisation which alone can give an occupied ...
... nomad tribes . ( ii ) It was essential that the line of forts thus com- pleted should be placed in a fertile country , not only in order to ensure supplies , but to facilitate regular colonisation which alone can give an occupied ...
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