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The Heart of Asia

The Heart of Asia

by Francis Henry Skrine

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Author
Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir, 1871-1940
Title
The heart of Asia : A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times
Credits
Produced by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
Subject
Russia -- Relations -- Asia, Central
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 57750
Release Date
August 23, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE HEART OF ASIA
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION — PART I FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
  5. 5.CHAPTER I Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander
  6. 6.CHAPTER II Bactrians and Parthians
  7. 7.CHAPTER III The Huns and the Yué-Chi
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV The Sāsānides, the Ephthalites, and the Turks
  9. 9.CHAPTER V The Rise of Islām and Invasions of the Arabs
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI The First Eastern Campaigns of Kutayba ibn Muslim
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII Kutayba’s Last Campaigns
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII Kutayba’s Fall and Death
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX Kutayba’s Successors
  14. 14.CHAPTER X Nasr ibn Sayyār and Abū Muslim
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI Khorāsān under the First `Abbāsids
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII The Caliphates of El-Mansūr, El-Hādi, and Hārūn er-Rashīd
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII Decline of the Caliphs’ Authority in Khorāsān. The Tāhirides
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIV The Saffārides and the Rise of the Sāmānides
  19. 19.CHAPTER XV The Sāmānides
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVI The Kara-Khānides, or Uïghūrs
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVII The Ghaznavides and the Rise of the Seljūks
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII The Seljūks
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX Sultan Sanjar and the Kara-Khitāys
  24. 24.CHAPTER XX The Khwārazm-shāhs
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXI Chingiz Khān
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXII Mongol Invasion of Central Asia
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII The Line of Chaghatāy
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV Tīmūr, the Great Amīr
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXV The Successors of Tīmūr
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI THE SHAYBĀNIDES
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII The House of Astrakhan
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII The House of Mangit
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX Amīr Nasrullah, a Bokhāran Nero — PART II RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA
  34. 34.CHAPTER I The Making of Russia
  35. 35.CHAPTER II Crossing the Threshold of Asia
  36. 36.CHAPTER III The Struggle with the Khānates
  37. 37.CHAPTER IV Turkomania and the Turkomans
  38. 38.CHAPTER V The Last Step in Advance
  39. 39.CHAPTER VI The Central Asian Railways
  40. 40.CHAPTER VII Transcaspia in 1898
  41. 41.CHAPTER VIII Askabad and Merv
  42. 42.CHAPTER IX Bokhārā, a Protected Native State
  43. 43.CHAPTER X SAMARKAND
  44. 44.CHAPTER XI Friends or Foes?
  45. 45.APPENDIX I
  46. 46.APPENDIX II
  47. 47.FOOTNOTES
  48. 48.INDEX
  49. 49.Transcriber’s Notes

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