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ČENGĪZ KHAN
David O. Morgan
(Mong. Chinggis), probably born in 1167 in northeastern Mongolia, d. 1227, founder of the Mongol empire, the most extensive land empire known to history. Čengīz’s achievement, though hardly positive from the point of view of Persia, was by no means wholly a military and a destructive one. In the 1250s, a relatively coherent Mongol kingdom, the Il-khanate, was set up under Čengīz’s grandson Hülegü.
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CENSORING AN IRANIAN LOVE STORY
Sara Khalili
the first novel published in English by noted modernist writer Shahriar Mandanipour.
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CENSORSHIP
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
(sānsūr) in Persia; censorship has been exercised in most societies, including Persia, by the religious establishment, by the political authority, and by unofficial groups.
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CENSUS
Firuz Tawfiq, Daniel Balland
(Pers. sar-šomārī). No census for the purpose of ascertaining the population and acquiring statistical data was taken in Persia until the present century.
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CENSUS i. In Iran
Fīrūz Tawfīq
No census for the purpose of ascertaining the population and acquiring statistical data was taken in Persia until the present century, but information about numbers of persons or families was sometimes collected for the purpose of fixing tax dues or conscript quotas.
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CENSUS ii. In Afghanistan
Daniel Balland
The first national census of Afghanistan was not conducted until 1979, but the idea of such a survey had already taken root during the reign of Šēr-ʿAlī Khan in the 19th century, due to new taxation regulations.
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CENTRAL ASIA
Multiple Authors
This series of articles covers Central Asia.
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CENTRAL ASIA i. Geographical Survey
EIr
The central expanse of the Asian continent, the land mass situated approximately between 55° and 115° E and 25° and 50° N, comprises two geographically distinct areas.
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CENTRAL ASIA ii. Demography
Richard H. Rowland
The combined population of the Uzbek, Kirgiz, Tajik, and Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republics totals more than 30 million people, one tenth of the population of the Soviet Union.
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CENTRAL ASIA iii. In Pre-Islamic Times
Richard N. Frye
The main evidence for the history of Central Asia before the coming of Islam comes from archeological excavations, while written sources contain little information.
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CENTRAL ASIA iv. In the Islamic Period up to the Mongols
C. E. Bosworth
In early Islamic times Persians tended to identify all the lands to the northeast of Khorasan and lying beyond the Oxus with the region of Turan, which in the Šāh-nāma of Ferdowsī is regarded as the land allotted to Ferēdūn’s son Tūr.
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CENTRAL ASIA v. In the Mongol and Timurid Periods
Bertold Spuler
At the death of Čengīz (Chinggis) Khan in 624/1227 the territory he had conquered was divided between his sons.
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CENTRAL ASIA vi. In the 16th-18th Centuries
Robert D. McChesney
In the 16th-17th centuries Central Asia, including Transoxania, Greater Balḵ, and Ḵᵛārazm, witnessed a neo-Chingizid (Jochid) political revival, spearheaded by the ʿArabshahid/Shibanid (Shaibanid) lineage in Ḵᵛārazm and the Abulkhairid/Shibanid and Toqay-Timurid lines in Transoxania and Greater Balḵ. In the main, political life was shaped by the neo-Chingizid appanage system of state and its internal dynamic.
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CENTRAL ASIA vii. In the 18th-19th Centuries
Yuri Bregel
By the beginning of the 12th/18th century Central Asia was in a state of a deepening political and economic crisis.
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CENTRAL ASIA viii. Relations with Persia in the 19th Century
Abbas Amanat
The question of Central Asia in the 13th/19th century, from the Persian point of view, was a prominent one not only because of Persian territorial claims over Marv, Ḵīva, Saraḵs, and other peripheral regions, but also because of the threat of the Turkmen frontier tribes of Tekka, Yomūt, and Gūklān to the security of Khorasan, Astarābād, and Māzandarān.
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CENTRAL ASIA ix. In the 20th Century
Edward Allworth
Technology brought by the Russian military and the colonial administration from Europe included advanced arms and material, as well as railroad, telegraph/telephone, and printed communication.
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CENTRAL ASIA x. Economy Before the Timurids
Peter B. Golden
Climate and geography have, of course, in large measure determined economic pursuits in pre-industrial times.
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CENTRAL ASIA xi. Economy from the Timurids until the 18th Century
Robert D. McChesney
The economy of Central Asia after the fall of Central Asia to the descendants of Čengīz Khan and during their rule was centered on agriculture, but with important contributions from pastoralism, especially the breeding and export of horses.
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CENTRAL ASIA xii. Economy in the 19th-20th Centuries
Ian Matley
When the Russians arrived in Central Asia in the 1860s they found a predominantly agrarian economy. The main grain crops were wheat, barley, and sorghum.
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CENTRAL ASIA xiii. Iranian Languages
Ivan M. Steblin-Kamenskij
Central Asia was the ancient homeland of the Iranians and therefore also of the Iranian languages.