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Yang Liangyao's Mission of 785 to the Caliph of Baġdād: evidence of an early Sino-Arabic power alliance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The primary focus of this article is the information provided in a tomb stele (shendao zhi bei 神道之碑) of a Chinese eunuch, a certain Yang Liangyao 楊良瑤 (736–806), that will be comparatively analysed against the background of the political landscape under ...
Schottenhammer, Angela
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Continuation of Greek Tradition and Innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
An ‘International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has earned the merit of editing an interesting tract by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā’ al-Rāzī, in Latin tradition known as Rhazes (854–925 or 935), with the ...
Strohmaier, Gotthard
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The Topkapı collection [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 120-Saraylarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN ...
Çağman, Filiz
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The miner and the manuscripts [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 120-Saraylarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN ...
Lawton, John
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Historical giants : forefathers of modern hospitality and tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
When tourism began and who the first the first tourists were is a question that many have tried to answer only to end up looking naive when new discoveries have proved their theories wrong. However, it is safe to say that it did not all start with Thomas
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Challenges in teaching and curriculum development for 'History of Kazakhstan' at Nazarbayev University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is the text on which I based a talk in Russian given at the plenary session of a conference held at the Eurasian National University on the 22nd November 2014. It was published in the conference proceedings: E.B.
Alexander Stephen, Morrison
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Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is a revision and correction of Chapter 3 of my 2008 monograph ('Russian Rule in Samarkand') in which I made a number of errors and misjudgements.
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
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Mapping maritime power and control: a study of the late eighteenth century Qisheng yanhai tu (a coastal map of the seven provinces) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article surveys a Chinese coastal map (haitu), similar to the sea charts used in the west. The map was produced in the late eighteenth century under the official supervision of the Qing court.
Po, Ronald C.
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The ‘Stans’ at 20 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In late December the five Central Asian countries enter their third decade of independence, effectively achieved when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR and turned the Kremlin over to Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian ...
Brill Olcott, Martha
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