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Rediscovering Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Denis Sinor
Denis Sinor*
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Indiana University
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Abstract

The term ‘Central Asia’ has been in use for 150 years, yet it is only since the collapse of the Soviet Union and, more recently, growth in awareness and concern about international terrorism, particularly in the USA, that the countries of Central Asia have become significant players on the international political stage. Denis Sinor describes the historical, cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the newly independent republics of the area: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan.

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Diogenes , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , November 2004, pp. 7 - 19
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Copyright © ICPHS 2004

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