Russia in Central Asia in 1889 & the Anglo-Russian QuestionLongmans, 1889 - 477 Seiten |
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... Asian dominions of the Czar of Russia . Exigencies of space , however , and the limitations of journalistic propriety , prevented me from including in my letters a good deal of information which I had obtained ; and were , of course ...
... Asian dominions of the Czar of Russia . Exigencies of space , however , and the limitations of journalistic propriety , prevented me from including in my letters a good deal of information which I had obtained ; and were , of course ...
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... Asian Question for five years ; and those five years have marked an incalculable advance in the character and dimensions of the problem . With unimpeachable truth Skobeleff once wrote in a letter : In Central Asia the position of ...
... Asian Question for five years ; and those five years have marked an incalculable advance in the character and dimensions of the problem . With unimpeachable truth Skobeleff once wrote in a letter : In Central Asia the position of ...
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... Asian picture . In these respects I have not aspired to follow in their footsteps . It is not my aim to produce a mag- nified Bædeker's Handbook to Transcaspia . I assume a certain foreknowledge on the part of my readers with the ...
... Asian picture . In these respects I have not aspired to follow in their footsteps . It is not my aim to produce a mag- nified Bædeker's Handbook to Transcaspia . I assume a certain foreknowledge on the part of my readers with the ...
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... Asia ; a chronological table , drawn up by myself , of British and Russian movements in Central Asia in this century , which may help to elucidate the narrative ; and a Bibliography , which , without pretending to be exhaus- tive ...
... Asia ; a chronological table , drawn up by myself , of British and Russian movements in Central Asia in this century , which may help to elucidate the narrative ; and a Bibliography , which , without pretending to be exhaus- tive ...
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... Asian railway - Scheme of M. Ferdi- nand de Lesseps - Attitude of England - Idea of a Transcaspian railway - Adoption of the plan by Skobeleff - Completion to Kizil Arvat in December 1881 - Ideas of further extension-
... Asian railway - Scheme of M. Ferdi- nand de Lesseps - Attitude of England - Idea of a Transcaspian railway - Adoption of the plan by Skobeleff - Completion to Kizil Arvat in December 1881 - Ideas of further extension-
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Abdurrahman advance Afghan frontier Afghan Turkestan Afghanistan Akhal Alikhanoff already Amir Amu Daria Annenkoff army Asian Asiatic Askabad Baku Balkh banks Bokhara Bokhariots Britain British canals capital Caspian Caucasus Central Asia character Colonel commercial conquest cotton Czar desert distance district dominions Dushak East England English European favour feet Foreign fortress Geok Tepe Government hand Herat horses importance India Is-hak journey Kabul Kandahar Kerki Khan Khanate Khiva Khorasan Kizil Arvat Krasnovodsk Kush latter less MEDRESSE ment Merv Meshed miles military mosque mountains Murghab native oasis officers Orenburg Oxus pass Penjdeh Persia Petersburg political population pouds present province Quetta rails river roubles route ruins Russian Samarkand sand Sarakhs Shah Skobeleff soldiers station steppes stream successful supplies Syr Daria Tashkent Teharjui Tejend Tekke territory tion town trade Trans Transcaspian Railway traveller treaty troops Turko Turkoman Turkoman horse Uzun Ada Vide walls Zerafshan