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Central Asia - Religions.
Islam is the religion most common in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, Afghanistan, Xinjiang and the peripheral western regions. Most Central Asian Muslims are Sunni, although Shia comprise the great majority in Azerbaijan, and in Afghanistan and Pakistan there are sizable Shia minorities. Tibetan Buddhism is most common in Tibet, Mongolia, and the southern Russian regions of Siberia, where Shamanism is also popular. Increasing Han Chinese migration westward since the establishm ...
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Central Asia - Definitions The idea of Central Asia as a distinct region of the world was introduced in 1843 by the geographer Alexander von Humboldt. The borders of Central Asia are subject to multiple definitions. Many text books still refer to this area as Turkestan, which was the name used prior to Stalin's rule.
The most limited definition was the official one of the Soviet Union that defined the "Middle Asia" as consisting solely of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, but did not include Kazakhstan. This definition was also often used ou ...
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Unocal Corporation - Central Asia Unocal was one of the key players in the CentGas consortium, an attempt to build a pipeline to run from the Caspian area, through Afghanistan and probably Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. One of the consultants to Unocal at that time was Zalmay Khalilzad, now US ambassador to Iraq. The CentGas pipeline was not built, due to inability of CentGas and the Taliban to come to a mutually acceptable economic understanding. Shortly thereafter, the US invaded Afghanistan, removing Taliban control from Afghanistan ...
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Central Asia - Geostrategy Central Asia has long been a strategic location merely because of its proximity to several great powers on the Eurasian landmass. The region itself never held a dominant stationary population, nor was able to make use of natural resources. Thus it has rarely throughout history become the seat of power for an empire or influential state. Much like Poland throughout European history, Central Asia has been divided, redivided, conquered out of existence, and fragmented time and t ...
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia - Unocal Corporation The Unocal Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, based in El Segundo, California, was founded in 1890 as the Union Oil Company of California. Unocal is also known as Unocal 76. Union 76 gasoline is no longer sold by the company, which sold its retail operations to ConocoPhillips. In April 2005, the company agreed to a merger with ChevronTexaco (now Chevron); however, in June 2005, the Chinese oil company Cnooc made a rival $18.5 billion bid. On July 19, 2005, Unocal agreed to merge with Chevron. Unocal and Che ...
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Heartland Halford J. Mackinder, a British polymath, would describe a region of the world he labelled the "Geographic Pivot of History" in a 1904 speech to a British geographical society. This idea would become the foundation of his contribution to geostrategy. Geographically, the Pivot encompasses all of Central Asia, with the addition of large parts of Iran, and Russia as well.
The Geographic Pivot is an area on the continent of Eurasia which is either landlocked, or whose rivers and littoral fed into inland seas or the ice-locked Arctic Ocean ...
See also:Geostrategy in Central Asia, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic geography, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic locations, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Great Game, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Debated and Debatable zone, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Heartland, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Soviet collapse, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Oil politics, Geostrategy in Central Asia - War on Terror Read more here: » Geostrategy in Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Heartland |
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - History of Central Asia - Prehistory Recent genetic studies have concluded that humans arrived in the region around 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, making the region one of the oldest sites of human habitation. The archaeological evidence of population in this region is sparse, however, whereas evidence of human habitation in Africa and Australia prior to that of Central Asia is well-known. Some studies have also identified this region as the likeliest source of the populations who later inhabited Europe, Siberia, and North America.[1] The region is also often considered to be ...
See also:History of Central Asia, History of Central Asia - Prehistory, History of Central Asia - External influences, History of Central Asia - Return of indigenous rule, History of Central Asia - Conquest of the steppes, History of Central Asia - Foreign control of Turkestan, History of Central Asia - Russia's Campaigns, History of Central Asia - Chinese Influence, History of Central Asia - Revolution and Revolt, History of Central Asia - Soviet and PRC domination, History of Central Asia - Since 1991, History of Central Asia - Notes, History of Central Asia - References & further reading Read more here: » History of Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - History of Central Asia - Prehistory |
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic geography Central Asia had both the advantage and disadvantage of a central location between four historical seats of power. From its central location, it has access to trade routes, or lines of attack, to all the regional powers. On the other hand, it has been continuously vulnerable to attack from all sides throughout its history, resulting in political fragmentation or outright power vacuum, as it is successively dominated.
To the North, the steppe allowed for rapid mobility, first for nomadic horseback warriors like the Huns and Mongo ...
See also:Geostrategy in Central Asia, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic geography, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic locations, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Great Game, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Debated and Debatable zone, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Heartland, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Soviet collapse, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Oil politics, Geostrategy in Central Asia - War on Terror Read more here: » Geostrategy in Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic geography |
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| | | | Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - Debated and Debatable zone Alfred Thayer Mahan, the father of U.S. geostrategy, outlined the geostrategic divisions of Eurasia in his 1900 piece The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies. He divided Asia into three parts:
Russian dominated land to the north of the 40th parallel;
British dominated lands to the south of the 30th parallel; and
the Debated and Debatable zone ...
See also:Geostrategy in Central Asia, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic geography, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic locations, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Great Game, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Debated and Debatable zone, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Heartland, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Soviet collapse, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Oil politics, Geostrategy in Central Asia - War on Terror Read more here: » Geostrategy in Central Asia: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - Debated and Debatable zone |
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