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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The Central Asian region comprises the former Soviet Socialist Republics that are, since 1991, the newly independent states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and lie between the Caspian Sea and western China. This region occupies a central position in world geography. The region lay at the heart of the great Asian empires of the Mongols, Omayyads, Abbasids, Samanids, and Saljuquid Turks and was the base of Timur the Lame or Tamerlane who forayed into northern India
also. Babur emerged from this region to invade India and establish the Moghul Empire.' Geo-politically the power that is able to control Central Asia is in a position to access all other parts of Asia as well as Eastern Europe and the Middle East with relative ease; this makes this area a hotbed of competition among the major global powers.
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