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Abbasid Caliphate

Abdullah (Kurdish driver)

Abdurahman, King

Afghanistan

journey in

Afrasiab

Africa, seaway round

Aga Khan

Ahmadjan

Ahuramazda (god)

Aimaq (nomads)

Ain Jalut, battle of

Akayev, President of Kyrgyzstan

Akbar Khan

al-
for names beginning
al-
see under following element of name

Alamut

Alamut river

Alaric

Alexander the Great

Alexandria

Ali (statistician)

Ali, Caliph

Alik (ex-policeman)

Aloban (Nestorian priest)

Altun mountains

Amanullah, King

America
see
United States of America

Amin, Hafezullah

Amirali (artist and poet)

Amithaba (Buddha of Infinite Light)

Amu Darya/Oxus river

Anatolia

Ancestors, claimed
see also
Manas

Andijan

Andkvoi

Annar (Kyrgyz)

Ansari

Antioch

Antiochus IV, King

Antoninus Pius, emperor

Apak Hoja mausoleum, Kashgar

Apollo

Arabian Incense Road

Arabs

Aral Sea

Arhun (watchman)

Armenia

Armenians

Aryans

Asmu, Imam: tomb

Assassins

Assyria

Assyrian church

At-Bashy

Athens

Ata, Mohammed

Attar

Augustus Caesar, emperor

Aurelian, emperor

Azerbaijan

Iranian

Azeris

Babur, emperor

Babylon

Bacon, Francis

Bactria

Bactrians

Badakshan

Baghdad

Baisanghur, prince

Balkh

Barnabas, St

Basra

‘Beauty of Kroran, The’

Behesht-e Zahra

Beijing

see also
Tiananmen Square

Bethlehem

Bibi Khanum mosque

Samarkand

Bihzad

bin Laden, Osama

Birecik

Bishkek

Black Jade river, Khotan

Black Mountains

Bodh Gaya

Bolsheviks

Bombyx mori
(silk moth)

Book of Changes

Book of Odes

Book of Rites

Borders

Brazil

British, the

Buddhism

in China

Bukhara

Byron, Robert

Byzantine empire

Caesar, Julius

Canada

Carrhae, battle of (53
BC
)

Caspian Sea

Caucasus, the

Central Asia

time line

see also
names of countrie

Chaldean Church

Changan (Xian)

palace ruins

see also
Xian

chariots

Charklik (Ruoqiang)

Charlemagne, emperor

Chatyr lake

Chechens

Chechnya

Cherchen (Qiemo)

salt plateau of

Chiang Kai-shek

Chilamachin

China

journey in

time line

Chinese (outside China)

Chingiz (builder)

Chinon

Christianity

in Antioch

in China

in modern Iran

and Mongols

Chrysostom, St John

Chychkan river

Cicero

Cizre

Cleopatra

Cologne cathedral

Columbus, Christopher

Communism

compass, the magnetic

Confucianism

Confucius

Conrad of Montferrat

Constantine the Great, emperor

Constantinople

Crassus, triumvir

Crete

crossbows

Crusades

Cultural Revolution

Cyrus, King of Persia

Czechoslovakia

Da Qin

Dalai Lama

Damascus

Damghan

Daniar (Kyrgyz)

Daniel (builder)

Daphne, groves of (near Antioch)

Dasht-e-Laili

Demavend, Mount

Deng Xiaoping

Deobandi schools, Pakistan

Dharamsala

Dokuz Khatun

Dolkon (Uighur)

Dost Mohammed, King

Dostum, Abdul Rashid

Dowlatabad

drugs

Dubs, Homer

Dudayev, General

Dunhuang

East Turkestan Islamic

Movement

Edward I, King of England

Egypt

Eighth Imam (Shia)

Elburz mountains

Eleanor of Castile, queen

Elnura (Kyrgyz)

England

English language

Euclid

Euphrates

Europe

Fatima (daughter of Mohammed)

Feng (Hui)

Fergana

Fergana valley

Firdausi

Shahnama

tomb

First Pass under Heaven, The

Fitzgerald, Edward

Flanders

Fraser, James (British traveller)

Friendship Bridge

Friday Mosque, Herat

Gang of Four

Gansu corridor

Gate of Sorrows, Jiayuguan

Gawhar Shad, queen

mausoleum of

Gawhad Shah mosque and college, Herat

Gawhar Shad mosque, Meshed

Gazargah

Gazur Khan

Gelia (artist’s wife)

Genghis Khan

Germans

Germany

al-Ghazali

Ghorid dynasty

Gobi desert

Goes, Bento de

Golden Horde

‘Golden House’, Antioch

Golmud

Goths

Great Game

Great Leap Forward

Great Wall

Greece

Gromov, General

Guanyin (goddess)

Guarong (Song Guorong)

Gul (Uighur)

Gulag

Gulja

Guma

Gumbaz mosque, Namangan

gunpowder

Gutenberg

Gwelin

Hafizullah (Afghan)

Hairatan

Hakkari

Hamed

Han

Hangzhou

Hari river

Haroun al-Rashid

Hasan-i-Sabah

Hazara

Hazrat Ali shrine, Mazar-e-

Sharif

Heavenly mountains
see
Tian

Shan mountains

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin

Helena, St

Herat

Herodotus

Hindu Kush

Hinduism

Homs

Hongming (film-maker)

Horses

Hu Ji (historian)

Huang

Huangling

Huatuguo

Hui

Hulagu, emperor

Hunan

Huns 70 134

Husain Baiqara, sultan

Hussein (Iranian acquaintance)

Hussein (son of Caliph Ali)

Hussein, Saddam

Ibn BattutaId Kah mosque, Kashgar

Ilkhanid dynasty

India

Indians

Innocent IV, Pope

Inventions, Chinese

see also
crossbows, stirrups

Iran

journey in

time line

see also
Iran-Iraq war

Iran-Iraq war

Iranian Azerbaijan

Iraq

see also
Iran-Iraq war

Isfahan, Qadi of

Islam/Muslims

in China

see also
Mevlevi sect;

Naqshbandi sect; Shia; Sunni Ismail, 281, 282

Ismailis
see also
Assassins

Israelis

Italy
see also
Romans; Rome

jade

Jade Gate

Jade Road

Jafar (trainee doctor)

Japan

Jaxartes (Syr Darya) river

Jelaleddin Rumi

Jerusalem

Crusader king of

Patriarch of

Jesuit missionaries

Jesus Christ

Jews

Jiahuang (painter)

Jiayuguan

Jielu

Jiuquan

Jumgal valley

Justinian, emperor

Juvenal

Kabul

Kalan minaret, Bukhara

Kanikay

Karakoram

Karakoram mountains

Karakoram Highway

Karimov, President of

Uzbekistan

Karzai, President of Afghanistan

Kashgar

Kazakhs

Kazakhstan

Kekemeren river

Kenkol ravine

Kerbela, battle of (
AD
680)

Keriya

Khameini, Supreme Leader, Iran

Khan, Ismail

Khan family, Bukhara

Khatami, President of Iran

Khoja Parsa shrine, Balkh

Khomeini, Ayatollah

tomb of

Khorasan

Khotan

Kitbogha

Kizilkum desert

Kiziltepe

Kochkor

mazar
near

Kochoi, tomb of

Kokand

Koran

Korea

Koreans

Kublai Khan, emperor

Kuchi

Kun Lun mountains

Kunduz

Kurds

Kushans

Kyanizyak-khatun, princess

Kyrgyz

Kyrgyzstan

journey in

Labrang

Living Buddha of

Lady of the Silk Worms (Lei-tzu)

Lanchou University

Lanzhou

Lao-tzu

Lattimore, Owen

Lei-tzu
see
Lady of the Silk

Worms

Lenin (village)

Lenin, V.I.

Lhasa

Li Bai

Li Peng

Lijian

Linxia

Living Buddha of Labrang

Living Buddha of Tianshui

Lop desert

Lou Guan Tai

Louis, St, King of France

Lucan

Macartney, George

Magi

Mahdi
see
Twelfth Imam/the

Mahdi

Mahmoud (builder)

Mahmoud of Gazni, sultan

Mahmud Kashgari, tomb of

Mahmuda (Uzbek woman)

Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Maimana

Maimundiz

Malekshah, sultan

Mamelukes

Manas (Kyrgyz national hero)

Manas air base

Manchus

Mangnai

Manicheism

Mansur (student)

Mao Zedong

Maracanda

Maragheh

Mardin

Margilan

Masihi, Artur (church caretaker)

Massoud, Ahmed Shah

Matisi temples

Matthew, St

Mazar-e-Sharif

Mazinan

Mecca

Médecins Sans Frontières

Medina

Mediterranean

Merv

Meshed

Mesopotamia

Mevlevi sect

Mexme, St

Miandasht

Mianeh

Ming dynasty

Mingzhao (daughter of Hu Ji)

Mir-i-Arab, Bukhara

Mir Sayyid Ali

miscegenation

Mobin (driver)

Moguls

Mohammad Jahi

Mombasa

Mongolia

Inner

Mongols

Moscow

Mouli (teacher)

Mount Demavend

Mount Qiao

Mount Sipylus

Muhammad, Prophet

Mujahidin-e Khalq

murals, Chinese

Buddhist

Sogdian

Muslims
see
Islam/Muslims

Namangan

Namangani (guerrilla chief)

Naqshbandi sect

Naryn

Naryn river

Nasir ad-din Tusi

National Minority People’s

University (Lanzhou)

nationalism and identity

NATO assistance force

Navoi

Navoi, Alisher

Nazira (caretaker)

Nepal

Nestorians

Nestorius, patriarch of

Constantinople

Nishapur

Niya

Nizam al-Mulk

Northern Alliance

Nurana (Kyrgyz girl)

Nuwa (goddess)

Oljeitu, sultan

mausoleum of

Omar, caliph

Omar, Mullah

Omar Khayyám

Rubáiyát

grave of

One Child policy

Orontes river

Orumiyeh (town)

Orumiyeh lake

Osh

Osman (taxi-driver)

Ostrovsky, Nikolai

Oxus river
see
Amu Darya/Oxus river

Pahlavi shahs

Pakistan

Pakistanis

Palestine

Palmyra

Pamir mountains

Panchen Lama

paper

Paris

Paropamisus mountains

Parthia

Parthians

Pasargadae

Pashtuns

Pass to the West

Paul, St

Pax Mongolica

Persia

Persian Gulf

Persians

Peter (Sinologist’s agent)

Peter, St

Petrovsky, Nikolai

Philip of Montfort

Philippe le Bel

pilgrimage

Piyada, Hajji

Place of Drumbeats

Pliny

Polo, Marco

Polo brothers

Pompey

Portuguese, the

Prester John

printing

Production and Construction

Corps, Xinjiang

Pure Land of the Amithaba

Qadamgah

al Qaeda

Qajar

Qala-i-Jangi

Qazvin

Qezelabad

Qianlong, emperor

Qiao, Mount

Qilian mountains

Qin dynasty

Qin Shi Huangdi, emperor

terracotta army

tomb

Qing dynasty

Qinghai

Qinling mountains

Qizil Uzun, gorge of

Queen Mother of the West

Qum

Qumrabat Padshahim

Qusam ibn Abbas

Rabia Balkh

Rawak

Raymond of Tripoli