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Authors: Colin Thubron
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