The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur (Classic Reprint)

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N the following pages an attempt is made to gather within a convenient compass the information scattered rough the works of the medieval Arab, Persian, and Turkish geographers, who have described Mesopotamia and Persia, with the nearer parts of Central Asia. The authorities quoted begin with the earlier Moslem writers, and conclude with those who described the settlement of these lands which followed after the death of Timur, - the last great Central Asian wars of conquest, - for with the fifteenth century the medieval period in Asia may be said to come to an end.

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