I am in the process of grouping notes and interlinking them. So links that were here on this page are now being moved to sub pages. So far I have created the following sub pages:

Notes on Afghanistan - Notes on the Mongols - Notes on Ottoman Osman Othman Osmanli - Notes on the Seljuks - The Mamluk

Click here for my new pages on Oriental Rugs

This may seem a liitle odd but this is the way I learn things. I missed Kindergarden so this is my way of playing which of these things belong together.

• Ganja / Gendge, Azerbaijan
• Karabagh province
• Khamseh Province of Persia
• The Khevsurs of Caucasian Georgia
• Meliks of Karabagh province
• The Capture of Shamil
• Sheki Province
• The Talish khanate

People:

• Greeks
  • Antiochus I Soter
  • Euthydemia I and Demetrius I of Balkh
  • Antiochus In Parthia, B.C. 209-5. by Polybius
  • Antiochus III the Great
• Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer
• George Kennan (the elder)
• Muhammad Shaybani Khan
• Timur (Tamerlane)
• The Turkmen
• Arminius Vambery Linguist and Spy
• The Noghai Tartars
• M. Julius Von Klaproth
• Zahiruddin Muhammad Babar
• Vasco da Gama in India

Russian

• Count Michael Tarielovich Loris-Melikov
• Nicholas II., Tsar of all Russia
• Field Marshal Prince Ivan Fedorovich Paskevitch
• Pierre and Emma Cochran Ponafidine
• Skobelev_General Mikhail_Dmitrievich
• Leo Tolstoy Count Lyof Nikolayevich Tolstoi

Lead up to the Venetian Embassy of 1479

Battle of Marj Dabik and the loss of the Mamluk Turkmen Border States

O'Donovan, Edmund - SpongoBongo

Notes on Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur

Diyarbakir Turkey

The Ak Quyunlu White Sheep Turkmen

Uzun Hasan

Timur versus Bayezid

Timur Tamerlane

Vasco da Gama in India

Portuguese in India

The Salar of Western China

• Aga Muhammad Khan Qajar Shah of Persia
• Agha Muhammad Khan Treaty of Turkmanchai Gold Coins
• Birjand Southern Khorasan Province Iran
• Ismail Shah Safavi Shah of Persia
• Kerim Khan Zand
• Shah Ismail Safavi
• Lutf Ali Khan
• Nadir Shah Afshai Shah of Persia
• Nasr Ed-Deen. Shah an Shah
• Bojnurd Quchan Ghoochan and Shirvan
• Darreh Gaz and the Deregez Atock
• Gorgon/Astrabad and the Gorgon River
• Guebre or Zoroastrian
• Khar Province of Persia
• Khorremabad Luristan Province Iran
• Shah Tahmasp

Pakistan

• Khelat Baluchistan Pakistan

Turkmenistan

• Balkan_Serdar_Kyzyl_Arvat
• Darreh Gaz and the Deregez Atock
• Elborz or Alborz Mountains
• Etrek Atrek and Sumbar Rivers
• Geok Tepe Geok Depe
• Kaka, Khivabad, and Lotfabad
• Khwarezm
• Kopet Dagh, Tejun, and Merv
• Merv Oasis, Murghab River, and the Tejun Oasis
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Uzbekistan

• Kerki Bokhara Uzbekistan
• The Khanate of Bukhara
• Khokand Uzbekistan

Things:

• Care and feeding of the Akhal Teke/Tekke Horses from Boulger
• Karez or Qanat System
• Kermes Dye
• Origin of Karakul Sheep Page 445
• Konia Wool in 1890

• On Journeys Between Herat, and Khiva. Page 1
• Merv Oasis Vol II Page 1
• The Road to Merv by Rawalinson Page 182
• The Turkmen by Demetrius Charles Boulger
• Merv, the Queen of the World By Charles Marvin Page 30

Venice

Hispano-Moresque Pottery

Almohad Green Glazed Alhambra Vase

The Alhambra Vase

Khotan Hetian Xinjiang, China

Khotan-Darya River China

Khasi And Jaintia Hills India

Oriental Rugs

The Prophet Mohammed

Berdj Achdjian on Karapinar Rugs