Central Asia

Central Asia

Central Asia is a region in Asia. There are different definitions of exactly what Central Asia includes. A delimitation which covers 9,029,000 km 2 or 21% of Asia’s area, says: KAZAKHSTAN (Asian part) CHINA (Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces) KYRGYZSTAN MONGOLIA TAJIKISTAN TIBET (part of China according to the UN) TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN Another delimitation (used by UNESCO) is: AFGHANISTAN (parts of) INDIA (parts of) IRAN (northeast) CHINA (westernmost parts and Xinjiang)…

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Uzbekistan Arts and Literature

Uzbekistan Arts and Literature

Literature Among the Turkmen in Central Asia, the uz cups possess the richest literary heritage. Records of folk poetry exist from the 11th century, and even more popular today are the anecdotes about Nasreddin hodscha, a Turkish To Eulenspiegel. As the Uzbek national call is counted Alisjer Navoi, who in his very extensive love lyric and philosophical poems, among others. in “Hamze” (‘Five Poems’, 1483-85), the Uzbek language’s distinctiveness asserted…

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