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Central Asia
Central Asia is the vast inland region between the Caspian Sea and western China, including the steppes and the oasis cities of Transoxiana such as Samarkand and Bukhara. It was a crossroads of the Silk Road and the homeland or battleground of many empires, from the Achaemenid and Seleucid empires to the Chagatai, Timurid and Khwarazmian empires. In the nineteenth century much of it was conquered by the Russian Empire.
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