Central Asia thread

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
>The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
>fucking Turkey
>why

they have great women

What and said.

Most of the famous mathematicians and scientists of the Islamic Golden Age were born and lived in the dense urban centres of Central Asia..

It was extremely important when Silk Road existed, and became a literal who region after it faded away.

pashol nahui suka
t. uzbeki beki hooker in dubai with residence in mumbai

Tajiks are interesting because they're a relic from ancient times, genocided and forced out of their ancient homelands, now clinging desperately to their mountains and fortified cities while waves of people crash and roil around them.

Interesting thing is, there were so many of them and they inhabited throughout Central Asia, there are more Tajiks outside of Tajikistan by a huge margin, and Tajikistan is not a special Tajik place, just the only place that got it's own country.

They were the founders of many of the cities in the region, some they still inhabit today, from Kabul to Bukhara to Ghazni to Samarqand.

There are many definitions for what geographical area is encompassed by central Asia, none of which include the caucasian countries colored on your picture.

Turks are called the locusts of humanity for a reason, user. They pillage, destroy, raze, and largely only exist to be like a malign tumor on civilization. Thousands of years of development, urban growth, agricultural expansion, religious monuments, and economic stability were wiped out in a few short decades by Timur and his ilk. Its honestly saddening.

Why not include the Caucasus though?

Because it's not central Asia, they're literally western Asian or arguably even European.

Caucasus are technically an extension of Western Asia, but they sure as fuck aren't part of Europe regardless either way even if you don't want to count them as part of the Near East.

There's many people who would count Georgia and Armenia as European. I'm not one of them but I understand the logic.

I would never count them as part of Europe. Simple fact of the matter is they are located in Western Asia, and not Europe. Also if we're going by antecedent, I know plenty of people who don't want them to be seen as European, including a Georgian friend of mine. Caucasus is the Caucasus, really.

The Mongols and their Turkic imposters truly were the niggers of history

You mean the chads of history.

This is why everyone hates them yes.
>constantly raped by Russians
>chads

>Simple fact of the matter is they are located in Western Asia, and not Europe.
Weird because when I was in Georgia I remember we crossed a river the guide told us was the boundary between Europe and Asia. So even geographically it's pretty muddy and not clear cut.

What countries do they share the most history/culture with then? Iran?

Greece and Russia.

It’s neither European nor Asian, it’s somewhere in between, like Turkey.

>imagine a world where Russia never formed and no one was there to stomp Mongols and Turks into the dirt
One shudders at the thought.

They were fucked either way because of technology, once firearms became widespread, horseniggers were fucked forever. For example the 18th century Dzungar Khanate was a nomadic empire with roughly the same manpower as the old Mongol hordes but they got blown the fuck out and genocided to the last man by the Qing Chinese.

>Why is this region of the world so useless?

Historically, some of the greatest conquerors come from this region

Based slavs and chinks eradicating the steppenigger menace

Kazakhstan was one of the earlier parts of the Russian Empire and has a large Russian minority. The region was essentially entirely conquered in the 1860's to the 1880's and was one of the regions caught in Britain and Russia's great game. The Russian Empire was for many the first centralised government the very nomadic area had seen. The Empire brought Russian culture, architecture and language to the region which lingers to this day.
After the Russian revolution in 1917 some of Central Asia managed to wriggle free and establish mostly small and short lived states like the Alash Order (not sure if that's the right name) and the area was contested during the Russian civil war and would be conquered again by the soviets. The Soviets secularised the area greatly which is why it isn't very religious today and would see some industrialisation during it. Kazakhstan was used for launch's into space and would store a fair few nukes. Stalin I believe messed with the borders of the region a bit which is why it can look strange on a map. That's all I really know about the region. Aesthetic look under Russia also.

My ancestors.

Russians were being raped by Turks and Mongols long before they ever thought to rebel.

They raped the russians first then the russians finally got their shit together and raped them back.
Besides the russian empire's rule in central asia was pretty decentralized.
Basically local leaders ruled in the name of the tsar.

for Armenia and Georgia that is.
Azerbaijan would be Iran and Russia/Turkey

See, that isn't even necessarily true, though. Though Turkic dynasties like the Ghaznavids, [post-Afrighid] Khwarezmians, and Seljuks did put an end to the Iranian intermezzo, that really only affected the ruling class and not the general quality of life of people in those lands. Often they actually patronized Persian cultural works and were most of the time content to let their subjects be [in Afghanistan not India in Ghaznavid's case]. For example, the Shahnameh, the most Iranian piece of literature ever, was completed under Mahmud of Ghazni's patronage, even if he was a bit of a dick about it.

It was Genghis and especially Timur that did a huge number on the region. Those two specificially, successors such as the Ilkhanate in Genghis' case and Ulugh Beg in Timur's case actually tried to put things back together.

Also, in sort-of defense of the former, though his destruction of Merv was famed, it actually was decently rebuilt later on until Timur permanently destroyed it. Most of his destruction is exaggerated (supposedly killed 1 million people in Nishapur -> persia had an estimated population of 10 million -> 1/10 of persia lived in 1 city?) and since he was pragmatic he didn't quite destroy everything, but his absolute decimation of Khwarezm is still unforgiveable.

t. Timur salt user

Or Russia

>claiming the Turks as the Golden Horde
>ignoring 200+ years of constant anal reaming by the eternal Bydo

Thing is local population not only lost massive amount of people but also their urban centers were ravaged and their elites and intellectuals were destroyed.
Similar things(on bigger scale) happen in Bronze Age collapse and in MezoAmerican population collapse.