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" Archives: Central Asia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Morrison, Alexander
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AL
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English
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1060682
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ALei1079
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Morrison, Alexander
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Archives: Central Asia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Morrison, Alexander
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(937 words)
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Most archives in Central Asia were established in the Soviet period on the basis of existing collections of documents from the tsarist administration and earlier Central Asian states. These are now the national archives of Kazakhstan (Almaty), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Turkmenistan (Ashkhabad), and Uzbekistan (Tashkent). There are also important collections relating to Central Asian history in St Petersburg, Moscow, Orenburg, Omsk, and Astrakhan in the Russian Federation, and in Tbilisi in Georgia. The most important non-Soviet archives are the Xinjiang provincial archives in Ürümqi, which are normally closed
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Islam.
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