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<strong>Russia</strong> 483<br />
irrigation, trade, <strong>and</strong> commerce give meaning to the whole <strong>and</strong> assure its<br />
survival as an entity. 19<br />
Map of trade routes from Siberia to Bukhara <strong>and</strong> China in XVI – XVIII. – Drawn from: Burton,<br />
Audrey. “Bukharan trade 1558 – 1718.” Papers on Inner <strong>Asia</strong> # 23, Bloomington, Indiana, 1993<br />
In accordance with this <strong>and</strong> some other frameworks, certain parts of<br />
<strong>Russia</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Asia</strong> belong in many respects to the same<br />
civilizational, geopolitical <strong>and</strong> geo-economic space, e.g. Eurasia or<br />
<strong>Central</strong> Eurasia. This point may be proven historically as well as by the<br />
map. 20<br />
19<br />
Richard N.Frye, “The Meaning of <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Asia</strong>, in: Conference on the Study of<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Asia</strong>,” March 10-11,<br />
983, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 1983, pp. 11<br />
– 13; see also the the transcript<br />
of his presentation “Pre-Islamic <strong>and</strong> Early Islamic Cultures in Greater <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Asia</strong>” at seminar “<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Asia</strong> as a Cultural Area”, Papers of Richard Frye,<br />
Harvard University Archives, box 12933<br />
20<br />
See appendix A (<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Asia</strong> in Eurasian context)
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