The Kyrgyz and Kyrgyzstan
Tash Rabat, Kyrgyzstan - a stop on the Silk Road (thanks Lonely Planet) Where are the Kyrgyz from? By about 200 BC, the Kyrgyz people were living north of China, [...]
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What is a yurt? Central Asian architecture
Yurts- the houses of Central Asia What do nomads live in? The nomadic people of Central Asia generally lived in yurts, portable houses made of a foldable wood frame with [...]
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Later Central Asian Architecture
Inside the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg (1700s AD) After 1500, architects in Central Asia divided into those who looked west, to Western Europe, for inspiration, those who looked south, to [...]
