Baraq

male, deceased (1271)
Mengu-Timur, Chagatai Khanate, CentralAsia, turkestan, bukhara, Chagatai Khans
Baraq (d. 1271) was head of the "ulus" of the Chagatai Khanate (1266-1271). He was the son of Yesünto'a, and a grandson of Chagatai Khan. Baraq's f...
Peter Middlebrook

Peter Middlebrook

male, 44 years old
right-financing, Transition economy, Public-private partnership, energy, transition, privatisation…South Asia, CentralAsia
Dr. Peter J. Middlebrook (born in Lincoln, U.K., 15 November, 1965) is a leading English political economist/Political Scientist specialising in...

A. V. Williams Jackson

male, deceased (1937)
Columbia University, Columbia, from New York City, linguist, Columbia University alumni, Zoroastrianism…CentralAsia
Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (1862-1937) was an American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages, born in New York City....

Yelü Dashi

male, deceased (1144)
Muslim, Buddhist, seljuk turk, bactria, kashgar, tibet…CentralAsia
Yelü Dashi (耶律大石 Yēlǜ Dàshí or 耶律達實 Yēlǜ Dáshí), or Yeh-Lu Ta-Shih was the founder of the Western Liao dynasty, or the Kara-Khitan Khanate. Yelü...

Vasily Bartold

male, deceased (1930)
Soviet historian, leningrad, soviet, Khazar studies, Anthropologist, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences…CentralAsia, Central Asian Studies
Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (also known as Wilhelm Barthold; in Saint Petersburg - 19 August 1930 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet historian...
Faizullah Khojaev

Faizullah Khojaev

male, deceased (1938)
emir, nationalist, soviet, Victim of Soviet repressions, cotton, uzbek…CentralAsia
Faizullah Ubaidullaevich Khojaev. b.1896 Bukhara-March 1938, Moscow was an Uzbek politician. Khojaev was born in to a family of wealthy traders. He...

Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky

male
military leader, Russian, Russian nobility, Politics of Imperial Russia, Former Muslim, CentralAsia
Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky was a Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia.
Bahodir Sidikov

Bahodir Sidikov

male, 39 years old
postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, From Tashkent, tashkent, Post-colonial theory, caucasus…CentralAsia
Bahodir Sidikov (born July 19, 1970 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a journalist, consultant and researcher in Oriental and Central Asian Studies. He...
Gustav Krist

Gustav Krist

male, deceased (1937)
Travel writer, Austrian, CentralAsia, turkestan, adventure, prisoner-of-war
Gustav Krist (29 July, 1894-1937) Austrian adventurer, prisoner-of-war, carpet-dealer and author. The accounts of his unmonitored journeys, off the...
Cleitus The Black

Cleitus The Black

male
Ancient Macedonian general, Rhoesaces, Spithridates, steppe, Phillip II, battle of the Granicus…CentralAsia
Cleitus the Black was an officer of the Macedonian army led by Alexander the Great. He was son of Dropides and brother of Alexander's nurse,...