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Sample Links related to Central Eurasia
(Central Asia and the Caucasus)
NOTE: If a site has multiple languages (say: RU KAZ ENG), I link to the original language and you can click on ENG for English.
CREECA Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (UW-Madison)
Silk Road Seattle (Internet materials for learning and teaching about the Silk Road)
Oxus (website on Central Asia, including the Central Asian Pages with background material on Central Asian history)
Radio Liberty (news, reports, live broadcasts, country information)
Eurasianet.org (news, links to other sites, country information)
CIA World Handbook (country summaries, maps, and more!)
Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets (includes many Central Asian carpets)
Photos from Central Asia by Prof. Dan Waugh (U. Washington-Seattle), part of Waugh's Central Asia
International Dunhuang Project
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden, The Netherlands)
The Asia Foundation (New York City)
Olga's Gallery (works of Vereshchagin)
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress, a remarkable collection of early 20th century B&W triple prints taken through red, green & blue filters that have been combined digitally to produce modern color images)
Anahita Gallery (19th-early 20th century photographs/postcards and 20th-21st century photographs from Central Asia, highly recommended!)
Peace Corps Friends of Turkmenistan Website
Azerbaijan International Magazine (content & links on Azeri culture, music, and more)
Official Website of the President of Kazakhstan
Khabar (Kazakhstan news agency)
American University in Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan)
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
East Turkistan Information Center (supporters of independence for East Turkistan = Xinjiang in the PRC)
International Committee for Crimea (information and studies on Crimean Tatars, including Celebrating the Life of Ismail Gaspirali)
Kazan Federal University (a leading university in Tatarstan/Russian Federation celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2004, formerly Imperial Kazan University, later Kazan State University)
Official website of the Republic of Tatarstan
Bashinform (Bashqortostan news agency)
[N.B.- I had a series of links for Bashqortostan, but they are not functioning anymore...]
The Times of Central Asia (an on-line news source for all of Central Asia based in Kyrgyzstan)
Human Rights Watch (click for information on Europe/Central Asia)
Amnesty International (select country for information on Europe/Central Asia)
Global Security (please make sure to review a Central Asia-related page, for example the page on Khanabad military base)
Partnership for Peace (NATO's program which includes Central Asian states)
Center for Strategic & International Studies (please make sure to review a Central Asia-related page)
Federation of American Scientists (please make sure to review a Central Asia-related page)
Hizb ut-tahrir (an international Islamist movement that we will discuss later in the semester) [If you are worried about your immigration status in the U.S., perhaps you should not be visiting this site…]
Rand Corporation (please make sure
to review a Central Asia-related page)
Brian G. Williams (Prof.
Williams teaches at U. Massachusetts-Dartmouth, the page on "field
research" has wonderful photos of his travels throughout Central Eurasia)
Central Asian Gateway (development issues in Central Asia)
HyperHistory Online (check out their timelines under "History" and the various historical periods under "Maps")
Karakalpak (lovely website on the Karakalpaks--including photos--developed by two British researchers)
Silk Road Treasure Tours (a travel agency specializing in Central Asia)
***If you know Turkish, there is a huge amount of information available on the internet, too!***
In Turkey there are many (!!!) departments and institutes at universities such as the Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Ege University, Izmir) or non-university based institutes such as IRCICA, which is the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The travel program “Ayna” has episodes on many different countries around the world, including Central Asia. (It is also available in Turkish and English.) Many programs are also on YouTube, including episodes of “Türklerin izinde” (“In the footsteps of the Turks”) in the series “Zaman Yolcusu” (NTV).
Of course all countries have media you can access on-line, including “Kazakh TV”.
REVISED: January 10, 2014
LOCATION: www.turko-tatar.com/links/index.htm
PREPARED BY: Prof. Uli Schamiloglu -- uschamil@wisc.edu