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Found a large album for Khujand, which is in Tajikistan's north. KHUJAND & VICINITY, TAJIKISTAN:                        
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We all know if Japan removed the pixelated genitals no one would ever bother talking about any other country
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Nov 6, 2019 07:11
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This thread owns, I’ve never seen most of these places and they look cool. Thanks, op. 
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Nov 6, 2019 07:24
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Accretionist posted:pics This is great. There's something about the spartan Soviet architecture, elusive "barren" landscapes, and culture that fascinates me.
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Nov 6, 2019 07:52
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Accretionist posted:ALMATY (THE "BIG APPLE"), ALMATY REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: SLC looking good
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Nov 6, 2019 07:55
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OP post something about Samarkand. It used to be this near-mythic far off place everyone had heard of but no one had been to.
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Nov 6, 2019 11:19
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Are these places being road and belted yet or is that still in the future?
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Nov 6, 2019 11:23
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Mooey Cow posted:OP post something about Samarkand. It used to be this near-mythic far off place everyone had heard of but no one had been to. Like "New Jersey" or "Milwaukee" to most people 
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Nov 6, 2019 11:44
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Hey these pictures are super nice, are these all yours? If so how long did these all take to get
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Nov 6, 2019 11:49
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https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/08/06/asia/turkmenistan-president-gateway-to-hell-intl/index.htmlCNN posted:Turkmenistan's repressive president is alive, well and has been driving stunts around a flaming pit nicknamed the "Gateway to Hell," according to recently released footage following rumors that he had died. 
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Nov 6, 2019 12:55
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Empty Sandwich posted:https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/08/06/asia/turkmenistan-president-gateway-to-hell-intl/index.html Taking a page from Vladimir Putin, I see.
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tpink posted:This thread owns, I’ve never seen most of these places and they look cool. Thanks, op.
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Nov 6, 2019 17:18
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Barudak posted:Hey these pictures are super nice, are these all yours? If so how long did these all take to get This is me irl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE&t=19s
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Nov 6, 2019 17:24
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Giant_Pupils posted:It borders Ukraine and I liked the picture. C'mon dude. This is another reason why people hate Americans. Edit: Also I dated a super hot Tajiki girl who kept referring herself as Persian since they speaks some sort of Farsi there. Idk.
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Nov 6, 2019 18:13
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I've always been fascinated by the Taklamakan desert for some reason, it's just this bowl of sand in the middle of asia.
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Nov 7, 2019 13:19
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I'd love to visit some day! Here's a cool twitter account focused on pics from the old silk road (not only from Central Asia): https://twitter.com/PicsSilkRoad Article with pics from Tashkent metro: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191029-an-underground-world-of-soviet-opulence Many years ago there was a really great thread here with a story and pics of a guy who did a London-Ulaanbataar rally drive with his dad in a tiny shitbox car: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2168901
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Nov 7, 2019 13:42
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Glenn Quebec posted:This is another reason why people hate Americans. Tajikistan is like Iranian Austria or something.
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Nov 8, 2019 03:41
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I also have no idea what Uzbekistan looks like. HISTORIC DISTRICTS, SAMARKAND, SAMARKAND VILAYAT, UZBEKISTAN:         There we go!
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Nov 8, 2019 05:32
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Turns out that from 1868 to 1924, most of Uzbekistan was Russian territory. 1910s, SAMARKAND, SAMARKAND OBLAST, RUSSIAN EMPIRE:      I think that one dude's using an entire goat for a water skin.
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Empty Sandwich posted:https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/08/06/asia/turkmenistan-president-gateway-to-hell-intl/index.html The previous "president" (for life) of Turkmenistan was a big piece of work too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov quote:*In February 2004, he decreed that men should no longer wear long hair or beards.[39] edit: he did ban lip syncing and ballet, so maybe +?
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The color photos from Samarkand is a beautiful collection, and "waste no part of the goat" waterskin guy was clearly born too early to be a tech disruptor.
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Charles posted:The previous "president" (for life) of Turkmenistan was a big piece of work too. He also wrote a "Chicken Soup for Dear Leader" style book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhnama quote:Niyazov issued the work's first volume in 2001, saying it would "eliminate all shortcomings, to raise the spirit of the Turkmens".[6] In 2004, Niyazov issued a second volume, covering morals, philosophy and life conduct. The book was a substantial part of Niyazov's personality cult and his administration's policy of Turkmenization. The government required bookstores and government offices to display it prominently—and mosques to keep it as prominent as the Qur'an.[7] After some imams refused to comply with this demand, alleging that compliance would be blasphemous, the state reportedly demolished such mosques quote:There is an enormous mechanical statue of the book in Ashgabat, the country's capital. Each evening at 8:00 pm, the cover opens and a recording of a passage from the book is played with accompanying video.[14] quote:Knowledge of the text (up to the ability to recite passages from it exactly) is required for passing education exams, holding any state employment and to qualify for a driving license. quote:In March 2006, Niyazov was recorded as saying that he had interceded with God to ensure that any student who read the book three times would automatically get into heaven. quote:In 2013, the Ruhnama was removed from public schools.[4] The following year, president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow declared that all Turkmen universities would no longer test applicants on their knowledge of the book.[5] I found PDFs of both volumes here: https://inteltrends.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/ruh_1.pdf https://inteltrends.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/ruh_2.pdf https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1176 some blog posted:Rukhnama: Reflections on the Spiritual Values of the Turkmen is my favorite dictatorial opus. In addition to more Turkmen geneaology that you could possibly imagine, there are little parables that I am still pondering the meaning of, such as:
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Central Asian dictators are the best dictators.
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Nov 8, 2019 08:35
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this site has a lot of cool old photos from Central Asia from over 100 years ago https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rare-color-pictures-russian-empire-1905-1915/
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I was in Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan in 2015, would recommend. Not being from thé Midwest, thé wideness and openness of the steppes was very impressive. The old cities were lovely, but the days of the silk Road are long gone and they're very sleepy nowadays. We had a real cool guide who had thé cops deliver vodka tot our bus, chased away the gypsies and showed us all thé famous madrassahs, built by Ulug Bech, grandson of Timur Lenk. I'll der if I have any interesting pics.
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Glenn Quebec posted:This is another reason why people hate Americans. Tajik is essentially the same as the Dari you find in Afghanistan, and that's really just Persian (or "Farsi" if you want, which just means "Persian" in Persian) but an eastern dialect with some differences from the variant spoken in Iran. Both of them can trace their development back to the 9th and 10th century Persian literary revival which established the written Persian language as we know it today written in the Arabic alphabet and with many Arabic loanwords. Persian/Dari spread through eastern Iran, Central Asia and India as it was patronized by the various Turkic dynasties who ruled the region from roughly the 10th century onwards as a literary and adminstrative language, and in some places came to be adopted as the language of the population at large (whereas languages in other places just absorbed alot of Persian loanwords and grammatical influences, such as Urdu, which is what separates it from Hindi). It's a pretty common popular misconception that the earlier Persian Sassanid or Achaemenid empires were responsible for the spread of the Persian language eastern Iran and Central Asia, but both of those had very tenuous control over this area (where related but distinct Eastern Iranian languages were spoken, as opposed to Persian which is a Western Iranian language) and the latter didn't even use Persian as an administrative language. "Tajik" has a bit of a funny etymology. It comes from the Persian word for "foreigner" and was used by Turks to refer to non-Turks. So "Tajikistan" basically means "Foreigner-land".
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Nov 8, 2019 12:55
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I've got a bunch of photos from when I went to the Republic of Georgia, does that count as Central Asia?
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Whorelord posted:I've got a bunch of photos from when I went to the Republic of Georgia, does that count as Central Asia? No that's not Central Asia. Though I'm sure people would like to see the photos anyway.
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Nov 8, 2019 13:29
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Play posted:I've seen something like that in Santiago, Chile (or at least it looked similar). The mountain ranges on all sides essentially creates a bowl where smog just continually lurks like some sort of evil soup. Going up the elevator of a large building you'll cross right through that barrier and be totally amazed that you were just in that disgusting morass. You ever been hiking on the mountains around Santiago? I've hiked them almost all and there is no bigger example of this than when you are 2km above city level, looking out and you can see perfectly well the peaks in the distance but can barely make out the buildings below amid the disgusting smog we breath every day.
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I love these kinds of threads. There are some ancient geoglyphs in northern Kazakhstan very similar to the Nazca lines and the one in England.  https://www.livescience.com/47954-geoglyphs-discovered-in-kazakhstan.html Unforunately I don't really know a lot about central asia so I can't really contribute much to this thread. Oooh, I found an english language kazakh site with a short but informative video too: https://kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/culture/page_185058_expedition-following-the-footsteps-of-ancestors-studied-torgai-geoglyphs Valko fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Nov 8, 2019 15:05
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Romania should be a honorary Central Asian country. We can only hope continental drift does its job.
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Nov 8, 2019 15:09
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Whorelord posted:I've got a bunch of photos from when I went to the Republic of Georgia, does that count as Central Asia? That'd be cool. The Caucasus are close enough.
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gently caress the earth is flat.
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Whorelord posted:I've got a bunch of photos from when I went to the Republic of Georgia, does that count as Central Asia? That's in that awkward area of being simultaneously Middle Eastern and European kinda sorta.
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Grape posted:That's in that awkward area of being simultaneously Middle Eastern and European kinda sorta. Georgia is geographically 100% in Asia due to being on the southern side of the Caucasus, but for "cultural and historical reasons" it's somehow very often counted as Europe, you know despite never really having had much of anything to do with any European country outside of Russia (after Russia conquered it).
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I've always seen it as either of:
But regardless, the Caucasus are close enough. Post em' if you got em'
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Nov 9, 2019 02:20
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Accretionist posted:Turns out that from 1868 to 1924, most of Uzbekistan was Russian territory. Thanks for the Central Asian porn. 
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Nov 10, 2019 17:21
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So did the Soviets **** this area of the world by putting a single industry per country or something like that? I feel like I read that somewhere.
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Huskalator posted:So did the Soviets **** this area of the world by putting a single industry per country or something like that? I feel like I read that somewhere. The Soviets tried to transition Afghanistan towards a widow-based economy.
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Dictatorships have the best/craziest architecture. Turkmenistan's largest city and capital is Ashgabat, which holds the record for highest concentration of white marble buildings. There also many golden statues of Saparmurat Niyazov, former President for Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEdv5WKQmg ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN:     WEDDING PALACE, ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN: quote:The interior of the palace is made in Turkmen style. The center has six rooms for registration of marriage. Three are wedding hall for events, two of which hold 500 and one holds 1000. On the ninth floor of the Palace—in the central part of the "ball"—is the Golden Hall for weddings, called "Shamchyrag".   ALEM CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN:   
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