A Christmas card from Chinese Turkestan in 1935!
British Consul Eric Teichman spent Christmas of 1935 traveling in the Pamir Mountains. You can read more about Teichman’s travels at https://t.co/nTK423Trzl
Merry Christmas from the Gunnar Jarring Digital Library!
This map of European Turkey from 1828 shows the European areas governed by the Ottoman Empire, including Constantinople and bordering Austria and Russia to the north.
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"Neʤa:tnïŋ jolï" [The Road to Salvation] by Gustaf Raquette is the first specimen from the new printing press in 1912. Earlier prints had been made using a so-called cyclostyle apparatus.
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"Kimiki gůna:h qïilsæ ol kiši šejtanïŋ xïzmεtidε ikεn" [The one who sins is in the service of Satan] from the Kashgar Prints section of the Gunnar Jarring Digital Library!
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From “Монголия и cтрана Тангутов: трехлетнее путешестие в восточной нагорной Азии” [Mongolia and the land of the Tanguts: a three-year journey among nationalities in East Asia] by И. М. Пржевальский.
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From “Монголия и cтрана Тангутов: трехлетнее путешестие в восточной нагорной Азии” [Mongolia and the land of the Tanguts: a three-year journey among nationalities in East Asia] by И. М. Пржевальский.
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From “Монголия и cтрана Тангутов: трехлетнее путешестие в восточной нагорной Азии” [Mongolia and the land of the Tanguts: a three-year journey among nationalities in East Asia] by И. М. Пржевальский.
https://t.co/ppGOXtnMjX
The "last princess of the Kalmyks" from “Seven Journeys Eastward 1898-1912: Among the Cheremis, Kalmyks, Mongols and in Turkestan and to Afghanistan” by Gustav J. Ramstedt.
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The "last prince of the Kalmyks" from “Seven Journeys Eastward 1898-1912: Among the Cheremis, Kalmyks, Mongols and in Turkestan and to Afghanistan” by Gustav J. Ramstedt.
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From “Seven Journeys Eastward 1898-1912: Among the Cheremis, Kalmyks, Mongols and in Turkestan and to Afghanistan” by Gustav J. Ramstedt.
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From “Seven Journeys Eastward 1898-1912: Among the Cheremis, Kalmyks, Mongols and in Turkestan and to Afghanistan” by Gustav J. Ramstedt.
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From “Seven Journeys Eastward 1898-1912: Among the Cheremis, Kalmyks, Mongols and in Turkestan and to Afghanistan” by Gustav J. Ramstedt.
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From “Seven Journeys Eastward 1898-1912: Among the Cheremis, Kalmyks, Mongols and in Turkestan and to Afghanistan” by Gustav J. Ramstedt.
https://t.co/TFvdmnQRaY