Vahşi Batı Sibirya ve Ruslar
W. Bruce LincolnSözler ve Alıntılar
In February 1220, these forces reunited at Bukhara, the Central Asian center of learning and trade that produced the sumptuous silken carpets which still bear its name. Bukhara in those days was “the cupola of Islam,” a city “embellished with the rarest of high attainments,” in the words of the thirteenth-century Persian chronicler Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malikjuvaini.
Wild gorges, gloomy mountain passes, and the Gobi Desert guarded it from the north. Beyond them stood the Great Wall, the barrier that China’s rulers had raised a thousand years before to protea their people from the ancestors of the Huns that Attila had led into Europe.