France was given the right to construct a railway from Tonkin to Lungchow in Guangxi, but the loan was provided by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. In January 1898 Beijing, not happy with the conditions St Petersburg wanted to attach to a new Russian loan,...
by mid-1937 only the small peoples of the north (in February 1937) had been shifted to Cyrillic, although the process had begun for the other North Caucasus peoples and for the small Siberian ethnicities: the Oirot, Khakassy, and Shortsy. The...
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“The concept of ‘city’ is notoriously hard to define” (Childe1950: 3). This initial statement by V. Gordon Childe in his seminal paper on the so-called Urban Revolution is all the more true if we look at urban settings within the steppe environment of eastern Asia. Comparative archaeol...
26 W. Schulz, ' Mitteldeutsch-Siidwestdeutsche Beziehungen in der spatromischen Germanen- kultur,' SchumacherFestschr., 3 9-22. 27 This may be due partly to inadequate explora- tion, partly to thin settlement of an area largely covered with coniferous forest. See H. Zeiss, Bay. Vor...