Uzbekistan
Ancient Greece
The Mystery of Alexander the Great and the Dried Up Aral Sea
Alexander the Great's empire spanned an enormous land mass, encompassing much of the Mediterranean and parts of the subcontinent, but there still exists a mystery around the Aral Sea, a now-dried up inland sea which historians are uncertain whether...
Diaspora
The Proud Greeks of Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Tucked away among Central Asia’s rolling deserts and sand dunes in the eastern part of Uzbekistan is a small community of people who are the living vestiges of Cold War politics, the Greeks of Tashkent.
By Christianna Kontou
A Greek diaspora...