Meaning of Transcaspia | Babel Free

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The name used from the second half of the 19th century until 1924 for the section of Russian Empire to the east of the Caspian Sea.

historical

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Examples

“[I]f we consider the extraordinary facility of communication produced, partly by the railway laid down in Transcaspia, partly by the opening of the road between Bokhara, Merv, and Sarakhs, we may well anticipate the unusual development which the Russian trade[.]”

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