The Caucasian Silk Roads and Eurasian Connectivity, 500-1405 - Trade, Culture, and Warfare in Transit

The book aims to present a history of the Silk Roads in the Caucasus region from the sixth century to the early fifteenth century-the end of the Mongol-Timurid era and the beginning of the Age of Discoveries, which began ushering in shifts in global connectivity. The volume is based on a range of Georgian, Armenian, Western, Arab, and Persian sources that are often neglected in other works on the Silk Roads. The book demonstrates that the Caucasus served as a major highway in connecting the Eurasian steppes with the Middle East and the Black Sea with inner Asia.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Sasanian Iran, Byzantium, and Transcontinental Trade in the 6th century Caucasus.- 3. The Caucasus and Eurasian Silk Roads in 7th-11th Centuries.- 4. Trade Routes in 10th-13th Century Caucasus.- 5. Kingdom of Georgia and Silk Roads in 11th-13th Centuries.- 6. Khvarazmians, Mongols and the Decline of Silk Roads in the Caucasus.- 7. Tamerlane, the Caucasus and Silk Roads.- 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Emil Avdaliani is Professor at the European University in Tbilisi, Georgia. To date, he has authored two books and several articles on the history of the Silk Roads in the Middle East and the Caucasus. Additionally, he has covered geopolitical developments in wider Eurasia, publishing for think tanks.

Product details

• Authors: Emil Avdaliani
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2025
• EAN: 9783031767050
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3176705-0
• No. of pages: 177
• Illustrations: XIV, 177 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Südostasien, Naher Osten, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Geschichte anderer geographischer Gruppierungen und Regionen, Asian History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of the Middle East, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Southeast Asia, History of Medieval Europe, Silk Roads, Late Antiquity, Caucasian silk roads, Eurasian history, historical highways, medieval Asia, medieval trade