Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan by Margaret Morton

Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan

Margaret Morton

128 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative mysterious slow-paced
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A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion in the region since the twelfth century, dis...

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