Word: bastriana
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...conceptions of Aslatic history have been greatly changed by the fact that languages akin to ours were once spoken on the Western borders of China. Moreover, the artistic remains discovered or unearthed in Chinese Turkestan and Western china have given us the missing links for the transmission from Bastriana (present northen Afghanistan) to the Far East of motifs and types which combine in new formulae Greek, Iranian, and Indian elements...
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