Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia, resulting from the dismemberment of the former USSR, whose independence dates back to 1991. The economy of Turkmenistan is based on the extraction of oil and natural gas from the Caspian Sea. Once…
The Silk Road
The designation “Silk Road” was coined by the German geographer Ferdinand voice von Richthofen, in the nineteenth century, a translation of the German Seidenstraße. It corresponded to a set of interconnected trade routes across Asia, the Orient and Europe, creating…