(Proceedings of the International conference Baku, November 28-29, 2008) Samarkand-Tashkent 2009.

This compilation presents the proceedings of an international academic conference entitled ‘The Strabo Route as a Part of the Great Silk Road’, which took place in Baku on 28-29 November 2008. The conference was launched at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences as a part of a larger international project aimed at complex studies of the issues related to the functioning of the first transcontinental trade route in the history of the world.

CONTENTS

Alimova Dilorom, Rtveladze Edward, Abdurasulov Ulfat (Uzbekistan)

Central Asia-Transcaucasia-Rome: of the significance of the Amudarya water route via the Caspian sea to Transcaucasia

Farda Asadov (Azerbaijan)

The Rus' on the Caspian Sea and on the Great Silk Road in the middle of 9th - beginning of 10th century

Ilyas Babayev (Azerbaijan)

Archaeological traces of the Great Silk Road in Azerbaijan

Murtazali Gadjiyev (Russia, Dagestan)

Strabo on the caravan trade of the Aorses

Qoshqar Qoshqarli (Azerbaijan)

Strabo Route studies in Azerbaijan

Omar Davudov (Russia, Dagestan)

The Caspian inshore trade routes and archaeological materials

Vilayat Kerimov (Azerbaijan)

Architectural monuments of the north-west province of Caucasian Albania on the Great Silk Road

Sergey Klyashtorniy (Russia)

The Road to Serindia: The itinerary of Strabo-Apollodorus and the Periplus of the Southern Seas

Rauf Melikov (Azerbaijan)

On the participation of the tribes of ancient Azerbaijan in international trade

Irada Najafova (Azerbaijan)

Strabo on the role of the Caspian Sea in international trade

Marek Jan, Olbrycht (Poland)

Strabo and the mysterious Ochos - rivers of Central Asia and northeastern Iran in antiquity

Shakir Pidayev (Uzbekistan)

Commercial and cultural connections of Bactria-Tokharistan with Khorezm (Antiquity and Middle Ages)

Claude Rapin (France)

Strabo on the trade route from India to the Pont Sea:

Between the mirage of cartography and the reality of archaeology

Maya Rasulova (Azerbaijan)

Numismatic information about the Transcaucasian arterial route

Sevda Suleymanova (Azerbaijan)

”The Caspian Gates” in the Albanian province of Lpinia

Yusuf Yakubov (Tajikistan)

Strabo on the rocks of Sogdia and Bactria during the time of Alexander of Macedonia's invasion