The Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian studies defines the term Inner Asia as follows:
Inner Asia, or the interior of the Eurasian landmass, comprises in historical terms the civilizations of Central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet, together with neighbouring areas and peoples that in certain periods formed cultural, political, or ethnolinguistic unities with these regions. In the past the Inner Asian world was dominated by pastoral nomadic communities of the great Eurasian steppe, and its history was shaped by the interaction of these societies with neighbouring sedentary civilizations. (Website of the Sinor Research Institute, Indiana, Bloomington).
Thus, Inner Asia is not only a geographic term but even more a cultural-historical term for defining the broader region which led to the emergence of different nomadic populations in Asia. These civilizations and peoples were and are mostly inhabiting the arid steppe areas in the interior of the continent. Their economy was mostly based...
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Zámolyi, F. (2016). Architecture: Nomadic Architecture of Inner Asia. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_10207
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