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For generations, villagers have conversed using a unique form of whistled communication they call “kuş dili,” or “bird language” in Turkish.

Sericulture – the rearing of silkworms and production of silk – has been practiced in the Ferghana Valley for well over a millennium.

Admission does not require top grades or impressive exam results, only a few thousand dollars a year—less than many Indian universities.

Television preachers, renowned qawwali singers and prominent politicians with clandestine Sufi proclivities all flock to the garden to sample the ecstatic music.

“Azerbaijan and meykhana exist in parallel. One reflects the other.”

Nursultan Nazarbayev's roots stretch back to a village standing in the shadows of the snow-capped Tian Shan Mountains.

Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, caught his critics off-guard with the decision to hold a snap presidential election.

Farmers in Georgia's highlands have relied on a particular breed, the Caucasian Sheep Dog, to care for their herds.