Pamirs: References & Edit History
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For the Pamirs, T.E. Gordon, The Roof of the World: Being a Narrative of a Journey over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir (1876, reprinted 1994), surveys the area before the setting of boundaries. O. Olufsen, Through the Unknown Pamirs: The Second Danish Pamir Expedition, 1898–99 (1904, reprinted 1969), describes the last European scientific expedition to the Pamirs before they were closed to foreign scientific expeditions for 90 years. N.S. Ginzburg, “A Microgeography of Settlement in the Pamir Highlands,” Soviet Geography, 27(6):398–434 (1986), examines both the abandoned and currently populated settlements in the Pamirs in what was then the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in the U.S.S.R. (now in Tajikistan). V.V. Ginzburg, Gornye tadzhiki (1937), is a classic work of anthropology on the Mountain Tajik of Karatigan and Darvaz. Isidor Levin (ed.), Märchen vom Dach der Welt (1986), is a collection of German translations of folk tales of the Pamir peoples, illustrating their traditions. A useful reference on the geological setting and seismology is J.R. Arrowsmith and M.R. Strecker, “Seismotectonic Range-Front Segmentation and Mountain-Belt Growth in the Pamir-Alay Region, Kyrgyzstan (India-Eurasia Collision Zone),” The Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111(11):1665–83 (November 1999).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Crust in the Pamir: Insights From Receiver Functions (PDF). | Feb 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Historical Geography of the Pamirs. | Dec 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: One Earth - Pamir Alpine Desert and Tundra. | Jun 10, 2024 | ||
| In reference to Benedict de Goes, changed "Spanish" to "Portuguese." | Feb 08, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - World - Pamir, Asia. | Nov 23, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Pamirs, Asia. | Nov 23, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Official Site of Pamirs, Mouantain Region, Asia. | Nov 23, 2010 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Mar 06, 2009 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated; photographs added. | Mar 06, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |