Russian conquest of Central Asia
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"The Great Game" was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the nineteenth century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia. Russia was fearful of British commercial and military inroads into Central Asia, and Britain was fearful of Russia adding "the jewel in the crown", India, to the vast empire that Russia was building in Asia. This resulted in an atmosphere of distrust and the constant threat of war between the two empires.
See also
- Durand Line
- Russian conquest of Central Asia (a longer history including the Great Game)
- The New Great Game
- Sykes-Picot Agreement
- Treaty of Kars
- Diplomacy of the American Civil War
- Afghanistan–Tajikistan border
- Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border
- Afghanistan–Turkmenistan border
- China–Tajikistan border
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