Open research questions in Eurasian Exchange Networks
30 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,465 Eurasian Exchange Networks papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
What the literature leaves open
Not much is known about the condition of the Bosporus and Byzantion - the most significant urban centre in the South-Eastern Thrace after the annexation of the last client Thracian kingdom in Bizya and the conversion of Thrace into a Roman province in 45/46 AD.
The Bosporus Strait and Byzantion: Changes after Conversion of Thrace into a Roman Province · 2026 · DOIThe description of his life and activities is supported by a wide range of sources, but the circumstances, motives and results of some of his actions during his most active rivalry with the Kazakh Khans in the Syr Darya region at the turn of the 15th–16th centuries remain incompletely elucidated.
Military and Political Rivalry of Shibanids and Kazakh Khans in the Syr Darya Region: Processes of Ethnic Demarcation in Central Asia in the 15th –16th Centuries · 2023 · DOIAbstract The sudden Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 has been explained by historians in several ways and no consensus about the reason has ever been reached.
Four people stand out from the great number of Wahram's relatives and are documented in the sources: his brother Ormies (Hormezd); his wife, the 'Queen of queens', whose name remains unknown; his concubine, the Christian martyr Qandīdā, who originally came from the territories of the Roman empire; and his son and successor Wahram III (293 AD).
Trevelyan described it better than half a century ago, "the history of a people with the politics left out") is scarcely a new field Its antecedents may be discerned in the works of the Father of History, Herodotus, who enlivened his story of the struggle between East and West with wonderful if not always accurate accounts of the eccentric habits and curious mores of the various ethnic groups who populated the Persian Empire.
For much of the Arab world there is a gap in the literature between Goitein's and Ashtor's works on the Middle Ages on the one hand, and the eighteenth century on the other when northern European companies acquired a strong foothold in the area (Goitein, 1966, 1967; Ashtor, 1978).
Traditionally, no other Luri tribes except the Sagwand (about whom little is known) ranged so far afield; and I suspect that the relative wealth and power of both Bairanwand and Hassanwand before enforced sedentarization, together with their (for Luristan) exceptional degree of political cohesion, were not uncon- nected with the access to more extensive grazing that their flocks enjoyed.
An ethnographic and ecological survey of Luristan, Western Persia: modernization in a nomadic pastoral society · 1974 · DOIIt introduces new materials, offers a coherent typology, and opens up prospects for further research into the weaponry, social struc- ture, and migrations of nomads.
Axes vs. helmets: Review on a new book about weaponry of Eurasian nomads Сергей Скорый, Роман Зимовец, Биметаллические чеканы эпохи скифской архаики в Евразии. Харьков: Майдан, 2025, 112 с., ISBN 978-966-372-949-7 [Sergey Skoryi, Roman Zymovets, Bimetallic pickaxes of the Scythian Archaic Period in Eurasia. Kharkiv: Maidan, 2025, 112 p., ISBN 978-966-372-949-7] (Denis Topal, Chișinău) · 2026 · DOIWhen he realized that the Christian religion was not understood among the Armenians, he found the alphabet, which was the strongest tool to preserve their language and culture for many years, and started a new era.
For further research on the place name of modern Shiraz with what is mentioned in the Achaemenid’s Archives, it was necessary to carried out an archeological survey in this plain.
The problem of the Islamization of Moghulistan as a medieval state in the eastern part of Central Asia which was included in the uluses of Chagatai and Kaidu, remains insufficiently researched in historiography.
The data of the Bukhara, Kokand, and Khiva manuscripts of the above period contain important and insufficiently studied data on sacred geography and the spiritual culture of the peoples of our region.
Written sources about sacred places in the surroundings of the vilayats of Tashkent and Turkestan · 2023 · DOIComparatively little is known about the precise origin of these crucial advances, although the available evidence points to early adoption in East Asia.
The origins of saddles and riding technology in East Asia: discoveries from the Mongolian Altai · 2023 · DOIThe aim of the present article is to pay attention to the King’s forces in the Battle of Cunaxa, and to focus on some aspects of this engagement that have not been addressed or satisfactorily analyzed in the studies to date.
The process of assimilation of the Mongols into the Kipchak ethno-cultural environment should be examined as complex, considering all the indicated factors in connection with the Steppe civilization and the specifics of the Turkic and Mongolian nomadic societies.
Both find correspondences in Balto-Finnic traditions, which allows us to discuss them in the context of previously unrecognised or poorly studied parallels between the Caucasus and Northern Europe.
The so-called “Night Battle” of Singara (344 AD) still remains poorly studied historical event because of discrepancies between the sources.
Arguments in synodical protocols of the Oriental Orthodox Church should be investigated in the context of developing a metropolitan system and an ideology of patriarchate in the Church of Antioch.
Patriarchat i patriarchowie Seleucji-Ktezyfontu. Z dziejów starożytnego Kościoła w Persji · 2012 · DOIThere are several reports in which we see that in many attacks, like Mersad and Ghader, there were insufficient dog-tags to be distributed among soldiers, and most fought without such identification.
The information about the original fort next to the harbour entrance, which defended the chain barring enemy ships from entering the harbour, is scarce.
The Venetian Fortress “Kaštel” in Zadar · 2011The evidence for the existence of various conceptions of such relations constitutive of respectively various collectivities in the ancient Near East is by no means limited to the complicated example of the nation of ancient Israel.
Lack of quantitative data is perhaps the greatest obstacle confronting historians of pre-modern Iranian economy and society, and the Safavid period is scarcely better provided than earlier ages.
The economic state of Ṣafavid Persia has not been extensively studied and much of that which is known is deived from European sources, British, Dutch, and Russian in particular and to a lesser extent from the French, Venetian, Turkish, and Portuguese archives.
But what initial impression did the Arab conquest and Islam make upon seventh-century Byzantine contemporaries? The seventh-century Byzantine sources on Byzantine reactions to the Arab conquest are scarce, inconveniently located, and insufficiently studied.
It is scarcely surprising that the wild tribes which inhabited both sides of the Taurus once more betook themselves to occupations which had been natural to them from the earliest times.
Most-cited papers in Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Initial Byzantine Reactions to the Arab Conquest · Church History · 1969 · 20 citations
- The Aq-qoyunlu And Land Reforms · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies · 1955 · 20 citations
- Silencing the Past · Current Anthropology · 2022 · 18 citations
- Silent partners: archaeological insights on mobility, interaction and civilization in Central Asia’s past · Central Asian Survey · 2020 · 16 citations
- From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46 · Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient · 2023 · 12 citations
- Borders, Territory and Nationality in the Ancient Near East and Armenia · Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient · 1997 · 11 citations
- Ancient Persia and the Caucasus · Iranica Antiqua · 2006 · 9 citations
- The terms and conditions under which English trade was transacted with Ṣafavid Persia · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies · 1986 · 8 citations
- The Volume of Iranian Raw Silk Exports in the Safavid Period · Iranian Studies · 1992 · 7 citations
- Parthian-Armenian Relations from the 2nd Century BCE to the Second Half of the 1st Century CE · Electrum · 2021 · 7 citations
Most recent work
- Azrah: The Endonym of the Hazara People and Its Avestan Origin · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
- ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORIANS' INFORMATION ABOUT THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL ASIA · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
- Զաքարյան և Մահկանաբերդցի իշխանական տների փոխհարաբերությունները (XII դ. կեսեր – XIII դ. վերջեր) · Herald of Social Sciences · 2026
- Voice that wears no name: Phoenix in the Marginalia · Journal of Poetry Therapy · 2026
- Between the Samanids and the Ghaznavids: the Coinage of the Emirs of Bust (10th century) · Eurasian Studies · 2026
- The Role of Nisibis on Rome’s Eastern Border: An Archaeological and Historical Assessment · Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Karatekin Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi · 2026
- The Bosporus Strait and Byzantion: Changes after Conversion of Thrace into a Roman Province · Güneydoğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi / The Journal of South-Eastern European Studies · 2026
- Byzantine Castles on the coasts of Amastris & Bartın in Light of Recent Archaeological Research · Anadolu Araştırmaları / Anatolian Research · 2026
- Axes vs. helmets: Review on a new book about weaponry of Eurasian nomads Сергей Скорый, Роман Зимовец, Биметаллические чеканы эпохи скифской архаики в Евразии. Харьков: Майдан, 2025, 112 с., ISBN 978-966-372-949-7 [Sergey Skoryi, Roman Zymovets, Bimetallic pickaxes of the Scythian Archaic Period in Eurasia. Kharkiv: Maidan, 2025, 112 p., ISBN 978-966-372-949-7] (Denis Topal, Chișinău) · Revista Arheologică. · 2026
- The Archer’s Rings of Azerbaijan as a Symbol of Eastern Aesthetic Tradition · Eminak · 2026
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