Asian Art
Barha Tegin (665 - 680 CE) was the first ruler of the Turk Shahis. He is only known in name from the accounts of the Muslim historian Al-Biruni and reconstructions from Chinese sources, and the identification of his coinage remains conjectural.
Bamboo in the Four Seasons.
French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies.
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