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By Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

This booklet offers with the nineteenth century Anglo-Russian nice video game performed out at the territorial chessboard of japanese and north-eastern components of the waning Persian empire. the nice video game itself has been written approximately largely, yet by no means from a Persian perspective and from the viewpoint of the neighborhood avid gamers in that video game. taking a look at the territorial results of the good online game for the neighborhood gamers is a distinct strategy, which merits a different position within the stories of background, geography, politics and geopolitics of the age of modernity.

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