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1000 BC |
An Indo-European group of people moved east to live in what later became Xinjiang province of western China. They left well-preserved Caucasian mummies of this age and 1,300 year old texts written in an unknown Indo European tongue. Some evidence showed that they had come from the steppes north of the Black and Caspian seas as the area filled with Iranian immigrants. They settled in the Tarim Basin on the edges of the Taklimakan Desert. They area has also been named Inner Asia, Chinese Turkistan and East Turkistan. The Uighers of Xinjiang sometimes show physical features that reflects Tocharian blood. Links: Black Sea, China, Caspian Sea, HistoryBC 
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1921 Feb 26 |
The Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship was signed in Moscow between representatives of Iran and the Soviet Russia. Both the Soviet Russia and Iran were given full and equal shipping rights in the Caspian Sea along with the right to fly their respective national flags on their commercial vessels. Links: Russia, Iran, Persia, USSR, Caspian Sea
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1978 1996 |
The Caspian Sea rose 8 feet due to what experts believed was an upward thrust of the Earth’s crust beneath the inland sea. Flooding had resulted over an area of 1.5 mil acres that includes 200 oil wells in the western region. Links: Caspian Sea
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1996 Jun 1996 Jul |
In Kazakhstan swarms of locusts threatened 2 million acres of farmland in the Atyrauz and Kokchetav regions and along the Caspian Sea. Links: Kazakhstan, Caspian Sea
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1998 Jul 6 |
Kazakstan and Russia signed an agreement that divided the northern part of the Caspian seabed into Russian and Kazak sectors. Links: Kazakhstan, Russia, Caspian Sea
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2000 May 15 |
A consortium of Western oil companies found a large oil reserve in the northern Caspian Sea off the coast of Kazakhstan. The 480-sq. mile Kashagan field was estimated at 8 to 50 billion barrels of oil. In 2007 it was reported that the Kashagan field contained some 12-billion barrels of oil. Links: Kazakhstan, Oil, Caspian Sea
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2000 Jun 22 |
In Kazakstan some 11,000 seals were reported found dead on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Infectious disease linked to weakened immune systems due to oil-related pollutants were blamed. Links: Kazakhstan, Microbiology, Animal, Caspian Sea
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2000 |
Robert D. Kaplan authored "Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus," a warning of the next potential flashpoint due to the oil-rich Caspian area. Links: Books, Caspian Sea
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2001 Mar 26 |
In Kazakhstan the Caspian Pipeline Consortium began pumping crude oil from the Tengiz field to Novorossiysk, Russia’s Black Sea port. The 990-mile Tengiz-Novorossiysk oil pipeline was owned by Kazakhstan, Russia, Oman and 8 oil companies. Chevron held 15% in the 12-partner consortium. Links: Kazakhstan, Russia, Oil, Oman, Caspian Sea
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2002 Apr 24 |
In Turkmenistan a 5-nation Caspian Sea summit failed to reach agreement on dividing up the oil riches of the area. Links: Turkmenistan, Caspian Sea
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2002 Jun 9 |
Azerbaijan and Russia signed a bilateral accord on the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Links: Azerbaijan, Russia, Oil, Caspian Sea
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2002 Oct 22 |
A ferry carrying 51 people and a shipment of oil sank in rough weather in the Caspian Sea. One report said five onboard the ferry were rescued. The Mercury II freight and passenger ferry was making its way from the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan, heading southwest to the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Links: Kazakhstan, Caspian Sea
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2005 Nov 18 |
Turkey’s energy minister said oil from a U.S.-backed Caspian pipeline has crossed the Turkish border from Georgia on its way to a Mediterranean port for where it will be exported to the West. Links: Turkey, Oil, Caspian Sea
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2007 Jan 2 |
The UN lifted a ban on int’l. trade in several types of caviar from the Caspian Sea. Permission for the export of the expensive beluga variety was not decided. Links: UN, Food, Fish, Caspian Sea
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2007 Apr 7 |
Emergency officials said 247 dead seals have washed up on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan in the past week. Links: Kazakhstan, Environment, Animal, Caspian Sea
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2007 May 2 |
Kazakhstan’s Emergencies Agency said hundreds of dead seals have washed up on its Caspian Sea shoreline in the past several days, bringing the total number of the animals found dead along the shoreline in recent weeks to 832. Links: Kazakhstan, Environment, Animal, Caspian Sea
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2009 Aug 31 |
Turkmenistan President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said a base will be built at the Caspian Sea port city of Turkmenbashi to help "effectively fight smugglers, terrorists and any other forces." Turkmenistan is locked in a dispute with Azerbaijan, on the opposite shore, over several oil and gas fields. Links: Turkmenistan, Caspian Sea
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2012 Apr 16 |
Iran officially launched a $1-billion first phase of an ambitious project to pump water from the Caspian Sea to a city in its vast and expanding central desert. Links: Iran, Caspian Sea
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2013 Jun 28 |
BP, at an official ceremony in Baku, Azerbaijan, confirmed that a new pipeline to bring gas to Europe from the Caspian Sea will go through Greece and then under the sea to Italy, a defeat for a rival project to bring gas through Bulgaria and into Austria. Links: Azerbaijan, Italy, Oil, Greece, Caspian Sea
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2018 Jan 10 |
The Iranian naval destroyer Damavand crashed into a breakwater during a storm, killing two crew members. It sank in the Caspian Sea following the crash. Links: Iran, Ship, Caspian Sea
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2018 Aug 12 |
Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan agreed in principle how to divide up the potentially huge oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea. Links: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Oil, Iran, Turkmenistan, Caspian Sea
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2022 Jun 29 |
The presidents of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan met in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, for a summit to discuss regional cooperation and international issues. The Caspian nations reaffirmed their shared commitment to keep foreign militaries out of the region. Links: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Caspian Sea
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