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Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life by Klaus Wagenbach (1984), p. 209 and Kafka Bildarchiv. P… · Public domain
Figure Prague / Austria-Hungary thinker

Franz Kafka

1883 CE – 1924 CE · 41 years

Alienation, bureaucracy, and genius — how a Prague insurance clerk wrote the most unsettling literature of the twentieth century, then asked his best friend to burn it all.

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Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Figure · Germany

Richard Wagner

1813 CE – 1883 CE

Conflict

Russian Conquest of Central Asia

1839 CE – 1895 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Xinjiang

Founded 1914 CE · attested to 1945 CE

Figure · Prussia / Germany

Otto von Bismarck

1815 CE – 1898 CE

Conflict

Basmachi Movement

1916 CE – 1934 CE

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1916 CE Basmachi Movement 1883 CE Mandinka Wars (Samori Ture's Resistance) 1883 CE Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood 1884 CE Sino-French War 1885 CE Northwest Rebellion 1886 CE Samoan Civil Wars

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Thimlich Ohinga Landmark · Africa 1400 BCE – 1900 CE Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Panama Canal Route Trade route · Americas 1914 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Derinkuyu Underground City Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1923 CE Iran Polity · Middle East Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE
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