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</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="TheComplexityofHistoricalPolitiesontheTibetanPlateau" class="anchorpoint"></a>The Complexity of Historical Polities on the Tibetan Plateau</h3><p class="paragraph">Start exploring the nature of historical polities with the following introductory essays:
</p><ul class="star"><li><span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="/places/polities/#iframe=http://places.thlib.org/features/24108/descriptions/1229" target="rwikiexternal">Ütsang (Central Tibet) Historical Polities</a></span> by Kurtis Schaeffer</li>
<li><span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="/places/polities/#iframe=http://places.thlib.org/features/24106/descriptions/1228" target="rwikiexternal">Amdo (Northeastern Tibet) Historical Polities</a></span> by Gray Tuttle</li>
<li><span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="/places/polities/#iframe=http://places.thlib.org/features/24071/descriptions/1301" target="rwikiexternal">Kham (Eastern Tibet) Historical Polities</a></span> by Jann Ronis</li>
<li><span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="THLIB-NEWWIN/bellezza/#!book=/bellezza/wb/a2/" target="rwikiexternal">Antiquities of Zhang Zhung</a></span> by John Vincent Bellezza</li></ul><p class="paragraph"><span style="color: white;"> </span></p><p class="paragraph">
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