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…Being located on the border between Asia and Europe, it has played an important role in East-West transportation since ancient times, and especially in the Middle Ages, it was the main trade route for goods from Asia. For a long time, the Turkic Khazar people who lived on the northern coast played the role of intermediary merchants between Islam and Northern Europe via the Caspian Sea and the Volga River, and its capital Atir (also called Itil, about 15 km upstream from present-day Astrakhan), near the mouth of the Volga River, flourished as a trading center. …

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…アジアとヨーロッパの境に位置するため，古来東西交通上重要な役割を演じ，とくに中世にはアジアからの商品の主要通商路となった。長らく北沿岸に住むトルコ系ハザル族がカスピ海とボルガ川を通ってイスラムと北欧諸国の仲介商人としての役割を果たし，ボルガ河口に近いその都アティル(イティルとも呼ばれた。現在のアストラハンの約15km上流)は貿易の中心地として栄えた。…

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