Svat Soucek (full name Svatopluk Souček) is a Czech-American historian. He is a compiler and author of works in relation to Central Asia, and Central Asian studies. He was born in Prague and has a PhD in Turkish and Arabic studies from Columbia University. He worked in the Oriental Division of the New York Public Library,[1] and as a professor of history at Princeton University, specialising in historical cartography.[2] His works include Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus (1996), A History of Inner Asia (2000), The Persian Gulf: Its Past and Present (2008), and The History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks (2012).[3]
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Levi, Scott (2001). "Review of A History of Inner Asia". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 44 (1). Brill: 84–86. JSTOR3632563.
Christian, David (2002). "Life along the Silk Road, and: A History of Inner Asia (review)". Journal of World History. 13 (2). University of Hawaii Press: 493–495. doi:10.1353/jwh.2002.0031. S2CID161339101.
