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- Roof_of_the_World abstract "For the Doctor Who episode, see Marco Polo (Doctor Who). For the Doctor Who audio story, see The Roof of the World. For the ancient geography of this region, see Mount Imeon.Roof of the World is a metaphoric description of the high region in the world, also known as \"High Asia\", the mountainous interior of Asia.The term is also used for parts of this region, for the Pamirs, the Himalayas Tibet Mt. EverestThe name was first applied to the Pamirs. The British explorer John Wood, writing in 1838, described Bam-i-Duniah (Roof of the World) as a \"native expression\" (presumably Wakhi), and it was generally used for the Pamirs in Victorian times: In 1876 another British traveller, Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, employed it as the title of a book and wrote in Chapter IX: \"We were now about to cross the famous 'Bam-i-dunya','The Roof of the World' under which name the elevated region of the hitherto comparatively unknown Pamir tracts had long appeared in our maps.[...] Wood, in 1838, was the first European traveller of modem times to visit the Great Pamir,\". Older encyclopedias also used \"Roof of the World\" to describe the Pamirs:Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911): \"PAMIRS, a mountainous region of central Asia...the Bam-i-dunya ('The Roof of the World')\".The Columbia Encyclopedia, 1942 edition: \"the Pamirs (Persian = roof of the world)\". Hachette, 1890: \"Le Toit du monde (Pamir)\", French for \"Roof of the World (Pamir)\". Der Große Brockhaus, Leipzig 1928-1935: \"Dach der Welt, Bezeichnung für das Hochland von Pamir\", i.e., \"roof of the world, term describing the Pamir highlands\", and (in translation): \"Pamir highlands, nodal point of the mountain systems of Tien-Shan, Kun-lun, Karakoram, the Himalayas and Hindukush, and therefore called the roof of the world.\"With the awakening of public interest in Tibet, the Pamirs, \"since 1875 ... probably the best explored region in High Asia\", went out of the limelight and the description \"Roof of the World\" has been increasingly applied to Tibet and the Tibetan plateau, and occasionally, esp. in French (\"Toît du monde\"), even to Mt. Everest, but the traditional use is still alive.".
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- Roof_of_the_World comment "For the Doctor Who episode, see Marco Polo (Doctor Who). For the Doctor Who audio story, see The Roof of the World. For the ancient geography of this region, see Mount Imeon.Roof of the World is a metaphoric description of the high region in the world, also known as \"High Asia\", the mountainous interior of Asia.The term is also used for parts of this region, for the Pamirs, the Himalayas Tibet Mt. EverestThe name was first applied to the Pamirs.".
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