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, and as a professor of history at Princeton University, specialising in historical cartography. 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).
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