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Together that promises long-term competition by Asia's two largest powers for influence on the small one in between.

Many of the visitors have been from the US, China and other nations long seen as players in the region, but an increasing number are from the Middle East, their visits underlining a dramatic twist in the centuries-old battle between foreign powers for influence, trade, resources and military assets in a strategically sensitive part of the world.

The roots of the "Eastern Question," which involved competition between the great powers, Russia and Britain, for influence over the Ottoman Empire without triggering a great power war, date back to the nineteenth century.

Syria has one-tenth the area of Libya with four times as many people, who are divided along sectarian lines and surrounded by regional powers vying for influence.

In other ways, arrangements for the Iranian's visit demonstrated the differences between the relationships Iraq's new leaders seem likely to have with the two foreign powers contending for influence here.

As regional powers jockey for influence among the Syrian Kurds, though, deep distrust persists between Syrian Kurdish political leaders, and the extent of their influence on the ground is dubious as they try prevent potential clashes between Arabs and Kurds.

The Central Asian country boasts the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves as well as substantial oil resources and now faces an uncertain future with rival factions and outside powers jostling for influence.

Beyond the politics of regional powers vying for influence in the future of the Syrian state, more than 3 million Syrian refugees are engulfing the region.

But in Moscow's power play for influence in Europe, it is hard to separate business from politics.

Other powers now vie for influence: there's a hospital built with Japanese money and construction is under way on a Chinese-funded convention centre.

Mr Putin's visit is a reminder that it is once again becoming a strategic flashpoint in which all the world's great powers are competing for influence.