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  • The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; Kara Kitad; t=西遼|s=西辽|p=Xī Liáo ) existed from 1124 C.E. (Yelü ...
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  • The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; Kara Kitad; t=西遼|s=西辽|p=Xī Liáo ) existed from 1124 C.E. (Yelü ...
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  • Western Regions, establishing the short-lived Kara-Khitan or Western Liao dynasty, they were in turn absorbed by the local Turkic and Iranic populations ...
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  • Samanids, Kara-Khanid Turks, Seljuk Turks, Kara-Khitan, and Khorezmshah before being sacked by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1220. A small part of ...
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  • Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley of south eastern Korea that coalesced out a shifting mosaic of group alliances ...
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  • muddled) origin in actual events. In 1141, the Kara-Khitan Khanate under Yelü Dashi defeated the Seljuk Turks near Samarkand. The Seljuks ruled over ...
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  • , a title used by the rulers of the Kara-Khitan Khanate. Jamuka's ... ===Conquest of the Kara-Khitan Khanate=== Meanwhile, Kuchlug, the deposed ...
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  • The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian War is better known, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her ...
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  • Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...
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  • Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul) generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist and professor ...
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  • The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle ...
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  • Baekje (October 18 B.C.E. – August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally named Sipje, comprised the Three ...
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  • Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...
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  • The Uyghur (also spelled Uygur, Uighur, Uigur; Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; s=维吾尔|t=維吾爾|p=Wéiwú'ěr ) are a Turkic people of Central ...
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  • Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling, where the juggler ...
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  • Khalsa (Punjabi: pa|ਖਾਲਸਾ , literally "Pure") refers to the collective body of all baptized Sikhs. The Khalsa was originally ...
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  • Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky ( Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский ) (December 30, 1942 - October 27, ...
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  • Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке) (November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a twentieth ...
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  • The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into ...
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  • Kyrgyzstan (also “Kyrgyz,” “Kirgizia,” or “Kirghizia”), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked and mountainous country ...
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  • Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in Western Africa. From its 32-mile (51 km) coastline on the Gulf of Guinea ...
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