Search results for "Steppe" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • have had Altaic origins, whose northern Mongolian Steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia, and China. ...
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  • Polissya (woodland and marsh), the forest-steppe, and the Steppe. The Polissya ... highlands and frame houses in the forest-steppe. Kievan Rus urban centers ...
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  • An arid region of high scrubland and desert steppe, the canyon and wider basin average 8 inches (20 cm) of rainfall annually; the park averages ...
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  • Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected ...
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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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  • The Doukhobors or Doukhabors ( Духоборы , Dukhobory), earlier Dukhobortsy ( Духоборцы ) are a Christian group of Russian origin. ...
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  • third century B.C.E. they controlled a vast steppe empire extending west as far as the Caucasus. They were active in the areas of southern Siberia ...
    37 KB (5,668 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
  • Catalonia is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. It covers an area of 12,399 square miles (32,113 km²) and has an official population ...
    38 KB (5,664 words) - 19:12, 29 November 2023
  • in Siberia. These plains are predominantly steppe to the south and heavily ... mixed forest, broadleaf forest, grassland (steppe), and semidesert (fringing ...
    137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
  • is a collective term for various non-Chinese steppe tribes during the period from the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E. -22 C.E.) to the Northern Dynasties ...
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  • on the military policy of dominating the central steppe. Like the earlier Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty (along with Turkic allies) conquered and subdued ...
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  • connects through the Kazakh border to the Eurasian Steppe which has been an artery of communication between East and West since the Neolithic through ...
    89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
  • The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd ...
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  • origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia, and China. The adoption ...
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  • The extreme southwestern corner has a semi-arid mid-latitude steppe climate. This region is somewhat drier than other parts of southern Manitoba ...
    41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
  • East and south of the Atlas Mountains, scrubby steppe and desert vegetation is found, including date palms. ==History== Archaeological evidence ...
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  • She went by train over the Kazakh Steppe, through areas hard hit by famine, to Tashkent and Bukhara and to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan ...
    42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
  • might indicate that it took place on the steppe around Nukhashashe, but this remains mere speculation.Redford, 2003, 234 In his thirteenth campaign ...
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  • where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. ===Fauna and flora=== Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination ...
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  • Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest in the world. It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078 ...
    44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024

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