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- ionAfricaEurasia.png|75px]]Africa-Eurasia |colspan="7" style ... #aaaaaa;" | [[Image:LocationEurasia.png|75px]]Eurasia ...3 KB (334 words) - 19:23, 10 July 2022
- writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian ...822 bytes (108 words) - 22:33, 27 March 2023
- 14060000|km2|abbr=on surrounded by Eurasia and North America. It is known as the coldest of all the oceans. Mostly covered by sea ice throughout ...930 bytes (142 words) - 23:48, 8 February 2023
- and emphasizes the opposition of a united Eurasia against the transatlantic West. ... migration that rocked the great steppe of Eurasia for centuries by geographical ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- Carp is a common name for various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fishes that dominates the fish faunas of Eurasia ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, the Indian subcontinent/South ... cfm?prog=zru Russia & Eurasia Program] *[http://www.carnegieendowment ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- The division of the landmass of Eurasia into the separate continents ... known by various names such as Africa-Eurasia. This produces a four-continent ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- regions (tundra and northern forests) of Eurasia (Scandinavia to Siberia ... tarandus), found in the Arctic tundra of Eurasia, including the Fennoscandia ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- ==Eurasia== ===Asia=== List of Asian countries {|class="wikitable" |+ !Country!!Capital!!Country!!Capital |- |Afghanistan||Kabul ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- ===Eurasia=== Eurasian counties often considered part of Eastern Europe: * Armenia * Azerbaijan * Georgia * Kazakhstan * Turkey ==Geography== ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- native to open steppe land. In the mountains of Eurasia, pikas often share their burrows with snowfinches, which build their nests there (Kawamichi 1984). ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- are found in North America and Eurasia and pheasants and partridges (Phasianidae) are found in Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia. Galliformes ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- meridionalis), which extended through Eurasia and entered North America ... of the woolly mammoth in North America and Eurasia died out at the end of the ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Like carrots, which they resemble, parsnips are native to Eurasia and have been eaten there since ancient times. Zohary and Hopf (2000) note ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- swan (Cygnus olor), which is native to Eurasia, but the trumpeter usually ... genus Cygnus evolved in Europe or western Eurasia during the Miocene, spreading ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- large imperial states pacified enough of Eurasia that trading networks could ... empires, which pacified vast stretches of Eurasia and gained the cooperation ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- Ursidae, it is found in much of northern Eurasia and North America. Other ... seem to prefer open landscapes, whereas in Eurasia they inhabit mostly dense ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- as the largest spawning ground for salmon in Eurasia. There are also many varieties of trout. ==References== * Dolitsky, Alexander B., and Henry ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- known as a raptor) that mainly inhabit Eurasia and Africa. Outside this ... pair with the white-tailed eagle (i Eurasia). A species pair is a group ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- . It was once distributed across southern Eurasia and Africa from Korea to ... The circulation of hunting leopards in Eurasia, Seventh-Seventeenth Centuries ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- present form. Laurasia became North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and the Indian subcontinent ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- in the Late Pleistocene of northern Eurasia and North America. Biol. Rev. 66: 453–562. * Wroe, S., J. Field, R. Fullagar, and L. S. Jermiin ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- Pangea broke up into North America, Eurasia, and Gondwana (originally called Gondwanaland, this area included most of what today are the landmasses ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- of Gondwana. The remainder of modern Eurasia lay in the Northern Hemisphere. Sea levels were high worldwide, and much of the land lay submerged ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 05:54, 25 August 2020
- snout. It was native to the northern steppes of Eurasia, living during the Pleistocene epoch and surviving through the last glacial period. The woolly ...11 KB (1,548 words) - 21:32, 28 April 2024
- species. The black grouse breeds across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. The black grouse is closely related ...11 KB (1,578 words) - 20:47, 28 November 2021
- found in Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits of Eurasia and Africa. The tiny Gazella borbonica is one of the earliest European gazelles, characterized ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- million years ago. They were native to both Eurasia and North America, but the Eurasian species Mammut borsoni died out approximately three million years ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- Category:Anthropologists Mackinder, Halford [[Image:Halford Mackinder.jpg|thumb|right|Halford John Mackinder]] Sir Halford John Mackinder (February ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- component of genetic variation) in Eurasia (after the "Great expansion" from the African continent, which has a cline centered in Arabia ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- to about 60°N, the ocean is surrounded by Eurasia and North America. Its borders ... The Arctic Ocean is surrounded by the land masses of Eurasia (Russia ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- of Gondwana. The remainder of modern Eurasia lay in the Northern Hemisphere ... form. Laurasia became North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- entire range in the high mountains of Central Eurasia. [https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/new-survey-finds-stable-snow-leopard-population ...13 KB (1,840 words) - 19:34, 8 June 2023
- movement of Homo erectus out of Africa across Eurasia about a million years ago. Homo sapiens appears to have colonized all of Africa about 150 millennia ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- final demise of the Irish Elk in continental Eurasia east of the Urals however. Stuart et al. (2004) tentatively suggest that a combination of human ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- China Marches West: The Qing conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 067401684X ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
- Most of the more than 60 species of eagles occur in Eurasia and Africa (del Hoyo et al. 1994). Outside this area, just two species (the bald ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- for the most recent extinctions in Eurasia might have been the result of the inundation of low-lying areas by the sea, he never made any reference ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978 ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- are native to rivers, lakes, and coastlines of Eurasia and North America, in particular the Caspian Sea which borders two major caviar-producing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- sites at which humans emerged, such as Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/01/0111origins.html Discoveries ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- throughout the warmer regions in Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. Cotton remained a fairly minor crop until the invention of the cotton gin ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- via numerous conquests over continental Eurasia, beginning with the conquests ... [[Image:Premongol.png|thumb|right|300px|Eurasia on the eve of the ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- families, members of the Astacidae live in western Eurasia and western North America, and members of the family Cambaridae live in eastern Asia and eastern ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Astana (Kazakh: Астана; former names include Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds comprising the family Podicipedidae, characterized by a pointed bill, short ...15 KB (2,144 words) - 12:22, 24 January 2023
- diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with musicians ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- one that originated possibly around central Eurasia or in (northern) Africa. One or several lineages were present in North America by the Early Pliocene ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- Arctic Circle, which encompasses most of northern Eurasia and North America. The distribution includes Ireland, Europe, parts of Asia, northern India ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:45, 6 September 2023
- northern continents, including North America, Eurasia, and the Arctic, and rainforests held on only in equatorial South America, Africa, India, and Australia. ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- growing natively in the temperate climates of Eurasia, Africa, and North America (Canada, Alaska, Rocky Mountains). One section of the genus (Section ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- They are found in North America and northern Eurasia and are also known as divers (for example, in the United Kingdom and Ireland), being expert diving ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- Asia, and the longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and even to a tiny parasitic ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 13 January 2023
- zone covers extensive areas of northern Eurasia and North America, and is dominated by firs, spruces, and pines, as well as species of larch ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
- distribution throughout temperate Eurasia and North America, based on fertile hybrids that have been produced under captive conditions. Animal ...17 KB (2,513 words) - 23:53, 23 August 2020
- The present Tatar inhabitants of Eurasia form three large groups: * those of Crimea, Bulgaria, European Russia and Western Siberia, Lithuania ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- debut with the group), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958), Jazz Impressions ... * Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958) * Gone with the Wind (1959) Columbia ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- [[Image:Premongol.png|thumb|right|250px|Eurasia before Genghis Khan's conquests, 1200 C.E.]] The eleventh century Jurchen tribes of northern ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- fulfillment in connecting the continent of Eurasia with both Africa and North America as there are major initiatives underway toward constructing ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Premongol.png|thumb|left|220px|Eurasia, circa 1200 C.E.]] ... in the midst of an otherwise authoritarian Eurasia. == Government and ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. Uelen is the closest Russian settlement to the United States. == The "Ice Curtain" border == ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- moth, when introduced into North America from Eurasia, defoliated huge amounts of forest: Over 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of forest each year were ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- North America, but they were widespread in Eurasia and Africa during the tropical ... ape and human lineage first appeared in Eurasia and not Africa. The discoveries ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- |death_place=exile in Georgia (Eurasia) |titles=Confessor, Theologian, Homogoletes |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
- of years ago with a wide distribution across Eurasia. Fossils of the red panda have been unearthed from China in the east to Britain (Parailurus ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- Turks in 1788. This enabled Russia to occupy all of Eurasia from the Baltic to the Black Sea. == Maritime career == John Paul started his maritime ...18 KB (2,783 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024
- The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- , Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo), Eurasia crane or common crane (Grus grus), and gray crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) are not listed ...19 KB (2,899 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- and the total number of continents if Eurasia (Europe plus Asia) is considered a single continent *The number of large geyser fields in the world ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- the Giant Unicorn and the Woolly Rhinoceros in Eurasia. The extent to which climate change or human predation was responsible is debated. Current ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- The Alps ( Alpen ; Alpes ; Alpi ; Alpe ) are a great mountain system of Europe, forming parts of nine nations: stretching from Bosnia and Herzegovina ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- creation of such a route as a crucial link between Eurasia and North America with the potential to change the face of business. The only Arctic ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- *Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
- to decimate populations throughout Eurasia. The Ming Dynasty drove out the Mongols in 1368, and their version of Huguang province was smaller ...22 KB (3,092 words) - 21:04, 7 February 2024
- with about 1,270 species native in Eurasia, about 475 species in 23 genera in Africa, and about 270 species in 50 genera in North America. Particularly ...24 KB (3,750 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- svecica (Red-spotted Bluethroat) of northern Eurasia, have a red spot in the center of the blue bib. Others, such as L. svecica cyanecula (White-spotted ...24 KB (3,401 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Chevron Eurasia, Europe and Middle East Exploration & Production Chevron North America Exploration & Production Chevron Global Gas ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 2023
- globe. The other two-thirds are controlled by Eurasia and East Asia, two equally oppressive (and possibly fictional) super-states, with which Oceania ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- , is situated in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, north of Iran and east ... most ancient proto-human habitations in Eurasia. Remnants of a Stone Age ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- with the harsh winters of inland Canada or northern Eurasia. The nature of the staple food is also significant. Most specialist insect eaters that breed ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- genome with modern humans from Africa and Eurasia shows that 1–4% of modern ... among Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Eurasia," Kuhn and Stiner theorize ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- for the most part seems to have taken place in Eurasia. In the Americas, there was rather an expansion of immigrant lineages of ancestral typical owls. ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 19:47, 20 July 2023
- considered a threat to livestock. In Eurasia and Africa, wolf, brown bear, leopard, tiger, lion, dhole, black bear, spotted hyena, and others ...26 KB (3,786 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- various purposes goes back into prehistory in Eurasia, ranging in size from small rock sculptures to substantial man-made hills of stone (some built ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- globe. The other two-thirds are controlled by Eurasia and East Asia, two equally oppressive (and possibly fictional) super-states, with which Oceania ...28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- seen among sampled Neanderthals from all of Eurasia, and were as different as humans from different continents. A study of the mitochondrial DNA ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- segment of the railway leading to the second Eurasia Continental Bridge. Xinjiang is the largest political subdivision of China, with an area ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from western Europe to India ... of lions spanned the southern parts of Eurasia, ranging from Greece to ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia?" Middle East Policy ... Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia?" Middle East Policy ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- The wild boar was originally found in North Africa and much of Eurasia from the British Isles to Japan and the Sunda Islands. In the north, it ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Using these definitions, mountains cover 33 percent of Eurasia, 19 percent of South America, 24 percent of North America, and 14 percent of Africa ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- up into Laurasia (which became North America and Eurasia) ... African plate with emphasis on the Africa-Eurasia collision.] ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy (Eurasia Publications, 2006, ISBN ... C. Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy (Eurasia Publications, 2006, ISBN ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- between the Americas to the west, and Eurasia and Africa to the east. A component of the all-encompassing World Ocean, it is connected in the ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- Spot,” a cyclonic storm system the size of Eurasia, was discovered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. The storm resembled the Great Red Spot of ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- 000 B.C.E. and into other continents, such as Eurasia.Richard Cordaux and Mark Stoneking, 2003. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180321/ ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 17:50, 14 November 2022
- Death, a massive and deadly pandemic, swept through Eurasia, killing approximately one third of the population (according to some estimates) and changing ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- rifting apart of the North American continent from Eurasia and Africa. Essentially, the area now occupied by the Metacomet Ridge is a prehistoric rift ...33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
