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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 ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
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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 ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- Western Regions, establishing the short-lived Kara-Khitan or Western Liao dynasty, they were in turn absorbed by the local Turkic and Iranic populations ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- muddled) origin in actual events. In 1141, the Kara-Khitan Khanate under Yelü Dashi defeated the Seljuk Turks near Samarkand. The Seljuks ruled over ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- , a title used by the rulers of the Kara-Khitan Khanate. Jamuka's ... ===Conquest of the Kara-Khitan Khanate=== Meanwhile, Kuchlug, the deposed ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- 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 ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling, where the juggler ...19 KB (3,015 words) - 21:04, 4 October 2022
- Khalsa (Punjabi: pa|ਖਾਲਸਾ , literally "Pure") refers to the collective body of all baptized Sikhs. The Khalsa was originally ...20 KB (3,030 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky ( Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский ) (December 30, 1942 - October 27, ...20 KB (2,721 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке) (November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a twentieth ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- Kyrgyzstan (also “Kyrgyz,” “Kirgizia,” or “Kirghizia”), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked and mountainous country ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂; c. 662 – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured prominently in the ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Nishida_kitaro.jpg|thumb|Nishida Kitaro]] Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō') (1870 – 1945) was ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately 14060000|km2|abbr=on ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद; Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place in 1565, when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer) is a landlocked endorheic (having no natural outflow except evaporation ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Koca Mi‘mār Sinān Āġā (Ottoman Turkish: خوجه معمار سنان آغا) (April 15, 1489 - April 09, 1588), better known simply as ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- 5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, December 12, 1903 – December 12, 1963), an influential Japanese film director, is regarded as one of the masters ...21 KB (3,096 words) - 09:52, 23 May 2023
- Peter Edward Rose, Sr. (born April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former player and manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from 1963 ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 01:04, 24 November 2022
- Tashkent ( Toshkent, Тошкент ; Ташкент , Taşkent ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city was an important ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such characters ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- Taiko (太鼓) means "great" or "wide" "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons, in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over his opponent. ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly of the Soviet Union, surrounded entirely ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for almost ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Tengriism (Tengerism, Tengrianism, or Tengrianizm) was the major belief of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar, Mongolian, Hunnic, and Altaic ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish language ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE, known as Diana Rigg, (July 20, 1938 - September 10, 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her ...38 KB (5,401 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- Turgut Reis (1485 - June 23, 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha ...33 KB (5,326 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2022
- The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Order of St ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, known simply as Nakhichevan, is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- Sergei Mironovich Kirov Серге́й Миро́нович Ки́ров (né Kostrikov; Ко́стриков March 27, 1886 – December 1, 1934 ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- Human subject research may be considered a systematic investigation designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge in which the focus for ...43 KB (6,319 words) - 17:27, 28 September 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Sioux |image=[[Image:Sitting Bull.jpg ...39 KB (6,016 words) - 23:59, 22 November 2023
