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and emphasizes the opposition of a united Eurasia against the transatlantic West. ... migration that rocked the great steppe of Eurasia for centuries by geographical ...

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 ...

particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, the Indian subcontinent/South ... cfm?prog=zru Russia & Eurasia Program] *[http://www.carnegieendowment ...

The division of the landmass of Eurasia into the separate continents ... known by various names such as Africa-Eurasia. This produces a four-continent ...

regions (tundra and northern forests) of Eurasia (Scandinavia to Siberia ... tarandus), found in the Arctic tundra of Eurasia, including the Fennoscandia ...

==Eurasia== ===Asia=== List of Asian countries {|class="wikitable" |+ !Country!!Capital!!Country!!Capital |- |Afghanistan||Kabul ...

===Eurasia=== Eurasian counties often considered part of Eastern Europe: * Armenia * Azerbaijan * Georgia * Kazakhstan * Turkey ==Geography== ...

native to open steppe land. In the mountains of Eurasia, pikas often share their burrows with snowfinches, which build their nests there (Kawamichi 1984). ...

are found in North America and Eurasia and pheasants and partridges (Phasianidae) are found in Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia. Galliformes ...

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 ...

Like carrots, which they resemble, parsnips are native to Eurasia and have been eaten there since ancient times. Zohary and Hopf (2000) note ...

swan (Cygnus olor), which is native to Eurasia, but the trumpeter usually ... genus Cygnus evolved in Europe or western Eurasia during the Miocene, spreading ...

large imperial states pacified enough of Eurasia that trading networks could ... empires, which pacified vast stretches of Eurasia and gained the cooperation ...

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 ...

as the largest spawning ground for salmon in Eurasia. There are also many varieties of trout. ==References== * Dolitsky, Alexander B., and Henry ...

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 ...

. It was once distributed across southern Eurasia and Africa from Korea to ... The circulation of hunting leopards in Eurasia, Seventh-Seventeenth Centuries ...

present form. Laurasia became North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and the Indian subcontinent ...

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 ...

of Gondwana. The remainder of modern Eurasia lay in the Northern Hemisphere. Sea levels were high worldwide, and much of the land lay submerged ...

snout. It was native to the northern steppes of Eurasia, living during the Pleistocene epoch and surviving through the last glacial period. The woolly ...

species. The black grouse breeds across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. The black grouse is closely related ...

found in Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits of Eurasia and Africa. The tiny Gazella borbonica is one of the earliest European gazelles, characterized ...

million years ago. They were native to both Eurasia and North America, but the Eurasian species Mammut borsoni died out approximately three million years ...

Category:Anthropologists Mackinder, Halford [[Image:Halford Mackinder.jpg|thumb|right|Halford John Mackinder]] Sir Halford John Mackinder (February ...

component of genetic variation) in Eurasia (after the "Great expansion" from the African continent, which has a cline centered in Arabia ...

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 ...

of Gondwana. The remainder of modern Eurasia lay in the Northern Hemisphere ... form. Laurasia became North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into ...

entire range in the high mountains of Central Eurasia. [https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/new-survey-finds-stable-snow-leopard-population ...

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 ...

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 ...

China Marches West: The Qing conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 067401684X ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

are native to rivers, lakes, and coastlines of Eurasia and North America, in particular the Caspian Sea which borders two major caviar-producing ...

sites at which humans emerged, such as Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/01/0111origins.html Discoveries ...

throughout the warmer regions in Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. Cotton remained a fairly minor crop until the invention of the cotton gin ...

via numerous conquests over continental Eurasia, beginning with the conquests ... [[Image:Premongol.png|thumb|right|300px|Eurasia on the eve of the ...

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 ...

Astana (Kazakh: Астана; former names include Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since ...

Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds comprising the family Podicipedidae, characterized by a pointed bill, short ...

diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with musicians ...

one that originated possibly around central Eurasia or in (northern) Africa. One or several lineages were present in North America by the Early Pliocene ...

Arctic Circle, which encompasses most of northern Eurasia and North America. The distribution includes Ireland, Europe, parts of Asia, northern India ...

northern continents, including North America, Eurasia, and the Arctic, and rainforests held on only in equatorial South America, Africa, India, and Australia. ...

growing natively in the temperate climates of Eurasia, Africa, and North America (Canada, Alaska, Rocky Mountains). One section of the genus (Section ...

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 ...

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 ...

zone covers extensive areas of northern Eurasia and North America, and is dominated by firs, spruces, and pines, as well as species of larch ...

distribution throughout temperate Eurasia and North America, based on fertile hybrids that have been produced under captive conditions. Animal ...

The present Tatar inhabitants of Eurasia form three large groups: * those of Crimea, Bulgaria, European Russia and Western Siberia, Lithuania ...

debut with the group), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958), Jazz Impressions ... * Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958) * Gone with the Wind (1959) Columbia ...

[[Image:Premongol.png|thumb|right|250px|Eurasia before Genghis Khan's conquests, 1200 C.E.]] The eleventh century Jurchen tribes of northern ...

fulfillment in connecting the continent of Eurasia with both Africa and North America as there are major initiatives underway toward constructing ...

[[Image:Premongol.png|thumb|left|220px|Eurasia, circa 1200 C.E.]] ... in the midst of an otherwise authoritarian Eurasia. == Government and ...

out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines ...

settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. Uelen is the closest Russian settlement to the United States. == The "Ice Curtain" border == ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...

, Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo), Eurasia crane or common crane (Grus grus), and gray crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) are not listed ...

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 ...

the Giant Unicorn and the Woolly Rhinoceros in Eurasia. The extent to which climate change or human predation was responsible is debated. Current ...

The Alps ( Alpen ; Alpes ; Alpi ; Alpe ) are a great mountain system of Europe, forming parts of nine nations: stretching from Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

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 ...

*Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN ...

to decimate populations throughout Eurasia. The Ming Dynasty drove out the Mongols in 1368, and their version of Huguang province was smaller ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chevron Eurasia, Europe and Middle East Exploration & Production Chevron North America Exploration & Production Chevron Global Gas ...

globe. The other two-thirds are controlled by Eurasia and East Asia, two equally oppressive (and possibly fictional) super-states, with which Oceania ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

considered a threat to livestock. In Eurasia and Africa, wolf, brown bear, leopard, tiger, lion, dhole, black bear, spotted hyena, and others ...

various purposes goes back into prehistory in Eurasia, ranging in size from small rock sculptures to substantial man-made hills of stone (some built ...

globe. The other two-thirds are controlled by Eurasia and East Asia, two equally oppressive (and possibly fictional) super-states, with which Oceania ...

seen among sampled Neanderthals from all of Eurasia, and were as different as humans from different continents. A study of the mitochondrial DNA ...

segment of the railway leading to the second Eurasia Continental Bridge.　 Xinjiang is the largest political subdivision of China, with an area ...

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 ...

Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia?" Middle East Policy ... Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia?" Middle East Policy ...

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 ...

The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...

Using these definitions, mountains cover 33 percent of Eurasia, 19 percent of South America, 24 percent of North America, and 14 percent of Africa ...

up into Laurasia (which became North America and Eurasia) ... African plate with emphasis on the Africa-Eurasia collision.] ...

Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy (Eurasia Publications, 2006, ISBN ... C. Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy (Eurasia Publications, 2006, ISBN ...

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 ...

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 ...

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/ ...

Death, a massive and deadly pandemic, swept through Eurasia, killing approximately one third of the population (according to some estimates) and changing ...

rifting apart of the North American continent from Eurasia and Africa. Essentially, the area now occupied by the Metacomet Ridge is a prehistoric rift ...

The Intercontinental Istanbul Eurasia Marathon is the only marathon where participants run over two continents, Europe and Asia, during the course ...

utilized by humans in Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, and Eurasia as early as 5000 b.c.e. Other early evidence for domestication dates from central Asia to approximately ...

12 million years ago, during the Pliocene in Eurasia, but they do not appear in the North American fossil record until the later Pleistocene ice ...

Cyprus ( Κύπρος, Kýpros ; Kıbrıs ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, Kypriakí Dhimokratía ...

Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy (Eurasia Publications, 2006, ISBN ... Koliopoulos. Thucydides on Strategy. Eurasia Publications, 2006. ISBN ...

for the higher latitudes of North America and Eurasia, which indicates that their locations also were very different from today. Climatic patterns ...

appears to have been common throughout Eurasia and Africa before the advent of modern medicine. People with severe favus and similar fungal ...

Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. There are two distinct parts to Malaysia: peninsular Malaysia and east Malaysia. ...

is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe ...

* Good, I. 1995. On the question of silk in pre-Han Eurasia. Antiquity 69(1995), iss. 266: 959–968. * Yu Huan. 429 CE. (Tran. 2004 by J. E. ...

Coyote is the common name for a New World canine, Canis latrans, that resembles a small wolf or medium-sized dog and is characterized by a narrow ...

The Eurasian Avars were a nomadic people of Eurasia, supposedly of proto-Mongolian Turkic stock, who migrated from eastern Asia into central ...

HOPES TO SELL ORANGE REVOLUTION TO RUSSIA,"] Eurasia Daily Monitor 2(54), March 17, 2005. Retrieved September 3, 2022. In the following years ...

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with a population of 450,000. Before 1920 it went by the German name "Pressburg ...

landmass (for Europeans of the time, comprising Eurasia and Africa) occupied 180 degrees of the terrestrial sphere, leaving 180 degrees of water. ...

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, marking the region where South Asia converges with Central ...

creation of such a route as a crucial link between Eurasia and North America with the potential to change the face of business. Research has indicated ...

India, which spread throughout the continent of Eurasia, developing into a variety of related games. In the West, it became chess, in China xiangqi ...

afzelii, and B. garinii (both predominant in Eurasia). However, newly discovered genospecies have also been found to cause disease in humans: B. lusitaniaeCollares ...

The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe. It borders the Scandinavian Peninsula with Sweden to the west, Russia ...

model, a migration of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge which formerly connected the two continents ...

country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... much of the north of the supercontinent of Eurasia. Because of its size, Russia ...

half of the male population of that portion of Eurasia is a descendant of the R1b haplogroup (subgroup of Central Asian haplogroup K). Haplotype R1b ...

because of its central location in Eurasia. Iran is significant in international politics due to its large supply of petroleum as well as its ...

Tethys floor, causing it to be subducted under Eurasia and pushing up the edge of the latter plate in the Alpine Orogeny of the Oligocene and Miocene ...

with the collision of the Indian sub-continent and Eurasia at the time of the Paleocene/Eocence epoch. This thickened the Indian crust to its present ...

The present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages through various world-expanding processes, ...

grand, sophisticated and elaborate in western Eurasia from the fourth millennium B.C.E. until the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered the region in ...

Archer. Peacekeeping and the role of Russia in Eurasia. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. ISBN 9780813389585 * Eyal, Jonathan. "Moldavians. ...

over a vast expanse of northern and central Eurasia to the west of the Ural River. Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where ...

in closer collaboration with the Japanese in Eurasia, particularly against the Soviet Union. Regardless of Hitler's reasons, the decision was ...

Trade between western Europe and the rest of Eurasia suffered a severe blow when the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century. The expansion of Islam ...

Fall of the Western Empire, Rome dominated Western Eurasia, comprising the majority of its population. The legacy of Rome on culture, law, technology ...

For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...

of the present-day similarity of the faunas of Eurasia and North America. But once they got down into the southern continents, they presumably became ...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning ...