Search results for "Steppe" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The fifth region is a rolling, sandy plain called the Nogay steppe ... poplar, and black alder, with a grass steppe vegetation on the lower slopes ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Turkey and is surrounded by a barren featureless steppe vegetation, with various Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman archaeological ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- from zoos into the Mongolian steppe in the 1990s. It is sometimes considered a separate species, E. przewalskii, but also is listed as a subspecies ...18 KB (2,488 words) - 07:29, 6 September 2023
- In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is an organized, individual living system (such as animal, plant, fungus ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- the Irtysh river where they built several steppe monasteries. The Khoshuts ... units. Those in the western Kalmyk steppe were attached to the Astrakhan ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- North of the city, a fertile and gently undulating steppe extends far north into neighboring Kazakhstan. The Chui river drains most of the area. Bishkek ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- structure to extend their power beyond the steppe. Over a period of 30 years beginning in 1586, Nurhaci, a chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- and deserts of Central Asia. The Kazakh Steppe, with an area of around 310 ... is still called Dashti-Kipchak, or the Kipchak Steppe. In the late ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- 20 inches (500mm) annually, produces a steppe type of vegetation. The flora consists of mountainous steppe, with dwarf oak and Iberian ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- warlords, known to the Turkic-speaking steppe peoples as "köl-beki ... the activities of the Magyars and other steppe tribes, and not the Rus'. ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- 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
- /51305frame.htm Great Basin Shrub Steppe]. Bio Images. * [http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/50515.htm Great Basin montane forests ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 19:27, 24 May 2024
- fully glaciated Alaska Range. The grassland steppe including the land bridge and stretching for several hundred miles into the continents on either ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- cover is between 10-30 percent, such as in the steppe regions of the world. Trees of any type (e.g., needleleaf, broadleaf, palms). ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- to control land traffic between the Eurasian Steppe and the Middle East. The only other practicable crossing of the Caucasus ridge was over the ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- name Hauts Plateaux) consist of undulating, steppe-like plains lying between the Tell and Saharan Atlas ranges. Higher and more continuous than ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- 400 square miles (1,000 km²) of sagebrush steppe grasslands, with a total ... the last refuges of intact sagebrush steppe communities on the Snake ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- latter words mean "plain" or "steppe." Eden is described as a paradise where the first man and woman lived naked and not ashamed ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- interior basin, which is mainly of the shrub-steppe variety. The original shrub-steppe vegetation has in large part--over 50 percent--been destroyed by ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- of the Magyars, were settled in the wood-steppe parts of western Siberia (i.e., to the east of the Urals)–from c. 2000 B.C.E. onwards at least ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022