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. ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Polissya (woodland and marsh), the forest-steppe, and the Steppe. The Polissya ... highlands and frame houses in the forest-steppe. Kievan Rus urban centers ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,488 words) - 00:10, 4 December 2023
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- 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
- The Doukhobors or Doukhabors ( Духоборы , Dukhobory), earlier Dukhobortsy ( Духоборцы ) are a Christian group of Russian origin. ...38 KB (5,415 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- 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 ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- on the military policy of dominating the central steppe. Like the earlier Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty (along with Turkic allies) conquered and subdued ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- 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 ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia, and China. The adoption ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- 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 ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
- where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. ===Fauna and flora=== Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- 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
- climate, while the western third has a semiarid steppe climate. The entire state experiences wide seasonal variations in temperature and precipitation ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- by the Karluk Turks and the western region (Oghuz steppe) was ruled by the Oghuz Turks. In 1040, the Seljuk Turks crossed the Oxus from the north, and ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Mesopotamia Mezopotamya; Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamíā; بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن ar|Bilād ar-Rāfidayn or ar|بَيْنُ ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- showing Heracles' club together with a steppe-type recurve bow inside a victory wreath. Senior, xxvii The Indo-Greeks thus suffered encroachments ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- position and characteristics (mainly steppe), was swept by various nomadic tribes. From the fifth century it was overrun in turn by the Huns ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- a year and may be classified as a dry desert or steppe. In the highlands east of the Jordan Valley, precipitation increases to around 118 inches (300mm ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as Šāhnāmeh, Shahnama ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- Operation Barbarossa ( Unternehmen Barbarossa ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- The dry Vojvodina plains were a grassland steppe, before Austrian agriculture started in the area in the eighteenth century, although forests ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. After a Celtic and ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- shrubs. The Meseta and Andalusia has steppe vegetation. The Canaries, so named for wild dogs (canariae insulae) once found there, as well as ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
