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- Pasternak spent the summer of 1917 living in the steppe near Saratov, where he fell in love with a Jewish girl. This affection resulted in the ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- Maksimuk, L. V. Zhirnov, and S. V. Nash. 1995. From Steppe to Store: The Trade in Saiga Antelope Horn. Species in Danger. Cambridge, UK: Traffice International ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- started writing the long short story The Steppe (Step), which was eventually ... *"The Steppe" (1888) – won the Pushkin Prize ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 06:50, 31 July 2023
- including rock and boulder fields, meadow, steppe, shrub, arctic tundra, savanna, desert, forest, and agricultural pasture. ==Behavior, diet ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 05:35, 4 March 2023
- The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the Central Asian republic of Bashkortostan, an oil rich territory. A significant number ...10 KB (1,550 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- effect that the Uighur, Shatuo Turks, and Kirghiz steppe cavalry had on the Chinese. On the other hand, they noticed the effect that the adoption of ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- range descends southward and transforms into a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara. The Atlas mountain range is a portion of the fold mountain ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- The name “Golden Horde” is believed to have come from the steppe color system for the cardinal directions: black = north, blue = east, red ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- climate, Mediterranean climate, continental steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert. The Köppen system, however, has its ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- |Mustela eversmannii || Lesson, 1827 || Steppe polecat || Europe & Northern AsiaSouthern Asia |-valign="top" style="background: ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- of the rhinoceros that lived in the European steppe area shares many similar physical characteristics with the unicorn, as does the narwhal, which ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- the level, rolling plains of the Nogay Steppe. The climate varies according ... bare rock, snow, and ice. The Nogay Steppe has sagebrush vegetation ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- Chameleon is any of the tropical, New World lizards comprising the family Chamaeleonidae, known primarily for their ability to change body color ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 02:06, 13 January 2023
- he fought against the Saka and other Iranian steppe tribes, as well as the mysterious Turanians from beyond the Oxus. In the process of these campaigns ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- and arboreal, and grasslands, dry steppe, mountains, forests, savannas, and so forth. ==Behavior, feeding, and reproduction== Viperids feed largely ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but also in Poland the Baltic states and several other countries. Russian Tatars ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- of the characteristic timber graves of the steppe. Based on its use by Indo ... within the distinctive timber-frame graves of the steppe. ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- *Mammuthus trogontherii Steppe mammoth *Mammuthus meridionalis Southern mammoth *Mammuthus subplanifrons South African mammoth *Mammuthus primigenius ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- formidable opponent. Also, despite the steppe tactics of the Avars and ... *Hildinger, Eric. 1997. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- shrub forest, 10) brush-wood, and 11) meadow steppe. Evergreen broad-leaved forests, some of which make up the largest remaining tracts of humid sub ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- Rift Valley, and north-north east of the Maasai steppe, the great plain of northeastern Tanzania renowned as the homeland of the nomadic Maasai cattle ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- were often sold into slavery by impoverished steppe families or kidnapped by slave-traders. The Mamluk system gave rulers troops with no link ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Tulip is the common name for any member of the thousands of varieties and about 100 species of bulbous plants comprising the genus Tulipa of ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Scytho-Siberians and the people of the Eurasian steppe. The crowns are a uniquely Korean product and show little Chinese influence. The Silla crown ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 06:29, 11 January 2024
- that controlled only the southern part of the steppe was inherently insecure. ==Reputation and Conduct== Abu Bakr was renowned for his simple ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- subpolar; the northeast is made up of steppe and cool semidesert. Vegetation is limited to mosses and stunted trees in the exposed southern and ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- husbandry, and traded with the nomadic steppe dwellers to the south, with ... between Lithuania and the Tatars of the steppe. Frequently attacked by Crimean ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- Mustelidae is a diverse family of the order Carnivora, whose extant members typically are characterized by large necks, small heads, short legs ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- in the 1990s was reintroduced into the Mongolian steppe from zoos and is now considered endangered in the wild. As a result of its preservation and ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- 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 (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- 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
- in the southernmost portion of the steppe region, after ignoring advice from his advisor, Croesus, to not continue forward. Jona Lendering, [http://www ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- *Bergholz, Fred W. The Partition of the Steppe: The Struggle of the Russians, Manchus, and the Zunghar Mongols for Empire in Central Asia, 1619 ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
- northern Saudi Arabia, western Iraq, and the Syrian steppe. *Rwala, a large clan from the Aniza tribe, live in Saudi Arabia, but extend through ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- areas to the dry deserts, and dominate the steppe communities of Asia, South Africa, and the New World (Mucciarelli and Maffei 2002). Many species ...26 KB (3,665 words) - 12:12, 7 November 2021
- arisen from confusion between him and later steppe warlords, such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. All are considered to be cruel, clever, and blood-thirsty ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- were new to the forces he faced in Europe and the steppe, and they were unprepared to meet them. Subutai was also well known for incorporating ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 Tūjué ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- with the many other peoples of the Inner Asian steppe. Hermanns believed the epic to pre-date Buddhism in Tibet, and saw in it an expression of the ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- html Ecological Subregions of the US: Sierran Steppe--Mixed Forest--Coniferous Forest.] Retrieved December 12, 2008. A unique peculiarity of the ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- with veteran burlesque comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson. When he met his future partner in comedy, Abbott was performing in Minsky's ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- "Greuthungi" may mean "steppe dwellers" or "people of the pebbly coasts." The root greut- is probably related to ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- power and influence solely from a charismatic steppe leader with a carefully cultivated linkage to Mongol aristocracy. Now centered in Khorasan, ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- the state: humid continental, semiarid steppe, and humid subtropical. The ... The western third of the state has a semiarid steppe climate, receiving ...47 KB (6,939 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2024
- dry climate with large areas of semiarid steppe and a few truly arid deserts ... is covered with grassland and shrub-steppe. The average annual temperature ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- #cf8e14|Steppe climate #e9ba00|Desert climate #a7cc00|Mediterranean climate #2b9c2b|Humid temperate climate #92b32a|Humid subtropical climate ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- The Argentine portion of Patagonia is mostly a region of vast steppe-like plains, rising in a succession of abrupt terraces about 100 meters ...22 KB (3,265 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- on the Pampas of Argentina and other prairie and steppe regions of the world. The enclosure of livestock in pastures and barns is a relatively ...26 KB (3,786 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- quot; to distinguish them from the nomads of the steppe. Warfare and invasion led to one of the first great migrations in Han population history, as ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- Kenneth J. Dillon has argued that the Trojans were originally a steppe people related to the Magyars.Scientia Press, The Trojan Origin of Roman ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- east the Irtysh at 56°N. In the eastern Baraba steppe (near Novosibirsk), the boundary turned steep south, encircled the Altai Mountains, and went ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe the system of prison camps ...26 KB (3,838 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe that lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- subtypes. The first, a tropical semi-arid steppe climate, predominates over ... experiences a tropical and sub-tropical steppe climate. The zone, a transitional ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation rite of ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- north for about 500 miles into the uninhabited steppe, then west about 1000 miles, advancing in a front more than 10 miles wide. Tokhtamysh's ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- of the eastern part, drying off to a semi-arid steppe climate in the southern and southwestern part of the province. The northern parts of Saskatchewan —from ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- nomadic Turkic people who dominated the Pontic steppe and the North Caucasus from the seventh to the tenth centuries, and starting from the tenth century ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- meters high, which dot the Ukrainian and Russian steppe belts and extend in many great chains for many kilometers along ridges and watershed. It is ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- It was based on an old tradition of the steppe, which was a decimal system known in Iranian cultures since Achaemenid Persia: The army was built ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the ... * Cameron, Sarah. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making ...62 KB (8,577 words) - 22:34, 7 January 2024
- from elk that once inhabited Beringia, a steppe region between Asia and North America that connected the two continents during the Pleistocene ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
- 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