Search results for "Steppe" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
