Search results for "Steppe" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
