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- he became interested in Khazar studies and steppe peoples in general. In 1950s ... of nomadic migration that rocked the great steppe of Eurasia for centuries ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- Pikas are found in the mountains and steppe of central Asia and the mountains ... and to Hokkaido Island in Japan. The steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) goes ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- vegetation zones in central Siberia, from steppe, forest-steppe, mixed forest ... Four vertical zones exist in the Reserve—steppe, forest, sub-Alpine ...13 KB (1,840 words) - 19:34, 8 June 2023
- command of Batu Khan to subdue the Russian steppe. Their western conquests ... *Hildinger, Eric. 1997. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History ...10 KB (1,537 words) - 15:55, 5 December 2022
- location in the center of the Kazakh Steppe and sports a forbidding winter ... on the Ishim River in a flat, semi-desert steppe region which covers most ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- average of 7.5 °C) and creating an arid steppe on the Argentine side of ... The flora grows in three well-defined areas: steppe, forest, and highlands ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- woolly pelage made it well suited to the steppe-tundra environment prevalent ... environment to have been cold and arid steppe-tundra, with large herbivores ...11 KB (1,548 words) - 21:32, 28 April 2024
- survive on vegetation in grassland, steppe, wadis, mountain desert, ... ** Gazella pilgrimi--Steppe Gazelle ** Gazella leile--Leile's Gazelle ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- . The coldest area is the Chuyskaya steppe. ===Vegetation and Wildlife=== Altai system: mountain subdesert, mountain steppe, mountain forest, and the ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2023
- Mountain range. Originating in a cold steppe climate, it descends through ... stretch that the transition from a cold steppe climate with a vegetation ...17 KB (2,584 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- :I can't believe it! That night on the steppe :When, in the midnight mist a premature dawn, :Transparent, lovely as a miracle, ...6 KB (983 words) - 05:56, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:Eagle Lahore Zoo June302005.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Steppe ... *** Steppe eagle, A. nipalensis *** Tawny eagle, A. rapax ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- Image:Mongolia Ger.jpg|Two completed gers in the mongolian steppe [[Image:Disassembled yurt in Tos Bulak.jpg|thumb|250px|Disassembled yurt in ...18 KB (2,825 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- into the Volga River valley, the Pontic steppe and the Balkans. By the end ... over the Volga valley and the Pontic steppe region. His greatest success ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Mongols: Cross-cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier (Cambridge University ... Mongols: Cross-cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, Cambridge University ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- (published in English as Fire in the Steppe, 1888) only added to Sienkiewicz ... (Hippocrene: New York, 1991); Fire in the Steppe (originally Pan Wołodyjowski ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- on rainfall; taiga may be replaced by open steppe woodland south of the 15°C July isotherm where rainfall is very low, but more typically extends ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
- nomads that had occupied the Pontic-Caspian steppe from about 1500. Under pressure from Kalmyk warriors, the Nogai fled to the Crimea and the Kuban ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- of the Cimmerians in the Caucasian Steppe and the Scythians in the Caspian Steppe. After the Scythians migrated to the west and displaced the ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- Horse taming and horseback culture evolved first in the southern steppe grasslands of Central Asia, perhaps approximately in modern Kazakhstan ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- 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
