Search results for "Steppe" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
