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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 ...

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 ...

vegetation zones in central Siberia, from steppe, forest-steppe, mixed forest ... Four vertical zones exist in the Reserve—steppe, forest, sub-Alpine ...

command of Batu Khan to subdue the Russian steppe. Their western conquests ... *Hildinger, Eric. 1997. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History ...

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 ...

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 ...

woolly pelage made it well suited to the steppe-tundra environment prevalent ... environment to have been cold and arid steppe-tundra, with large herbivores ...

survive on vegetation in grassland, steppe, wadis, mountain desert, ... ** Gazella pilgrimi--Steppe Gazelle ** Gazella leile--Leile's Gazelle ...

. The coldest area is the Chuyskaya steppe. ===Vegetation and Wildlife=== Altai system: mountain subdesert, mountain steppe, mountain forest, and the ...

Mountain range. Originating in a cold steppe climate, it descends through ... stretch that the transition from a cold steppe climate with a vegetation ...

:I can't believe it! That night on the steppe :When, in the midnight mist a premature dawn, :Transparent, lovely as a miracle, ...

[[Image:Eagle Lahore Zoo June302005.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Steppe ... *** Steppe eagle, A. nipalensis *** Tawny eagle, A. rapax ...

Image:Mongolia Ger.jpg|Two completed gers in the mongolian steppe [[Image:Disassembled yurt in Tos Bulak.jpg|thumb|250px|Disassembled yurt in ...

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 ...

Mongols: Cross-cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier (Cambridge University ... Mongols: Cross-cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, Cambridge University ...

(published in English as Fire in the Steppe, 1888) only added to Sienkiewicz ... (Hippocrene: New York, 1991); Fire in the Steppe (originally Pan Wołodyjowski ...

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 ...

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 ...

of the Cimmerians in the Caucasian Steppe and the Scythians in the Caspian Steppe. After the Scythians migrated to the west and displaced the ...

Horse taming and horseback culture evolved first in the southern steppe grasslands of Central Asia, perhaps approximately in modern Kazakhstan ...

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 ...

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 ...

started writing the long short story The Steppe (Step), which was eventually ... *"The Steppe" (1888) – won the Pushkin Prize ...

including rock and boulder fields, meadow, steppe, shrub, arctic tundra, savanna, desert, forest, and agricultural pasture. ==Behavior, diet ...

The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the Central Asian republic of Bashkortostan, an oil rich territory. A significant number ...

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 ...

range descends southward and transforms into a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara. The Atlas mountain range is a portion of the fold mountain ...

The name “Golden Horde” is believed to have come from the steppe color system for the cardinal directions: black = north, blue = east, red ...

climate, Mediterranean climate, continental steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert. The Köppen system, however, has its ...

|Mustela eversmannii || Lesson, 1827 || Steppe polecat || Europe & Northern AsiaSouthern Asia |-valign="top" style="background: ...

of the rhinoceros that lived in the European steppe area shares many similar physical characteristics with the unicorn, as does the narwhal, which ...

the level, rolling plains of the Nogay Steppe. The climate varies according ... bare rock, snow, and ice. The Nogay Steppe has sagebrush vegetation ...

Chameleon is any of the tropical, New World lizards comprising the family Chamaeleonidae, known primarily for their ability to change body color ...

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 ...

and arboreal, and grasslands, dry steppe, mountains, forests, savannas, and so forth. ==Behavior, feeding, and reproduction== Viperids feed largely ...

The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but also in Poland the Baltic states and several other countries. Russian Tatars ...

of the characteristic timber graves of the steppe. Based on its use by Indo ... within the distinctive timber-frame graves of the steppe. ...

*Mammuthus trogontherii Steppe mammoth *Mammuthus meridionalis Southern mammoth *Mammuthus subplanifrons South African mammoth *Mammuthus primigenius ...

formidable opponent. Also, despite the steppe tactics of the Avars and ... *Hildinger, Eric. 1997. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History ...

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 ...

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 ...

were often sold into slavery by impoverished steppe families or kidnapped by slave-traders. The Mamluk system gave rulers troops with no link ...

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 ...

Scytho-Siberians and the people of the Eurasian steppe. The crowns are a uniquely Korean product and show little Chinese influence. The Silla crown ...

that controlled only the southern part of the steppe was inherently insecure. ==Reputation and Conduct== Abu Bakr was renowned for his simple ...

subpolar; the northeast is made up of steppe and cool semidesert. Vegetation is limited to mosses and stunted trees in the exposed southern and ...

husbandry, and traded with the nomadic steppe dwellers to the south, with ... between Lithuania and the Tatars of the steppe. Frequently attacked by Crimean ...

Mustelidae is a diverse family of the order Carnivora, whose extant members typically are characterized by large necks, small heads, short legs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkey and is surrounded by a barren featureless steppe vegetation, with various Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman archaeological ...

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 ...

In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is an organized, individual living system (such as animal, plant, fungus ...

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 ...

the Irtysh river where they built several steppe monasteries. The Khoshuts ... units. Those in the western Kalmyk steppe were attached to the Astrakhan ...

structure to extend their power beyond the steppe. Over a period of 30 years beginning in 1586, Nurhaci, a chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens ...

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 ...

20 inches (500mm) annually, produces a steppe type of vegetation. The flora consists of mountainous steppe, with dwarf oak and Iberian ...

warlords, known to the Turkic-speaking steppe peoples as "köl-beki ... the activities of the Magyars and other steppe tribes, and not the Rus'. ...

The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer) is a landlocked endorheic (having no natural outflow except evaporation ...

/51305frame.htm Great Basin Shrub Steppe]. Bio Images. * [http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/50515.htm Great Basin montane forests ...

fully glaciated Alaska Range. The grassland steppe including the land bridge and stretching for several hundred miles into the continents on either ...

cover is between 10-30 percent, such as in the steppe regions of the world. Trees of any type (e.g., needleleaf, broadleaf, palms). ...

to control land traffic between the Eurasian Steppe and the Middle East. The only other practicable crossing of the Caucasus ridge was over the ...

name Hauts Plateaux) consist of undulating, steppe-like plains lying between the Tell and Saharan Atlas ranges. Higher and more continuous than ...

400 square miles (1,000 km²) of sagebrush steppe grasslands, with a total ... the last refuges of intact sagebrush steppe communities on the Snake ...

latter words mean "plain" or "steppe." Eden is described as a paradise where the first man and woman lived naked and not ashamed ...

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 ...

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 ...

in the southernmost portion of the steppe region, after ignoring advice from his advisor, Croesus, to not continue forward. Jona Lendering, [http://www ...

*Bergholz, Fred W. The Partition of the Steppe: The Struggle of the Russians, Manchus, and the Zunghar Mongols for Empire in Central Asia, 1619 ...

northern Saudi Arabia, western Iraq, and the Syrian steppe. *Rwala, a large clan from the Aniza tribe, live in Saudi Arabia, but extend through ...

areas to the dry deserts, and dominate the steppe communities of Asia, South Africa, and the New World (Mucciarelli and Maffei 2002). Many species ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 Tūjué ...

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 ...

html Ecological Subregions of the US: Sierran Steppe--Mixed Forest--Coniferous Forest.] Retrieved December 12, 2008. A unique peculiarity of the ...

with veteran burlesque comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson. When he met his future partner in comedy, Abbott was performing in Minsky's ...

"Greuthungi" may mean "steppe dwellers" or "people of the pebbly coasts." The root greut- is probably related to ...

power and influence solely from a charis­matic steppe leader with a carefully cultivated linkage to Mongol aristocracy. Now centered in Khorasan, ...

the state: humid continental, semiarid steppe, and humid subtropical. The ... The western third of the state has a semiarid steppe climate, receiving ...

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 ...

#cf8e14|Steppe climate #e9ba00|Desert climate #a7cc00|Mediterranean climate #2b9c2b|Humid temperate climate #92b32a|Humid subtropical climate ...

The Argentine portion of Patagonia is mostly a region of vast steppe-like plains, rising in a succession of abrupt terraces about 100 meters ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kenneth J. Dillon has argued that the Trojans were originally a steppe people related to the Magyars.Scientia Press, The Trojan Origin of Roman ...

east the Irtysh at 56°N. In the eastern Baraba steppe (near Novosibirsk), the boundary turned steep south, encircled the Altai Mountains, and went ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe the system of prison camps ...

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 ...

subtypes. The first, a tropical semi-arid steppe climate, predominates over ... experiences a tropical and sub-tropical steppe climate. The zone, a transitional ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation rite of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the ... * Cameron, Sarah. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making ...

from elk that once inhabited Beringia, a steppe region between Asia and North America that connected the two continents during the Pleistocene ...

have had Altaic origins, whose northern Mongolian Steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia, and China. ...

Polissya (woodland and marsh), the forest-steppe, and the Steppe. The Polissya ... highlands and frame houses in the forest-steppe. Kievan Rus urban centers ...

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 ...

Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected ...

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 ...

The Doukhobors or Doukhabors ( Духоборы , Dukhobory), earlier Dukhobortsy ( Духоборцы ) are a Christian group of Russian origin. ...

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 ...

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 ...

in Siberia. These plains are predominantly steppe to the south and heavily ... mixed forest, broadleaf forest, grassland (steppe), and semidesert (fringing ...

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 ...

on the military policy of dominating the central steppe. Like the earlier Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty (along with Turkic allies) conquered and subdued ...

connects through the Kazakh border to the Eurasian Steppe which has been an artery of communication between East and West since the Neolithic through ...

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 ...

origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia, and China. The adoption ...

The extreme southwestern corner has a semi-arid mid-latitude steppe climate. This region is somewhat drier than other parts of southern Manitoba ...

East and south of the Atlas Mountains, scrubby steppe and desert vegetation is found, including date palms. ==History== Archaeological evidence ...

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 ...

might indicate that it took place on the steppe around Nukhashashe, but this remains mere speculation.Redford, 2003, 234 In his thirteenth campaign ...

where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. ===Fauna and flora=== Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination ...

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 ...

climate, while the western third has a semiarid steppe climate. The entire state experiences wide seasonal variations in temperature and precipitation ...

by the Karluk Turks and the western region (Oghuz steppe) was ruled by the Oghuz Turks. In 1040, the Seljuk Turks crossed the Oxus from the north, and ...

Mesopotamia Mezopotamya; Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamíā; بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن ar|Bilād ar-Rāfidayn or ar|بَيْن‌ُ ...

showing Heracles' club together with a steppe-type recurve bow inside a victory wreath. Senior, xxvii The Indo-Greeks thus suffered encroachments ...

position and characteristics (mainly steppe), was swept by various nomadic tribes. From the fifth century it was overrun in turn by the Huns ...

a year and may be classified as a dry desert or steppe. In the highlands east of the Jordan Valley, precipitation increases to around 118 inches (300mm ...

The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as Šāhnāmeh, Shahnama ...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ...

Operation Barbarossa ( Unternehmen Barbarossa ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that ...

The dry Vojvodina plains were a grassland steppe, before Austrian agriculture started in the area in the eighteenth century, although forests ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. After a Celtic and ...

shrubs. The Meseta and Andalusia has steppe vegetation. The Canaries, so named for wild dogs (canariae insulae) once found there, as well as ...