The Magyars were bowmen and light cavalry experts from the Asian steppes, and their horses were mostly the Turkmen type. |
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What would he have made of it, this endlessly questing, insatiably curious man of the steppes? |
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In the Gobi area, you will find mountains, plains, steppes, forests and barren areas. |
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Among those added to the list is the saiga, a nomadic antelope inhabiting the steppes and semi-arid deserts of central Asia. |
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It is a dry land of mountains and steppes, with some plains in the valleys of the heartland. |
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Much of Uzbekistan's landscape consists of deserts, dry steppes, and fertile oases near rivers. |
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The present distribution of mountains and rivers, of fields, of meadows, of steppes, of forests, and of seashores, cannot be considered final. |
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Most of them are typical heliophile pioneer plants, occurring now in steppes, dunes or on bare limestone rocks. |
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This exquisite piece is no simple rendition of the chunky horses of the Ice Age European steppes. |
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Some time in the 9th century, a Turkish people from the steppes of Asia, known as the Magyars, began migrating westward. |
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These mobile homes have been used for thousands of years by nomadic Mongolian tribesmen on the steppes of Asia. |
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Japan and China are also clashing over the route of a pipeline across the dark forests and frozen steppes of Siberia. |
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To our north, the vast featureless Kazakh steppes, an area the size of Western Europe, stretched away seemingly to infinity. |
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With these they are able to dramatise plains, prairies, steppes and meadows. |
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Yaola Four turned out to be a beautiful world, with vast steppes, forests and badlands. |
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Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries. |
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Most of the country is covered by steppes, with desert areas and some patches of cultivated land. |
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The principal route to market winds through the mountains and steppes of three former Soviet republics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. |
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Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe. |
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During warmer periods the land turned into meadows and steppes, ideal grazing grounds for woolly mammoths, rhinoceroses, bison, horses, elk, and yaks. |
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That plan, worthy of some almighty post-Soviet sultan of the steppes, has foundered. |
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Groups of humans that remained in Africa might be expected to differ from those that migrated to the Russian steppes, the Asian archipelagos, or the Australian outback. |
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Until the early 1990s, more than one million Saiga Antelopes used to roam the steppes and deserts of Eurasia. |
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But each year the number decreased until there was only one, which left in late February, 1995, to begin its long spring migration to Russia's steppes. |
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It was around 15,000 BC in the steppes of the Near East that nomads began collecting the ears of these wild plants. |
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This year, I have travelled from the ice rim of the Arctic to the steppes of Mongolia. |
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When first brought to France from the steppes of Russia, the Demoiselle Crane was so named by Queen Marie Antoinette, for its delicate and maiden-like appearance. |
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Having invaded the Russian steppes alongside the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Tatars were seen by medieval Russian chroniclers as the epitome of Oriental barbarism. |
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And there are the transits through UB, a veritable Bangkok of the steppes at least if your comparators are Kabul and Mogadishu. |
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But when the rains arrived, fresh carpets of zebra, wildebeest and Thomson's gazelles rolled out from the distant hills, transforming the treeless steppes. |
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Human cultures now spread from the subtropical regions into the steppes and temperate climes where the grasses could be selected to provide abundant food. |
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The game may have its origin in ancient times, when herds of cattle grazed in the steppes and mountains and were exposed to the threat of attack by wolves. |
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During the following days, we will cross green frozen steppes, sandy deserts, narrow gorges and canyons, and all the guises that mountains are apt to take. |
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Olga was born and grew up on the steppes of southern Siberia. |
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Four mountaineers in the high steppes of northern Tibet and northeastern China have located the key calving ground of the chiru, a rare Tibetan antelope. |
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This is a significant bioclimatic transition, where the south Siberian taiga gives way to the deserts and steppes of Central Asia. |
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In the south-east the fauna of the Black Sea steppes occurs: the hamster, spotted souslik, steppe polecat. |
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Forested slopes of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir give way to aspen-clad foothills and rolling sagebrush steppes that have the spongy look of muskeg, but two shades lighter. |
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The conservation and restoration of the unique megafauna of the mountains and steppes in cold and temperate deserts and semi deserts of Asia and Europe are essential for these exceptional habitats. |
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At the best of times, carrying vaccines to the scattered mobile populations in Mongolia's vast steppes, desert plains, forests and mountains is no picnic. |
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The succession of armies and empires, tribes and khanates all appeared and disappeared from the steppes. |
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Many were attracted to the vast open grasslands of the Canadian Prairies, which, while unsheltered from the harsher elements, reminded them of the steppes back home. |
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Dens built among tree roots can last for decades, while those dug on the steppes last only several years. |
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In 1200, he was sent by his father to rule the town of Pereyaslav near the Kypchak steppes. |
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The vegetation of the Eremian Zone ranges from barely vegetated desert and hills through a variety of semiarid shrub savannas, shrub steppes, semiarid tussock grasslands, and sclerophyllous hummock grasslands. |
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The steppes of Kazakhstan promise pure off-road pleasure, whilst the Cosmodrome in Baikonur gives us an enticing insight into the world of space travel. |
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The steppes of its westernmost province were China's bulwark against the military threat it perceived from the Soviet Union for most of the last 40 years. |
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Botticelli follows the poet, who is, in turn, led by his imaginary Virgil, past gullies of boiling oil and seas of blood, through rocky ravines, down chasmic holes to perilous ledges and arctic steppes. |
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You don't understand me, the farmer all but grunts to his wife, though it remains unclear why his mission to save the steppes through arborization would be impeded by his daughter's medical needs. |
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Simply on country sites kerchan not a rarity ancient chernozems which were generated under oak groves and meadow steppes in more favorable and damp conditions of an antiquity. |
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Those flanks were vulnerably exposed on the open steppes surrounding the city and were weakly defended by undermanned, undersupplied, overstretched, and undermotivated Romanian, Hungarian, and Italian troops. |
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An alternative way of storing camel milk in places lacking electricity, let alone refrigerators, was found centuries ago in the steppes of Kazakhstan and Mongolia, where herders keep two-humped Bactrian camels. |
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Animal or vegetable biological resources and their genetic media are renewable resources that develop in natural ecosystems such as forests, steppes, grazing land, deserts, wadis, seas, lakes and lagoons. |
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The Avars from the steppes introduces stirrups to Europe. |
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Howard Hughes, the eccentric head of RKO Pictures, lavished money on what he envisaged as a stirring tale of romance and epic battles on Asia's steppes. |
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Key direct factors are land consumption, inappropriate land and water use, particularly in the steppes and desert steppes, and present-day climate change. |
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Their cuisine, which is largely determined by their religion and by the products available on the steppes, is one of the elements of that cultural heritage. |
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In the second half of the 20th century numbers of Blackwinged Pratincole became locally stable or even increased, which was presumably related to the irrigation of steppes. |
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Travelling mostly by camel or on horseback, the tutor can cover distances of 80 kilometres to reach the families scattered across the steppes, which have virtually no roads, telephones and a monthly mail delivery at best. |
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Chameleons inhabit all kinds of tropical and mountain rain forests, savannas, and sometimes deserts and steppes. |
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Aristotle noted that cranes traveled from the steppes of Scythia to marshes at the headwaters of the Nile. |
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Tulips are most commonly found in meadows, steppes and chaparral, but also introduced in fields, orchards, roadsides and abandoned gardens. |
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Some archaeologists believed it sprang from central Europe while others saw an influence from nomadic pastoral societies of the steppes. |
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In 1441, in the southern Ukraine, especially Crimea and surrounding steppes, Genghisid prince Haci I Giray founded the Crimean Khanate. |
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The central and eastern plateau, with its drier continental climate, has deciduous forests and forest steppes. |
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A Turkic people, the Khazars, ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas until the 10th century. |
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Both the Xiongnu and Huns used bronze cauldrons, similarly to all peoples of the steppes. |
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The diversity of climate zones in Colombia is characterized for having tropical rainforests, savannas, steppes, deserts and mountain climate. |
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The landscapes of the Urals vary with both latitude and longitude and are dominated by forests and steppes. |
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The steep gravelly slopes of the mountains and hills of the eastern slopes of the Southern Urals are mostly covered with rocky steppes. |
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The steppes of the Southern Urals are dominated by hares and rodents such as gophers, susliks, and jerboa. |
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Defeated and disgraced, Karacha fled south to the steppes of the Ishim, where Kuchum waited. |
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Kuchum retreated into the steppes, and over the next few years regrouped his forces. |
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He sailed up Lena until it became too rocky and shallow, and then journeyed westward through the steppes inhabited by nomadic Buryats. |
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Their farming way of life was very different from the pastoral nomadism of the Mongols and the Khitans on the steppes. |
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When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth. |
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The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west. |
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To the south, the meadow steppes become more sparse, dry and low. |
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He mounted five military expeditions into the Mongol steppes and crushed the remnants of the Yuan dynasty that had fled north after being defeated by the Hongwu Emperor. |
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Those of the eastern division, though dispersed about the steppes until late medieval times, were forced by the Mongols into the Caucasus, where they remain as the Ossetians. |
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The European polecat is absent from the Saratov steppes of Transvolga, instead being encountered only in the extreme lower Bolshoy and Maly Irgiz Rivers. |
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Golden eagles that breed from the Kola peninsula to Anadyr in the Russian Far East migrate south to winter on the Russian and Mongolian steppes, and the North China Plains. |
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The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes. |
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In three breathtaking days of pogroms and horrific violence, the Okhrana, the Tsar's secret police, chase a motherless 17-year-old across the steppes of 1881 Russia. |
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With its blend of Shamanist and Tibetan Buddhist art and culture against a breathtaking backdrop of golden steppes, Mongolia has become an exciting travel destination. |
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The remains of the khan's army retreated to the steppes, and thus Yermak captured the Siberia Khanate, including its capital Qashliq near modern Tobolsk. |
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