The range of kiangs overlap with the pasture of some nomads at the southern part of the reserve. |
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A moss-covered cairn topped with a faded prayer flag tied to a branch, it had been carefully garlanded with flowers by passing nomads. |
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Among the nomads, men sat on kilims and carpets around a hearth outside the front of the tent to visit, drink coffee and tea, and eat. |
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They never seemed to notice that the nomads gave every appearance of being happy, free spirits. |
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His restless intellectualism curiously mirrors the expansive lives of the nomads and Australian cowboys he so much admires. |
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Contrary to their romantic image, nomads are not simply footloose people addicted to wanderlust. |
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There are the tents of nomads and flocks of sheep and goats with children and women in attendance. |
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The Ossetes speak an Indo-Iranian language, and are thought to descend from Sarmatian nomads. |
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During most of its history Libya has been inhabited by Arab and Berber nomads, only the coastlands and oases being settled. |
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We are like hordes of nomads constantly changing places in a feeble attempt to make our work lives better. |
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These are pastoralists or nomads, if you will, who make their living by herding their livestock. |
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The space manages to connect prehistoric nomads to post-industrial skateboarders. |
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The Kalmyks, as the republic's residents are known, were once Mongolian nomads who lived and practiced their faith on the Central Asian steppe. |
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Five days later, he came upon a group of Tuareg nomads, who took him on camelback to a nearby village. |
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Accounts written by other mariners shipwrecked along the same coast chronicled brutal enslavement at the hands of ruthless desert nomads. |
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Birds that were altitudinal migrants or local nomads were classified as resident. |
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Morocco's Berber tribes maintain a free-spirited lifestyle and they're often herders, nomads and mountain rug weavers. |
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In the middle of the strata are former Bedouins, Arabian Desert nomads, who settled in Kuwait with the advent of the oil industry. |
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He crushes a cobra to save his life, moves with nomads through Somalia, and waits to die from thirst beneath a truck in the Sahara. |
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As he described them to the nomads of the Empty Quarter, they thought of the hard dark dunes found in their own desert called barchan dunes. |
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The vast expanses of the Eurasian Steppes were inhabited by Scythian nomads. |
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Its people range from urban technocrats to traditional Bakhtiari and Baluchi nomads. |
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On the high moors, Mesolithic nomads and reindeer herders left scatters of flints which are still found in peat fire breaks to this day. |
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Devaji's family, like other Marwari nomads, has travelled all over the country before reaching the city five years ago. |
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As I travelled with the nomads and researched about them I found that nomadism was more than just being on the move. |
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Over the past two decades, the traditional balance between largely Arab nomads and mainly African farmers has broken down. |
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It is an ongoing dispute between Arab nomads and African farmers which has recently been politicised. |
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Local nomads reported the animals were sensitive to human presence and could be aggressive. |
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Although they were originally nomads, most Uzbeks have been settled for more than three hundred years. |
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The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. |
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These events have transformed the usually stable Karens into terrified nomads and have turned many into stubborn rebel fighters. |
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For centuries, there has been conflict between settled Black African farmers and Arab nomads. |
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As the lowlands dry up in spring, the nomads take to the hills to spend the summer months. |
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It tells the story of a band of saddle-sore nomads, headed by Harry Collings who, weary of a life of bad trouble, returns to Collings's farm. |
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Chinese officials did, however, try to conciliate the nomads by promoting Tibetan Lamaism, the religion of the Mongols. |
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As a nation of warrior nomads, they had either attacked or demanded protection money from any outsiders entering their kingdom. |
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Canaanites in the Early Bronze Age lived both as wandering nomads in the countryside and as settled traders in walled cities. |
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In fact, it's a diverse land of stunning scenery, generous nomads and abundant wildlife. |
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Actually, however, its roots go back deeper to an ethnic dispute and power struggle between African farmers and Arab nomads over water and land rights. |
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I have always been fascinated by nomads, because for most of our million years of human history, we were all nomads, wanderers on a pristine planet. |
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Some nomads were settled as farmers, ranchers, or fishermen. |
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The nomads, he said, were intensely jealous of strange men catching sight of their womenfolk, so I should stay in the Landcruiser while he advanced half way across the scrub. |
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No, instead of the global nomads, Sinatra filled his 707 with his regiment of musicians and his best local buddies. |
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Darfur, on the border with Chad and Central Africa, is home to some 80 tribes and ethnic groups divided between nomads of Arab origin and farmers of African origin. |
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Baluchi nomads live in tents made of palm matting stretched on poles. |
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The nomads bring their animals here to the town of InGall in Niger to feed on grass which is rich in salt minerals, believing that the practice fortifies the animals. |
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Political tensions exist between sedentary peoples and nomads. |
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The Touareg people are nomads who traveled through the desert. |
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Among nomads, women make tents and have more freedom of movement. |
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Since the Kazaks were nomads, during the 1800s it was possible for large numbers of Slavic settlers to move into and seize the land inhabited by the Kazaks. |
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The Arabs of the early 7th century were Bedouins or desert nomads. |
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And, of course, fur, shearling and leather are major components of the collection and recall the animal-skin coats that all the best-dressed nomads favour. |
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Oxfam reported that nomads in Niger such as the Tuareg and Fulani, who make up about 20 percent of Niger's 12.9 million population, are facing particular difficulties. |
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The bit with the nomads in the woods and the dog, it is such a surreal moment, with him putting the bones in his pocket. |
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Thus, even though nomads have to get much of their food by slaughtering animals from their herds, their way of life is still religiously respectable. |
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The typical embroidery of the nomads of India, needlecraft has been passed on for generations linking life and craft through creative expressions of colour and design. |
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In the east and north are the humanoid hordes and the barbarian nomads. |
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Let's face it, Canucks need all the globe-trotting gadabouts and nocturnal nomads they can get to liven up their cute if not a tad peculiar corner of the planet! |
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The filmmakers also venture to the Kafue Flats where 10,000 nomads also grapple with the virus, so poor they are often forced to prostitute in exchange for fish. |
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Its tentacles, as long and wide as rivers, end in yawning mouths which sweep the ground, devouring the nomads and their ponies, hundreds at a gulp. |
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Like many of the most widely exhibited contemporary artists, he has joined the ranks of the art-world nomads for whom the idea of home is largely theoretical. |
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Siberia was inhabited by different groups of nomads such as the Enets, the Nenets, the Huns, the Scythians and the Uyghurs. |
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The Tuareg nomads continue to inhabit and move across wide Sahara surfaces to the present day. |
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The ancient Greeks and the Romans knew of the Garamantes and regarded them as uncivilized nomads. |
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Until the Soviet authorities closed the border in 1936, Kazakh nomads would occasionally use these passes. |
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The Kalmyks, as the republic's resident are know, were once Mongolia nomads who lived and practices their faith on the central Asian steppe. |
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Because of its qualities of endurance and speed, the dromedary is the favourite animal used by nomads. |
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South and west Bohemia were raided by nomads and Huns, while in the sixth century Bohemia became a through route for Thuringians and Langobards. |
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Some, like the ait Atta nomads, still migrate throughout the year. |
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She admits to having slept seven-in-a-bed with Tadjik nomads and even with the Chinese Army at a frontier post in the Pamirs. |
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Desert nomads could no longer safely raid the region's interior and escape back into the Sahara. |
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These were nomads and farmers, seafarers and caravaneers, slaves and freemen, merchants and mercenaries, colonists and zealots. |
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The Manchus also wanted a delineated frontier to keep nomads and outlaws from fleeing across the border. |
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After the fall of khanate, Tatars were attacked by Kalmyks, that displaced Nogai nomads. |
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Until then, the Almoravids had been desert nomads, but the new capital marked their settling into a more urban way of life. |
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Interactions with neighboring Sudanic empires, traders, and nomads from other parts of Africa also left impressions upon the Berber people. |
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To protect against attacks from desert nomads, slaves were used as an escort. |
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Some 90,000 Egyptian fellahin and Sudanese Nubian nomads had to be relocated. |
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The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates. |
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Desert tribes and Mongolian nomads use camel hair for tents, yurts, clothing, bedding and accessories. |
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The Sui and Tang carried out very successful military campaigns against the steppe nomads. |
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The Mongol Emperors had built large palaces and pavilions, but some still continued to live as nomads at times. |
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The Berbers were originally from the Atlas mountains and Rif mountains of North Africa and were essentially nomads. |
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The Pechenegs were nomads roaming the steppe raising livestock which they traded with the Rus' for agricultural goods and other products. |
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This enabled a hypermobility which led to the jet set, and eventually to global nomads and the concept of a perpetual traveler. |
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Upon their arrival on the Pontic Steppe, the Germanic tribes adopted the ways of the Eurasian nomads. |
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The nomads also gather resins and gums to supplement their income. |
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Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis. |
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The peregrine falcon is a highly admired falconry bird, and has been used in falconry for more than 3,000 years, beginning with nomads in central Asia. |
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The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia, was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra. |
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The domestication of camels allowed Arabian nomads to control the long distance trade in spices and silk from the Far East to the Arabian Peninsula. |
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Chinese foreign policy to the north and west now had to deal with Turkic nomads, who were becoming the most dominant ethnic group in Central Asia. |
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There are hints that the Shaybanids were more connected to the steppe nomads and that the Taibugids were more connected with the forest peoples to the north and east. |
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Turkic nomads addressed the Emperor of Tang China as Tian Kehan. |
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He proclaimed a new law of the empire, Ikh Zasag or Yassa, and codified everything related to the everyday life and political affairs of the nomads at the time. |
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The development of the stirrup and the breeding of horses strong enough to carry a fully armed archer made the nomads a constant threat to the more settled civilizations. |
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First, it demonstrated the clear threat posed by the northern nomads. |
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Trade, beginning around 300 CE, The caravans would be guided by highly paid Berbers who knew the desert and could ensure safe passage from their fellow desert nomads. |
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Sheep and goats were the animals that accompanied the nomads in the Middle East, while cattle and pigs were associated with more settled communities. |
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Indo-European nomads brought specific doctrines, such as the soma or haoma, that were absorbed by and merged with local indigenous traditions of shamanism and animism. |
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One example was the encounter with the Chinese and Xiongnu nomads. |
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Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves. |
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