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  • ...tan Kazakhstan: Introduction]. Retrieved: 7 June 2016.</ref> and [[Eastern Europe]]. Kazakhstan is the world's largest [[landlocked country]], and the [[List Kazakhstan has been inhabited since the [[Neolithic Age]]: the region's climate and terrain are best suited for nomads practising [
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  • |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1963|5|8|mf=y}} ...060425_06en.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |title= CONCERNS IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-
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  • ...on of a new operating company rules out operatorship in Kashagan |work=New Europe|accessdate=24 March 2013}}</ref> to lead negotiations,<ref>{{cite web|url=h ...nt venture of [[Aker Solutions]], [[WorleyParsons]] and [[Chicago Bridge & Iron Company|CB&I]]. WorleyParsons and Aker Solutions are also engaged in phase
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  • ...ies between continents|conventional boundary]] between the continents of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. [[Vaygach Island]] and the islands of [[Novaya Zemlya]] for ...e/><ref>*{{cite book|title=The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Ages|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2007|isbn=0-521-82928-3|auth
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  • ...November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Berk.</ref> ...ormer [[Soviet Union]] use a wider [[rail gauge]] than most of the rest of Europe as well as China. Recently, however, the Trans-Siberian has regained ground
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  • ...of South Asian history|Indian subcontinent]], [[Greater Persia|Persia]], [[Europe]], the [[Horn of Africa]] and [[Arabia]], opening long-distance political a ...1938.<ref name="ball 2016 p156"/> The fall of the [[Soviet Union]] and '[[Iron Curtain]]' in 1989 led to a surge of public and academic interest in Silk R
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  • |death_date = {{nowrap|{{Death date and age|1982|11|10|1906|12|19|df=yes}} }} ...mber 1906 <small>([[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe|O.S.]] 6 December)</small>&nbsp;– 10 November 1982) was the [[General Sec
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  • ...hers (particularly on the head and neck) are often stained orange-brown by iron and tannins in the water.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Mute Swan {{!}} Birds o ...r around 36 days. The cygnets do not reach the ability of flight before an age of 120 to 150 days: this limits the distribution of the species in the nort
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  • ...they reach ten years of age. Males can grow gradually until they reach an age of about 30 or 40 years.<ref name=role>{{cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=S ...ival of the Caspian seal. From 1998 to 2000, the concentration of zinc and iron increased dramatically in the tissue of dead, diseased seals. This suggests
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  • .../ref> is a [[Subspecies of Canis lupus|subspecies of grey wolf]] native to Europe and the forest and [[steppe]] zones of the [[former Soviet Union]]. It was ...eofmam00brit#page/312/mode/2up Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British museum]'', London, Pr
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  • ...rld, prospering from its location on the trade route between [[China]] and Europe ([[Silk Road]]). In 1370, Timur the Lame, or [[Tamerlane]], decided to make ...stimated at 6–7&nbsp;km, largely filled with [[sediments]] that range in age as far back as the [[Permian-Triassic boundary]]. Some of the sediments are
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  • ...itorial borders, reaching as far as [[Western Europe]],<ref>Will Durant, ''Age of Faith'', (Simon and Schuster, 1950), 150; ''Repaying its debt, Sasanian ...re was controlled by his mother and the nobles. Upon Shapur II's coming of age, he assumed power and quickly proved to be an active and effective ruler.
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  • ...who formed a semi-nomadic [[Khanate]] in the area extending from [[Eastern Europe]] to [[Central Asia]]. The hypothesis draws on some [[Middle Ages|medieval] ...fugees who had migrated from the collapsed Khazarian Khanate westward into Europe, and [[language shift|exchanged]] their native [[Khazar language]] for [[Yi
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  • ...h|2007|p=25}}.</ref> Astride a major artery of commerce between [[northern Europe]] and [[southwestern Asia]], Khazaria became one of the foremost trading em ...tiers and subjects felt his ability to reason would become impaired by old age. They would then kill the Qağan.</ref><ref name="Noonan 2001 77">{{harvnb|
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  • ...oung Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union|Young Pioneers]], and at the age of 14 might graduate to the [[Komsomol]] (Young Communist League). Ultimate ...that followed, its meaning altered from commune-type democracy to rule by iron-discipline.{{sfn|Harding|1996|p=160}} By now, Lenin had concluded that only
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