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  • |subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]] ...f gold coins and jewelry. The source of such legends was perhaps confirmed by the archaeological finds of various coins and jewelry.
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  • | country = Kazakhstan | purpose = Irrigation, power
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  • | country = Tajikistan | purpose = Irrigation, power
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  • | country = [[Uzbekistan]]<br/>Tajikistan ...s controlled by Tajikistan, while the Farkhad hydropower station, operated by [[Uzbekenergo]], is located on the territory of Uzbekistan.<ref name=uznews
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  • | country = [[Uzbekistan]]/[[Turkmenistan]] | purpose = Irrigation, power
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  • | country = Uzbekistan | purpose = Irrigation, power
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  • ...w.iranicaonline.org|access-date=29 December 2013}}</ref><br>{{flag|Iraq}} (by [[Kurds]] and [[Iraqi Turkmens|Turkmens]])<ref name=IMFA>{{cite web|title=2 ...ch, 2008. "The traditional Nowrouz/Nowrooz celebrations, mainly celebrated by the Kurdish population in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, and other parts of
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  • ...ArticleID=454 2004 archive KAZAKHSTAN: Week by Week News Bulletin Released by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the State of Israel]</ref> ...the Republic of Kazakhstan|National Security Committee]] claimed that the country's Ministry of Defense knowingly bought faulty artillery and defense systems
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  • ...known as [[Karafuto Prefecture]]) in order to fill labour shortages caused by [[World War II]].<ref name=Byong>{{cite news|last=Ban|first=Byung-yool|titl ...a few (mainly those who have studied Standard Korean) refer to themselves by this name; instead, Koryo-saram has come to be the preferred term.<ref name
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  • ...State Statistics Committee of Ukraine: The distribution of the population by nationality and mother tongue]</ref> ...tem of government. In the 13th century, Kara-Khanid Khanate was destroyed by the Turkic [[Khwarazmian dynasty]], a vassal of the Qara Khitai.
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  • |subdivision_type = Country ...126.</ref><ref>Bonavia, Judy. ''The Silk Road: Xi'an to Kashgar.'' Revised by Christopher Baumer (2004), pp. 306-319. Odyssey Publications. ISBN 962-217-
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  • ...ated in [[Karaganda Region|Karaganda region]] - more than 8.5 billion tons by the end of 2012. ...accumulated all over the country without controls. This is largely caused by the following factors:
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  • | subdivision_type1 = Country ...side. Aksu freezes in December and stays icebound until March. Because of irrigation, the river's flow into Lake Balkash is limited.
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  • |country = Uzbekistan ...' is a [[desert]] that has appeared since 1960 on the seabed once occupied by the [[Aral Sea]].<ref>[http://enrin.grida.no/aral/aralsea/english/arsea/ars
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  • ...ther four Central Asian states, or about twice the size of [[Alaska]]. The country borders [[Turkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan]], and [[Kyrgyzstan]] to the south; ...el, in the [[Mangystau]] province east of the [[Caspian Sea]]. Most of the country lies at between 200 and 300 meters above sea level, but Kazakhstan's Caspia
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  • |subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]] ...toxic chemicals{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} exposed to the wind by the retreating waters and, possibly, from [[chemical agents|chemical]] and
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  • | subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]] ...17,300 square kilometers in area. South Kazakhstan borders the neighboring country of [[Uzbekistan]] (and is very near the Uzbekistan capital [[Tashkent]]), a
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  • ...y 60 kilometres north of [[Almaty]]. The 140 kilometre long lake is formed by a dam on the [[Ili River]] which flows from the mountains in the east towar ...ed by 39&nbsp;km<sup>3</sup> to directly feed the Kapchagay Reservoir, and by 1987, Lake Balkash had reached its all-time low point in volume, dropping r
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  • ...'' (''Kara-Irtysh'' in Kazakh, or ''Cherny Irtysh'' in Russian) is applied by some authors, especially in Russia and Kazakhstan, to the upper course of t ...sport)|lock]], with a drop of {{convert|42|m|ft}}, allows river traffic to by-pass the [[dam]] at [[Ust-Kamenogorsk]].<ref>
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  • ...rs Run Backward", Time U.S., Frederic Golden; By Frederic Golden, reported by: Erik Amfitheatr, Monday, June 14, 1982; web-edition: http://www.time.com/t ...ргей Яковлевич Жук]]}}). Some design plans were developed by Zhuk's institute, but without much publicity or actual construction work.<r
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  • <!-- *** Country *** --> | country = Kyrgyzstan
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  • |caption = The Caspian Sea as captured by the [[Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer|MODIS]] on the orbiting ...h century the Caspian Sea was still not well explored and mapped. 1570 map by [[Fernão Vaz Dourado]].]]
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  • ...20px|link=Hero of Socialist Labour]]<br>([[Awards and decorations received by Leonid Brezhnev|Full list of awards and decorations]]) ...n of the Soviet military during this time. His tenure as leader was marked by the beginning of [[Era of Stagnation|an era of economic and social stagnati
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  • Partly because of the country's enormous semi-arid [[steppe]], the Soviet government used [[Kazakhstan]] ...tremes, and agricultural soil has been damaged by salt deposits and eroded by wind. Desertification has eliminated substantial tracts of agricultural lan
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  • ...tral Asia''' refers to the section of [[Central Asia]] formerly controlled by the [[Soviet Union]], as well as the time period of Soviet administration ( ...city to the Young Bukharans. As Russian sources report, the emir responded by murdering the Bolshevik delegation, along with several hundred Russian inha
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  • {{Infobox Former Country ...inistration, until the late 3rd-century) spoken in the north and east, and by the [[seven Parthian clans]]){{sfn|Daryaee|2008|pp=99-100}}
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  • ...kmenistan]] in the southwest. Before the Russians came the north was held by the Kazakh steppe nomads and their ancestors while the south was approximat ...enistan were taken. In 1885 expansion south toward Afghanistan was blocked by the British. In 1893-95 they occupied the high Pamirs in the southeast.
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