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  • ...g the [[Silk Road]] in [[Kazakhstan]]. Otrar was an important town in the history of [[Central Asia]], situated on the borders of settled and agricultural ci ...and animals. Otrar is mentioned in numerous sources such as medieval Arab, Persian and Turkic authors. These sources refer to it as one of the [[Zhetysu]] (Se
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  • ==History== ...rkestan, Kazakhstan.jpg|thumbnail|262px|Backside view of mausoleum where [[Persian miniature painting]] can be best observed.]]
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  • |[[Persian people|Persians]] ...people (Iran)|Tats]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Nowruz in Takestan and Taleqan (Persian)|url=http://takpress.ir/1393/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D
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  • ...cover onto a wooden ring with glue and cloth ties. This is similar to the Persian daira and the Turkish def. Some daira have metal pieces attached to give th ==History==
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  • ...[[Iran]] and [[Central Asia]]. Its name comes from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word for "two strings", دو تار ''dotār'' (< دو ''do'' "two", تا {{see also|Lute#History and evolution of the lute}}
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  • |sovereignty_type = [[History of Kazakhstan|Formation]] ...untry since then, and is characterised as authoritarian, with a government history of human rights abuses and suppression of political opposition.<ref name="t
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  • ...антуу}} or манты; [[Pashto language|Pashto]], [[Persian Language|Persian]], {{lang-ar|منتو}}) are [[dumpling]]s popular in most [[Turkic peoples == History ==
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  • ...ssolved in water is a primary ingredient of ''[[qurutob]],'' a traditional Persian dish in [[Tajik cuisine|Tajik]], [[Afghan cuisine|Afghan]] and [[Iranian cu ==History==
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  • == History == Early in the history of DMOZ, its staff gave representatives of selected companies, such as ''[[
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  • '''Buzkashi''' (literally "goat pulling" in [[Persian language|Persian]]), (similar games are known as '''kokpar''',<ref>[http://www.independent. ==History==
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  • ==History== ...of all countries, unite!". Above the inscription in Tajik language on the Persian letter "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"
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  • The '''history of the Jews in Central Asia''' dates back centuries, where [[Jews]] <nowiki The history of the Jews in Kyrgyzstan is linked directly to the history of the [[Bukhara|Bukharian]] [[Jews]] of [[Uzbekistan]]. Until the 20th cen
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  • ...ماتی}} in [[Ottoman turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] written with the [[Perso-Arabic script]]. ==History==
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  • ==History== ...]] which connects Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, [[Iran]] and ends at [[Persian Gulf]]. After Bereket, the route runs parallel to the [[Karakum Canal]]. It
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  • ...“to register and inventory books, newspapers and manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and, mainly, in all Turkic languages”. The work in the library afforded h ...nt countries. He penned around 170 publications on the language, folklore, history and ethnography of the Turkic peoples of the central and western [[China]],
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  • == History == |Persian
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  • ==History== ...%27Chinese%27+whom+they+took+prisoner%2C+and+the+khan+|title=The Cambridge History of China: Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 1|author=John King Fairbank|year=197
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  • ==History== ...4 Демоскоп Weekly - Туркмениская СССР]</ref> Their history can be traced back to the Soviet days, particularly after [[World War II]],
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  • ...uropean languages from [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] (''tātār'', "mounted messenger"). From the beginning, the extra ''r'' The Persian word is first recorded in the 13th century in reference to the hordes of [[
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  • ==History== {{Main|History of Chechnya|Nakh peoples}}
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  • | encyclopedia = The Cambridge History of Iran ...e-shift from [[Middle Iranian languages|Middle Iranian]] to Turkic and New Persian was predominantly the result of an ''elite dominance'' process.<ref>A. H. N
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  • ...khanid]] period, the Yagma were recorded in [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], and [[China|Chinese]] accounts as a prominent and powerful political ent ==History==
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  • ...aliq]] under Mongol rule. According to Gregory [[Barhebraeus]] he was of [[History of the Uyghur people|Turkic]] [[Kingdom of Qocho|Uyghur]] origin.<ref>{{cit ...book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqb7L-pKCV8C&pg=PA377 |title=A history of Chinese civilization|author=Jacques Gernet|year=1996|publisher=Cambridge
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  • {{History of Xinjiang}} The recorded '''history of the area now known as [[Xinjiang]]''' dates to the 2nd millennium BC. Th
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  • ...s for the history of the Kazakh Khanates of the 15-18th cc. (Extracts from Persian and Turkic literary works)''), [[Almaty|Alma Ata]], Nauka Publishers, 1969 ...s for the history of the Kazakh Khanates of the 15-18th cc. (Extracts from Persian and Turkic literary works)''), [[Almaty|Alma Ata]], Nauka Publishers, 1969
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  • ...> ''Huíhú'' ({{zh|c=回鹘}}) in 788 or 809 as mentioned in the ''[[Old History of the Five Dynasties]]''.{{sfn|Golden|1992|p=155}} Modern etymological exp Throughout its history, the term ''Uyghur'' has taken on an increasingly expansive definition. In
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  • | rowclass2 = mergedrow| label2 = [[Persian language|Persian]]: | data2 = <div style="text-align: right;">{{lang|pr|<big>سازمان ه ...Central Asian states connected to the Mediterranean through Turkey, to the Persian Gulf via Iran, and to the Arabian sea via Pakistan. The current framework o
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  • ...[[mountain pass]] between [[China]] and [[Central Asia]].<ref>''Cambridge History of China: The People's Republic, Part 2 : Revolutions Within the Chinese Re == History ==
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  • ==History== The first records of Talgar settlement were made by a [[Persian people|Persian]] geographer in a medieval geographical treatise [[Hudud al-'Alam]] ("Borde
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  • ...niform" [[Orkhon script]], is named for the town. Talas secured a place in history by virtue of the [[Battle of Talas]] (751 CE), which was fought between for ==History==
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  • ==History== ...[[Persian Empire]]. It owes its long history of habitation to a mixing of Persian culture and science with the native Turkic/Mongol tribal clans. South Kazak
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  • ...inds found in [[Samarqand]] and other cities of the early [[Persian Empire|Persian]] empires.<ref name="autogenerated2004"/> ...probably refers to 'a place of shallow water.'<ref>Devin DeWeese, "Sacred History for a Central Asian Town: Saints, Shrines, and Legends of Origin in Histori
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  • ...12 |issue=Issue 2, Fall 2001 |pages=261–291 |publisher=Journal of World History}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Mallory, J. P. |author2=Mair, Victor H. ...tau.'' Zech, W. (Ed.). Pamir and Tian Shan. Contribution of the Quaternary History. International Workshop at the University of Bayreuth. Abstracts. Bayreuth,
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  • The second part of the name (''Darya'' دریا) means river in Persian. The current name dates only from the 18th century.
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  • ...Mark Elliott, [http://www.lonelyplanet.com/shop_pickandmix/previews/iran-5-history-preview.pdf p. 28], Lonely Planet Publications, ISBN 978-1-74104-293-1</ref ...ia/hyrcania.html Hyrcania]. www.livius.org. Retrieved 2012-05-20.</ref> In Persian antiquity, as well as in modern [[Iran]], it is known as the {{lang|fa|در
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  • In some languages (Russian, Polish, Persian), the word is also used for [[hubcap]] (for a car wheel's hub; see also the [[Category:History of Asian clothing]]
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  • ==History== ...e, livestock and slaves. Civilisations active in trading during the road's history included [[Scythia]], [[Ancient Greece|Ancient]] and [[Byzantine Greece]],
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  • ...he protection of the trade route.<ref>Xinru, Liu, ''The Silk Road in World History'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 11.</ref> ...te=2017-02-23}}</ref> Japan,<ref name=":4" /> the [[Outline of South Asian history|Indian subcontinent]], [[Greater Persia|Persia]], [[Europe]], the [[Horn of
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  • ...azakhstan]] scholar of oriental studies, historian, philologist, expert on Persian and Turkic manuscripts, researcher and teacher. ...shed]] during his lifetime, including translations of sources, research on history of [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] and [[Uigur]] peoples and other subjects.
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  • ...tern [[Germany]]. Some birds migrate south as far as the [[Red Sea]] and [[Persian Gulf]] while others disperse into [[Western Europe]], in countries such as This form has a troubled taxonomic history, summarised in the [[European herring gull|herring gull]] article. The Casp
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  • {{distinguish2|other subspecies / ecotypes of Asiatic Wild asses like the Persian onager, Indian khur, or Turkmen kulan}} ...rnández-Giménez |year=1999 |title=Sustaining the steppes: a geographical history of pastoral land use in Mongolia |journal=[[Geographical Review]] |volume=8
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  • ...seven rivers" (literally "seven waters") in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] and Persian, to the rivers which flow from the south-east into [[Lake Balkhash]]. ==History==
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  • British and Persian forces briefly tried to reach [[Baku]] in [[Azerbaijan]] and the Turkmen po ...second city of [[Uzbekistan]], the majority of the city's inhabitants are Persian-speaking [[Tājik people|Tajiks]]. The city a became rich trading center as
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  • {{History of Kazakhstan}} ...r+massacre&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TNLvUKbeNIiHswaZ_YDIDg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ Studies in History, Volume 4]</ref><ref name="google4">Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making Of
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  • ...of the [[Mongol Empire]] to invade the Khwarezmid Empire. According to the Persian historian [[Minhaj-i-Siraj|Juzjani]], Genghis Khan had originally sent the ....<ref name=Hildinger>Hildinger, Eric. ''Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700''</ref>
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  • {{History of the Turks pre-14th century}} {{History of Kazakhstan}}
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  • ...資料論烏孫歷史的幾個重大問題 (Important questions about the history of Wusun arising from the contemporary documents and archaeological investi ==History==
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  • ...to 600 A.D.|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1170959|journal=Social Science History|volume=3|issue=3/4|page=129|doi=10.2307/1170959|last1=Taagepera|first1=Rein {{History of the Turks pre-14th century}}
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  • == History == whose origin is Iranian (in [[Persian language|Persian]]: ''suy'' means "toward"+ ''ab'' for "water", "rivers").<ref>[http://www.t
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  • ...spirit and culture in an Islamic form.<ref>The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (pgs. 81–82) – Bernard ...[Tahirid dynasty]]''', (Persian: سلسله طاهریان) was an Iranian Persian dynasty that ruled over the northeastern part of [[Greater Iran]], in the r
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