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  • ...= [[Islam]] ([[Sufism]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Chechnya: Kadyrov Uses 'Folk Islam' For Political Gain|url= http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1079237.html| ...Akhmat''', was the Chief [[Mufti]] of the [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] in the 1990s during and after the [[First Chechen War]]. At the outbreak of th
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  • |pushpin_map_caption =Location in Kazakhstan ...алинск'''}}, '''Karkaraly''', '''Karkaralinsk''') is the oldest town in Karaganda Oblast ([[Karaganda Region]]). Karkaraly is also known as '''Kark
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  • {{For|the villages in Iran|Taraz, Iran (disambiguation){{!}}Taraz, Iran}} |pushpin_map_caption =Location in Kazakhstan
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  • | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan ...Sayram Su River, which rises at the nearby 4000-meter mountain Sayram Su. In medieval times, the city and countryside were located on the banks of the [
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  • ...thor=David Brophy|title=Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84bPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT319&dq=qil ..., a state led by the native [[Oirats]] in the 18th century which was based in the area.
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  • ...rsal''' was an ambitious project to divert the flow of the Northern rivers in the [[Soviet Union]], which "uselessly" drain into the [[Arctic Ocean]], so ...the 1960s through the early 1980s. The controversial project was abandoned in 1986, primarily for environmental reasons, without much actual construction
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  • |caption=The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right) ...f 1853 published for the ''Journal of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]'' in London]]
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  • ...hina and [[Kazakhstan]]. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transp ...on]] use a wider [[rail gauge]] than most of the rest of Europe as well as China. Recently, however, the Trans-Siberian has regained ground as a viable land
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  • | designation1_free1value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia-Pacific]] |piccap="Silk Road" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
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  • ...through many territorial divisions before the current borders were created in the 1920s and 1930s. [[File:SovietCentralAsia1922.svg|right|250px|thumb|Map of Soviet Central Asia in 1922 with the Turkestan ASSR and the Kyrgyz ASSR]]
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  • |<!-- only fill in the start/end event entry if a specific article exists. Don't just say "abo |religion = [[Islam]]
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  • ...est of the Islamic states. The Mongol expansion would ultimately culminate in the conquest of virtually all of [[Asia]] (as well as [[Mongol invasion of ...ess than a year later, when a Mongol caravan and its envoys were massacred in the Khwarezmian city of [[Otrar]].
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  • ...right|300px|alt=World map, with Kazakhstan in green|Location of Kazakhstan in [[Central Asia]]]] ...stan. Modern ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' appeared from 40,000 to 12,000 years ago in southern, central, and eastern Kazakhstan. After the end of the [[last glac
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  • ...entral Asia, the Great Steppe and Iran, 1700-1750," in ''Shifts and Drifts in Nomad-Sedentary Relations'' Edited by Stefan Leder and Bernhard Streck. Wie ...ref> The Zunghar Khanate expanded at the expense of the [[Kazakh Khanate]] in the west, though this also meant the inclusion of the [[Great_juz|Senior Ho
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  • ...744. Some Arabic sources, however, record that he was killed by the Arabs in 739. ...chuo'') of Chinese sources, was the leader of a small Turkic tribe, known in the Chinese sources as Chu Muguen, living south of [[Lake Balkash]] between
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  • ...= [[Sinicization|Sinicized]] [[Khitan people|Khitan]] empire<br />in [[Central Asia]] |image_map_caption = Qara Khitai in Asia, c. 1200.
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  • [[Image:Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png|thumb|300px|Scythia and Parthia in about 170 BC (before the [[Yuezhi]] invaded Bactria).]] ...y|Han]] and [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] dynasties of [[History of China|Imperial China]].
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  • ...|year=1997|publisher=[[Eisenbrauns]]|isbn=978-1-57506-020-0|page=284|quote=In the Middle Persian period (Parthian and Sasanian Empires), Aramaic was the ...an language|Parthian]] (administration, until the late 3rd-century) spoken in the north and east, and by the [[seven Parthian clans]]){{sfn|Daryaee|2008|
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  • |image_map_caption = Provinces of Russian Turkestan in 1900 ...amarkand Citadel.JPG|left|300px|thumb|The Defence of the Samarkand Citadel in 1868]]
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  • *[[Islam]] ...72|pp=25–71|}}. This figure has been calculated on the basis of the data in both Herlihy and Russell's work.</ref>
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  • |region1 = {{flagcountry|China}} ...rkic%20naimans&f=false">{{cite book|last1=Frederick W. Mote|title=Imperial China 900-1800|date=2003|page=407}}</ref>
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  • ...sia and Belarus, transformed into the [[Eurasian Economic Community]] then in 2015 into the [[Eurasian Economic Union]]. President Nazarbayev has priorit ...n&id=132061</ref> Kazakhstan has called for “intra-regional integration in Central Asia” and international integration of the region.<ref name=TW1>{
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  • ...), (also referred to as Ospan) fighter for the freedom of the Qazaq people in [[Xinjiang]] *[[Janabil]] (born 1934), politician in China
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