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• Rabban Bar Sauma
  |honorific-prefix = [[Rebbe|Rabban]]<br/><small>(Master in [[Aramaic]])</small> ...4|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-28529-3|pages=670–}}</ref> and Bordeaux in the West, meeting with the major rulers of the period.]]
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• History of Xinjiang
  [[File:China-Xinjiang.png|thumb|200px|Xinjiang's location in the [[People's Republic of China]]]] ...ntier") when the region was reconquered by the Manchu-led [[Qing dynasty]] in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the [[People's Republic of China]], having
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• Western Yugur language
  ...-last=Johanson|volume=|others=Contributor Éva Ágnes Csató|edition=|year=1998|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cg ...of China|first=James|last=Olson|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1998|page=377}}</ref>
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• Yahballaha III
  ..., the monk [[Rabban Bar Sauma]], to become the first Asian ambassador to [[Europe]]. ...thumb|A young man, possibly Uyghur or Chinese, from a [[Nestorian Church]] in [[Gaochang]], China, [[Tang dynasty|Tang period]], 602-654 AD]]
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• Uyghurs
  |region5={{flag|Turkey}} ([[Minorities_in_Turkey#Uyghurs|Uyghurs in Turkey]]) ...k Shichor|author2=East-West Center|title=Ethno-diplomacy, the Uyghur hitch in Sino-Turkish relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IR4tAQAAIAAJ|y
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• Yuliy Kim
  ...ion}} (1936–1991) → {{Flag|Russia}} (1991–present), {{Flag|Israel}} (1998–present) | movement = [[dissident movement in the Soviet Union]]
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• Kim Jong-il
  ...]] (1982–1986), [[Ryongsong]] (1986–1990), 575th (1990–1998), 666th (1998–2003), 649th (2003–2009), 333rd (2009–2011) ...the [[List of countries by number of troops|fourth-largest standing army]] in the world. Kim's leadership is thought to have been even more authoritarian
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• Economy of Kazakhstan
  ...usiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/kazakhstan |title=Ease of Doing Business in Kazakhstan |publisher=Doingbusiness.org |accessdate=2017-01-24 }}</ref> ...an financial crisis|August financial crisis]] in [[Russia]]. A bright spot in 1999 was the recovery of international [[petroleum]] prices, which, combine
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• Peremyotnoye
  |population_as_of =1998 ...rn [[Kazakhstan]]. It is the administrative center of [[Zelenov District]] in [[West Kazakhstan Region]]. Population: {{Kz-census2009|4,308|punct=;}} {{K
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• Astana
  |pushpin_map_caption = The location of Astana in Kazakhstan |established_date = in 1830 as Akmoly{{sfn|Pospelov|1993|pp=24–25}}
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• Aslan Maskhadov
  ...atchagaev|first1=Mairbek|last2=|first2=|year=2005|title=The role of Sufism in the Chechen resistance|journal=North Caucasus Analysis|volume=6|issue=16|pa ...ssian army. He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005.<ref>[http://lenta.ru/articles/2005/12/02/bunker/ Кавказ:
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• Akmol
  |native_name = Ақмол <!-- for cities whose native name is not in English --> |map_caption = Location in [[Kazakhstan]]
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• Ken Alibek
  [[File:Alibek.jpg|thumb|320px|right|<center>'''Ken Alibek''' in 2003.]] ...[[microbiologist]] and [[biological warfare]] (BW) expert. He rose rapidly in the ranks of the [[Soviet Army]] to become the First Deputy Director of [[B
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• Mayak
  ...к», from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing plutonium production reactors and a reproce ...hernobyl]] in Ukraine and [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|Fukushima]] in Japan.<ref name=":0" />
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• Main Uralian Fault
  ...iddle of the [[Ural Mountains]] for over 2,000&nbsp;km. It separates both Europe from Asia and the three, or four, western megazones of the Urals from the t ...et al. Mountain building processes during continent–continent collision in the Uralides. ''Earth-Science Reviews'', Volume 89, Issues 3-4, August 2008
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• Altaic languages
  ...h Asia|North]], [[Central Asia|Central]], and [[West Asia]], and [[Eastern Europe]] ...golian, and Tungusic are unrelated." Johanna Nichols, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1992, Chicago), pg. 4.</ref><ref>"Careful examination indic
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• Golden Mountains of Altai
  | Region = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Europe|Europe]] | Year = 1998
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• Seima-Turbino phenomenon
  ...cavated around 1914, and the Turbino cemetery in [[Perm]], first excavated in 1924.<ref>A Dictionary of Archaeology, edited by Ian Shaw, Robert Jameson, The [[Altai Mountains]] in what is now southern [[Russia]] and central [[Mongolia]] have been identifi
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• Caspian Sea
  ...is in an [[endorheic basin]] (a basin without outflows) located between [[Europe]] and [[Asia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Caspian Sea|url=http://www.sheppardsof ...ains]] and to the west of the vast steppe of [[Central Asia]]. The sea bed in the southern part reaches as low as 1023 m below sea level, which is the se
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• Aral Sea
  |caption=The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right) ...abbr=on}}<br>(2004, four lakes)<br>{{Convert|28687|km2|mi2|0|abbr=on}}<br>(1998, two lakes)<br>{{Convert|68000|km2|mi2|-2|abbr=on}}<br>(1960, one lake)<br>
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• Akhmetzhan Yessimov
  |term_start3 = February 1998 |term_end3 = August 1998
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• Akezhan Kazhegeldin
  ....org/newsline/2003/09/5-NOT/not-190903.asp?po=y |title=Government pressure in run-up to Kazakh Council Elections |accessdate=2006-10-06 |deadurl=bot: unk In 1998 he was elected President of the [[Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
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• LGBT history in Kazakhstan
  [[Homosexuality]] in [[Kazakhstan]] was decriminalised in 1998.<ref name="History">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-2592759 {{Asia topic|LGBT history in}}
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• Silk Road
  | 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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• Leonid Brezhnev
  |caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 ...beginning of [[Era of Stagnation|an era of economic and social stagnation in the Soviet Union]].
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• Almaz Sharman
  ...a citizen of the United States, Sharman has more than 30 years experience in biomedical and clinical science, and healthcare management. ...1981, and Kulziya Askarova, medical doctor and radiologist. He was raised in the [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]].
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• White-tailed eagle
  | image_caption = In captivity ...usin of the [[bald eagle]] and occupies the same [[ecological niche]], but in [[Eurasia]].
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• Red-footed falcon
  ...nderer to western Europe, and in August 2004 a red-footed falcon was found in [[North America]] for the first time on the island of [[Martha's Vineyard]] ...–|34|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length with a wingspan of {{convert|65|–|75|cm|in|abbr=on}}. The average mass is {{convert|155|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref name=Wasse
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• Mute swan
  .... It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the beak, which is larger in males. ...–49 |isbn=3-490-12518-5}}</ref> Both ''cygnus'' and ''olor'' mean "swan" in [[Latin]]; ''cygnus'' is a variant form of ''cycnus'', a borrowing from [[G
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• Caspian gull
  ...|abbr=on}} and the [[Tarsus (skeleton)|tarsus]] is {{convert|5.8|to|7.7|cm|in|abbr=on}}.<ref name=Olsen/> The Caspian gull has a long, slender bill, acce ...ll numbers are now seen regularly in [[Great Britain|Britain]], especially in [[South-east England]], [[East Anglia]] and the [[English Midlands|Midlands
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• Dalmatian pelican
  ...family. It breeds from southeastern [[Europe]] to [[India]] and [[China]] in swamps and shallow lakes. The nest is a crude heap of vegetation. ...ving bird, rivaling those of the [[great albatross]]es (''Diomedea'' ssp., in particular the two largest species, the [[wandering albatross]] and [[south
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• European water vole
  ...ld, on average, water voles only live about five months. Maximum longevity in captivity is two and a half years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mammal.org ...is claimed as {{convert|140|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref>Morand, S., & Poulin, R. (1998). Density, body mass and parasite species richness of terrestrial mammals.
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• Caspian seal
  ..., these [[marine mammal]]s populate the Northern Caspian. As the ice melts in the warmer season, they can be found on the mouths of the [[Volga River|Vol ...th during an earlier part of the [[Quaternary]] period and became isolated in the landlocked Caspian Sea when continental ice sheets melted.
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• Saiga antelope
  ...18th century. The Mongolian subspecies (''S. t. mongolica'') is found only in western Mongolia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Saiga/mongolian Saiga (''Saiga tatar ...=G.B.|authorlink=George Schaller|title=Wildlife of the Tibetan steppe|date=1998|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, USA|isbn=978-0-226-
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• Turkmenian kulan
  ...ive to [[Central Asia]]. It was declared [[Endangered species|Endangered]] in 2016.<ref name=IUCN/> ...Israel]], where the subspecies are making hybrids with [[Persian onager]]s in the wild.
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• Eurasian wolf
  | image_caption = Eurasian wolf at Polar Zoo in Bardu, Norway ...nd [[Thracians|Thracian]] cultures, whilst having an ambivalent reputation in early [[Germanic mythology|Germanic]] cultures.<ref name="boitani2005"/>
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• Iris spuria
  ...mental plant in [[temperateness|temperate]] regions and hybridized for use in the garden. It has several [[subspecies]]; ''[[Iris spuria subsp. carthalin ...er= botany.cz |accessdate=27 February 2015}}</ref> that is about 2&nbsp;cm in diameter,<ref name=isles>A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin and D. M. Moore {{Googl
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• Elections in Kazakhstan
  ...e:KazakhBallotBox.jpg|thumb|200px|Ballot boxes, Kazakh flag and state seal in an Astana polling place before the 2007 legislative elections.]] '''Elections in Kazakhstan''' are held on a national level to elect a [[President of Kazakh
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• Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia
  ...y all of [[Asia]] (as well as [[Mongol invasion of Europe|parts of Eastern Europe]]) save for [[Japan]], the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate of E ...ess than a year later, when a Mongol caravan and its envoys were massacred in the Khwarezmian city of [[Otrar]].
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• Sasanian Empire
  ...|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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• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)
  ...book|title=Historical Atlas of the 19th Century World, 1783-1914|url=|year=1998|publisher=Barnes & Noble Books|isbn=978-0-7607-3203-8|page=5.19}}</ref><ref ...ate unless Chung Hao was released and this was backed by the other powers. In August 1880 Chung Hao was released and negotiations resumed. The Treaty of
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• Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
  ...es such as the [[Khazar Correspondence]], according to which at some point in the 8th–9th centuries, the ruling elite of the Khazars was said by [[Juda ...ate it.<ref name=rubin /> Despite skepticism, he reformulated the concept in 2016 by developing a novel method of genetic analysis that uses the fringe
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• Khazars
  ...72|pp=25–71|}}. This figure has been calculated on the basis of the data in both Herlihy and Russell's work.</ref> ...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
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• Politics of Kazakhstan
  ...ve power]] is exercised by the government. [[Legislative power]] is vested in both the [[Forms of government|government]] and the two chambers of parliam ...isters in the Cabinet. [[Bakhytzhan Sagintayev]] became the Prime Minister in September 2016.
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• National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  ...tle=KNB Gives Kazakh Uranium Company Head New Lawyer|periodical=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}</ref> ...tee of the Republic of Kazakhstan''' ('''NSC''') is an intelligence agency in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name="CACI"/> It was founded on 13 July 1992.<ref>{{cit
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• Government of Kazakhstan
  ...ve power]] is exercised by the government. [[Legislative power]] is vested in both the [[government]] and the two chambers of parliament. ...ountries in government efficiency, according to the list.<ref name="wef"/> In particular, Kazakhstan is ahead of Belgium and France.<ref name="wef"/>
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• Kyoto Protocol
  ...ut binding targets}} {{legend|#EEEE00|Annex B parties with binding targets in the first period but which withdrew from the Protocol}} {{legend|orange|Sig | date_expiration = in force<br>(first commitment period expired 31 December 2012)<ref>http://unfc
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• Foreign relations of Kazakhstan
  ...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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• Larry C. Napper
  | term_end2=October 1, 1998 ...947) served as the [[United States Ambassador]] to [[Latvia]] from 1995 to 1998 and as the U.S. Ambassador to [[Kazakhstan]] from 2001 to 2004.<ref name=SE
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• Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  | commander-in-chief = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] | commander-in-chief_title =
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