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  • ...h partridge''', '''Hungarian partridge''', or '''hun''', is a [[gamebird]] in the pheasant family [[Phasianidae]] of the order [[Galliformes]], gallinace ...[[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].<ref name=Long1981/> A popular gamebird in vast areas of North America, it is commonly known as "Hungarian partridge"
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  • ...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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  • |''Agrionemys horsfieldii baluchiorum'' <small>Artner, 2003</small> ...ic name]], ''horsfieldii'', and the common name "Horsfield's tortoise" are in honor of the [[Americans|American]] [[Natural history|naturalist]] [[Thomas
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  • | image_caption = A Bactrian camel in the [[Shanghai Zoo]] ...side has only one hump.</ref> Its population of two million exists mainly in the [[Domestication|domesticated]] form.<ref name=EDGE>{{cite web| url= htt
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  • ...its basionym ''Andropogon bladhii''), this plant name was first published in ''Proceedings of the [[Royal Society of Queensland]]'' 80(6): 62–64. 1969 ...he basionym of ''B.&nbsp;bladhii'') was originally described and published in ''Observationes Botanicae'' 2: 27. 1781. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropic
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  • |image caption = flower head of Iris tenuifolia in Kazakhstan. ...Union]] republics of); [[Kazakhstan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Mongolia]] and in [[China]]. It has long greyish-green leaves, short stem and pale violet, li
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |place=[[Central Asia]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]], [[China]] ...inally complete when [[Genghis Khan]] conquered the [[Khwarizmian Empire]] in 1221.
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  • |place=[[Central Asia]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]] ...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
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  • ...itory and most significantly a revived Iranian national spirit and culture in an Islamic form.<ref>The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise ...]], [[Turkmenistan]], and [[Uzbekistan]]). The Tahirid capital was located in [[Nishapur]].
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  • |caption=Qara Khitai in Asia, c. 1200 AD. ...ch they would soon [[Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran|invade in 1219]].
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  • [[Image:Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png|thumb|300px|Scythia and Parthia in about 170 BC (before the [[Yuezhi]] invaded Bactria).]] ...in]] and [[Taklamakan desert]] region of [[Northwest China]], they settled in [[Kingdom of Khotan|Khotan]] and [[Kashgar]] which were at various times [[
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  • ...asanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran'', I.B. Tauris, 2008. (p. 4)</ref> ...|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
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  • ...n 1879''': <br> 3,500 troops <br> '''In 1881''': <br> 7,100 troops <br> '''In 1883–1885''': <br> 1,500 troops ...e:Bandera de Kokand.svg|23px]] '''In 1853''': <br> ~12,000 troops <br> '''In 1865''': <br> ~36,000 troops
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...to 71 countries and territories, ranking the [[Kazakhstani passport]] 67th in terms of travel freedom (tied with Namibian and Thai passports) according t ...January 2003), [[Nepal]] (16 February 2003), [[Madagascar]] (28 September 2003), [[Mauritius]] (19 January 2004), [[Tuvalu]] (15 October 2006) and [[Mozam
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