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  • ...hose ruins lie near the Syr Darya to the southeast. Throughout most of the medieval and early-modern period it was known as '''Yasi''' or '''Shavgar''' and aft Other important historical sites in the city include a medieval bath-house and four other mausoleums, one dedicated to Timur's granddaughte
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  • ..., Härke, H., Ruzanova, S.A., Tazhekeev, A.A. & Modin, I.N. (2012). "Early medieval urbanization and state formation east of the Aral Sea: Fieldwork and intern [[Category:Central Asia]]
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  • ...n [[Kazakhstan]]. Otrar was an important town in the history of [[Central Asia]], situated on the borders of settled and agricultural civilizations. It wa ...to many birds 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 [
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  • ...ation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia|Asia-Pacific]] ...has survived as one of the best-preserved of all [[Architecture of Central Asia#Timurid architecture|Timurid constructions]]. Its creation marked the begin
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  • {{Music of Central Asia}} ...said to have been invented by the legendary shaman Qorqyt, long before the medieval ages.
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  • ...ccessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref> Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically, generating 60% of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil ...y of [[Eastern Iranian languages|Iranian stock]] who migrated from Central Asia to southern Russia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC}}</ref>
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  • ...mare's milk]]. The drink remains important to the peoples of the [[Central Asia]]n [[steppe]]s, of Huno-Bulgar, [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] and Mongol origin ...lomar College: "In the Indian subcontinent and much of Central and Western Asia, dairy products are consumed frequently, but usually only after bacteria (l
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  • | region = [[Indian Subcontinent]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[Central Asia]], [[Middle East]], [[Horn of Africa]], [[North Africa]], ...[[Indian subcontinent]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[Central Asia]], [[Southwest Asia]], the [[Arabian Peninsula]], the [[Mediterranean]], the [[Horn of Africa]]
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  • ...= [[Bashkir cuisine|Bashkortostan]], [[Central Asian cuisine|Central Asia]], [[Kurdish cuisine|Kurdistan]], [[Middle Eastern cuisine|Middle East]] ([ ...W58bpMC&pg=PA1 Anthony Bryer. ''The Bizantine Porridge''. In: ''Studies in medieval history: presented to R.H.C. Davis'' by Ralph Henry Carless Davis, Henry Ma
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  • The '''history of the Jews in Central Asia''' dates back centuries, where [[Jews]] <nowiki/>have lived in countries in ...II]] many Jews fled from the European parts of the Soviet Union to central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan, making the Jewish community of Kyrgyzstan combined o
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  • The name ''Almaty'' has its roots in the medieval settlement ''Almatu'', that existed near the present-day city.{{citation ne ...the trade routes of the [[Silk Road]], which reached from China to western Asia and Europe. At that time, Almaty became one of the trade, craft and agricul
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  • ...red precious ancient [[manuscripts]], including the most important work of medieval Uyghur [[Buddhist]] literature - the Uyghur manuscript of the [[Golden Ligh ...rkic peoples of the central and western [[China]], [[Mongolia]], [[Central Asia]] and [[Kazakhstan]], [[Siberia]] and [[Volga]] regions. He was the first t
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  • ...or ''tamga'', some researchers believe that the Alasha are descended from medieval [[Naimans]]. However, some Alasha clans have tribal symbols similar to thos ...sha are descendants of the ancient [[Khalaj people]], who lived in Central Asia.
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  • ...II]] (1236–1276) and supposedly settled in the [[Dobruja]] region of the medieval [[Second Bulgarian Kingdom|Bulgarian kingdom]]. There they presumably mixed ...c comparison between the populations of the Balkans, Anatolia, and Central Asia, the results showed that the Gagauz are part of the Balkan genetic group.<r
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  • {{for|the medieval border-guards of the [[Kievan Rus]]|Chorni Klobuky}} ...f the [[Karakul sheep|Qaraqul]] breed of sheep which originated in Central Asia with archaeological evidence pointing to the breed being raised there conti
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  • ...]), the region also known as Eurasian sub-continent. Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the [[Kazakh Khanate]] ...015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/8039830/Kazakhs-striving-to-prove-Genghis-Khan-descent.html |tit
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  • *[[List of medieval Mongolian tribes and clans]] *Svat Soucek, "A History of Inner Asia". Cambridge University Press (2000). ISBN 0-521-65704-0.
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  • The '''Yagmas''', or '''Yaghmas''', were a medieval tribe of [[Turkic people]] that came to the forefront of history after the ...s and Early Islam|year = 1990|title = The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia|editor-last = Sinor|editor-first = Denis|pages = 355–357 |publisher = Cam
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  • ...rneys is of unique interest to modern historians, as it gives a picture of medieval Europe at the close of the Crusading period, painted by a keenly intelligen {{further information|Europeans in Medieval China}}
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  • ...Chinese, multicultural, settled by Han and Hui, and separated from Central Asia for over a century and a half.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FW8SB ...ean languages|Indo-European speakers]] who were settled in eastern Central Asia (possibly as far as [[Gansu]]) at that time. The [[Ordos culture]] in north
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