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...ght]] title since 2016, and previously the WBA [[light heavyweight]] title from 2010 to 2014. ...kly-boy-world-champion-beibut-shumenov-eluded-death-live-his-dreams |title=From sickly boy to world champion, Beibut Shumenov eluded death to live his drea

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...lve [[All-American]] titles while playing for the [[Alabama Crimson Tide]] from 2003 to 2007. ...|accessdate=20 May 2013}}</ref> In late spring of 2007, Polyakov graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor's degree in marketing major in in

...[[Fort Wayne, Indiana]])<ref>[https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/hoagland-richard-eugene Richard Eugene Hoagland (1950–)]</ref> is a caree From January 2011 to October 2013, he was the United States Deputy Ambassador to

...he Illegal Killing of Elephants - MIKE) must find external funding, mostly from donor countries and regional organizations such as the European Union. .... Other actions the Convention itself does not provide for but that derive from subsequent COP resolutions may be taken against the offending Party. These

...inaugurated "a renewal of military activity on a large scale, to which the people of western Europe…had not been accustomed since the first Napoleon had be ...ity of a nation to safeguard the health and physical well-being of its own people", knew there would always, especially in times of war, be a "need for volun

...ters") in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] and Persian, to the rivers which flow from the south-east into [[Lake Balkhash]]. ...vast uninhabitable sand-steppes on the south of Lake Balkhash. Southwards from these at the foot of the mountains and at the entrance to the valleys, ther

...of [[Abul Khair Khan]] the Kazakhs won major victories over the [[Dzungar people|Dzungar]] at the [[Bulanty River]] (1726) and at the [[Battle of Anrakay]] ...Federative Republic) (April 30, 1918 &ndash; October 27, 1924) was created from the [[Turkestan Krai]] of [[Imperial Russia]]. Its capital was [[Tashkent]]

...iplomat. Schuyler was one of the first three Americans to earn a [[Ph.D.]] from an American university;<ref>See, for instance, {{Cite journal | last1 = Ros ...n to study law at [[Yale Law School]], and received his law degree in 1863 from [[Columbia Law School]]. He began practicing law in New York, but did not

...1=3,000 [[Xiongnu]] cavalry and infantry with 10,000 cavalry reinforcement from [[Kangju]] ...years to build. It was probably<ref>The location near Taraz seems to come from the [[Hanshu]] or some commentary on it. The [[Zizhitongjian]] says it was

...ocated some 50&nbsp;km east from [[Bishkek]], and 8&nbsp;km west southwest from [[Tokmok]], in the [[Chui River]] valley, present-day [[Kyrgyzstan]]. ...he [[Silk Road]] in the 5th or 6th centuries. The name of the city derives from that of the [[Chui River|Suyab River]],<ref name=Suyab>Xue (1998), p. 136-1

...[Islam]], ruled by and named after the [[House of Sasan|Sasanian dynasty]] from 224 to 651 AD.<ref name=wiesehofer>{{harv|Wiesehofer|1996}}</ref><ref>{{cit ...ure]] in art, architecture, music and other subject matter was transferred from the Sasanians throughout the [[Muslim world]].<ref>Abdolhossein Zarinkoob:

...n attempt to conquer the [[Khanate of Khiva]]. [[Vasily Perovsky]] set out from [[Orenburg]] with 5,000 men, met an unusually cold winter, lost most of his ...ered the arrest of all Khivan merchants in Russian territory – about 572 people and 1,400,000 silver rubles in goods. The Khan was told that his subjects w

...[Khanate of Kokand|Kokand]] <br> [[Turkmens|Turkmen]] tribes <br> [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]] tribes <br> [[File:Flag of Afghanistan pre-1901.svg|border|23px]] ...forts along the northern border of Kyrgyzstan. 1864-1868 they moved south from Kyrgyzstan, captured Tashkent and Samarkand and dominated the Khanates of K

...hangir Khan''' (? -1652) - Kazakh Khan, the governor of the Kazakh Khanate from 1643 to 1652, the son of [[Esim Khan]]. ...e for Orbulak its small growth and a strong constitution received from the people nicknamed "Salqam Zhangir" which translates as "impressive, powerful Zhangi

...he 1720s to the 1750s, for which he was declared a "batyr" ("hero") by the people. ...ger allies, Ablai Khan took the opportunity to capture herds and territory from the Dzungars.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Peter C|last1=Perdue|title=China March

...stan]]. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Ber ...ian connects Moscow with Russian Pacific seaports such as [[Vladivostok]]. From the 1960s until the early 1990s the railway served as the primary land brid

...gainst Khiva and [[Emirate of Bukhara|Bukhara]], and the nomadic [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]] tribes. The railway had originally begun from Uzun-Ada on the [[Caspian Sea]], but the terminus was shifted north to the

| image_caption = '''Clockwise from top:''' Panoramic view of Aktau and the sea; Aktau Mosque; Rocky seacoast o ...tain" in Kazakh, which may be due to its cliffs that overlook the Caspian. From 1964 to 1991 city was known as '''Shevchenko''' ({{lang-ru|Шевченко

...t Union, Makhachkala has been affected by Islamist insurgents as spillover from the [[Second Chechen War]] when militants invaded Dagestan leading to a ren ...visited what is now Makhachkala in 1722, and the settlement bore his name from 1844 to 1921]]

...>|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref name="about-aral-sea">{{cite web| url=https://www.people-travels.com/aral-sea-tours/| title=About travel to Aral Sea| accessdate=201 ...ter years, the Aral Flotilla was provisioned, at substantial cost, by coal from the [[Donbass]].<ref name=michell/> (This was part of the [[Russian conques

...essdate=2011-02-21}}</ref> and of [[Mankashlak]] (Mankyshlak), a [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]] town<ref name="KTLOW"/> on the [[Silk Road]], are also nearby<ref The name Sherkala is from [[Persian language|Persian]] شیرقلعه and means 'Lion's Mountain'.<re

...ded in 1598 by Vasily Golovin and Ivan Voyeykov on the site of the [[Mansi people|Vogul]] settlement of Neromkar. There were major fires in 1674 and 1738. Th ...revent contraband. Guard posts were set up in the region to prevent people from slipping around the custom house.

...d at the Sports Palace on the avenue to them. Abay (street Novoshkolnaya). From this station, buses are not only in the field of human settlements and the ...om −49&nbsp;°C in January to 4&nbsp;°C in July, and record highs range from 8&nbsp;°C in January to 43&nbsp;°C in July.

{{redirect|Verniy|Soviet destroyer turned over from Japan|Japanese destroyer Hibiki (1932)}} ...Park]]; [[Kazakh-British Technical University]]; Panoramic view of Almaty from the hills of the [[Kok Tobe]]; [[Abay Opera House]]; [[Golden Warrior Monum

|foot_montage = '''Clockwise from top:''' Astana Downtown skyline and [[Bayterek Tower]], [[Kazakhstan Centra ...Kazakhstan, within the [[Akmola Region]], though administrated separately from the region as a city with special status. The 2014 census reported a popula

...rincipality with a medina with the same name as the territory that existed from the late eleventh century. In 1097 a struggle between Kutb al-Din Muhammad, ...s population was decreased after gradual drying of the steppe and [[Kalmyk people|Kalmyk]] raids began in 1620. Some Salur and Ersari Turkmens left the regio

...and then shared a twentieth-place tie with four other shooters, all hailed from Eastern Europe, in the [[Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 ...st 2004|accessdate=23 July 2015}}</ref> Three days later, Makarov improved from his disappointing feat in the air pistol to fire 557 points for a remarkabl

..., capital of [[Kyzylorda Region]] and former capital of the [[Kazak ASSR]] from 1925 to 1929. ...he capital of the [[Kazak ASSR]]. The name literally means ''a red city'', from the Turkic "кзыл" (''red''; used here in the common Soviet ideological

...Aral Sea and as a base to attack [[Kyzylorda|Ak Mechet]].<ref>This section from ‘An Indian Officer’, Russia’s March towards India,1894, page 160 and ...ebruary 2008}} exposed to the wind by the retreating waters and, possibly, from [[chemical agents|chemical]] and [[biological agents]] unsafely stored on t

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| image_caption = '''Clockwise from top:''' Panoramic view of Aktobe during winter; World War II memorial; Park ...ative center of [[Aktobe Region]]. In 2013, it had a population of 371,546 people. {{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

..., which seemed to them the lesser of two evils. In 1824, Siberian Cossacks from [[Omsk]] founded a fortress on the upper [[Ishim River]] named Akmolinsk, w ...cision to define Kazakhstan as the national state of the ethnically Kazakh people in the country's first constitution in 1993 and again in its second constit

...Корё сарам, [[Hangul]]: 고려사람) is the name which [[Korean people|ethnic Koreans]] in the [[post-Soviet states]] use to refer to themselves. ...rly 20th century, the ancestors of the Sakhalin Koreans came as immigrants from [[Gyeongsang]] and [[Jeolla]] provinces in the late 1930s and early 1940s,

.../people-profile.php?peo3=11317&rog3=KZ |title=Chechen of Kazakhstan Ethnic People Profile |publisher=Joshuaproject.net |date=1991-10-27 |accessdate=2014-02-0 |pop16 = 10,000 (including [[Kist people]])

...ine right turns before stopping at the tower. The Princess then descended from the litter and ascended the tower, and she sat with the Khan in the same ea ...n captive by the Xiajiasi khan Are (阿熱), but Are, who claimed ancestry from the [[Han Dynasty]] general [[Li Ling]] and thus a common ancestry with Tan

[[File:China-Xinjiang.png|thumb|200px|Xinjiang's location in the [[People's Republic of China]]]] ...y the Manchu-led [[Qing dynasty]] in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the [[People's Republic of China]], having been so since its founding year of 1949.

...i Tongjian]]'', vol. 53.</ref> was an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] [[khagan]] from 747 to 759 AD. His official titles were "''Ay Tengrida Qut Bolmish''" and " ...''Ghur'' ("the people"), i.e. " United people " or " free confederation of people (''Erkin Budun''), voluntarily bound into an alliance ".<ref>Element " Ghur

|strength2=Aq taghlik Afaqiyya Turkic Muslim followers<br/>[[Dolan people]]{{sfn|Bellér-Hann|2008|pages=21 ff.}} ...uddin) unsuccessfully tried to invade [[Kashgar]] and regain [[Altishahr]] from the [[Qing dynasty]].

...y his classmates in the secondary school for his small stature and retired from gymnastics in favor of boxing. Irina, whom Nellie Kim considered more talen ...t verdict, Kim was close to leaving gymnastics but persevered with support from Baidin. At the 1971 Junior USSR Championships, her first national competiti

| net_worth = <!-- Net worth should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> ...icle-1.191136|work=NY Daily News|date=1 October 2010}}</ref> Arif resigned from the ministry in 1991 and founded Speciality Chemicals Trading Company, an e

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| birth_place = [[Fort-de-France]], [[Martinique]] '''Mathias Coureur''' (born 22 March 1988 in [[Fort-de-France]]) is a [[Martinique|Martiniquais]] international footballer who plays as a

...on his right knee during the Chicago Pre-Draft Camp and withdrew his name from the early entries into the draft and returned to school. He finished his la [[Category:Living people]]