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• Medeu Dam
  ...le=Debris-flow hazards and related phenomena|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=w4_QA22J4FoC .../books.google.com/books?id=uJz548G5XHEC}} (Full text available on [[Google Books]]).
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• National Library of Kazakhstan
  ...st3=Clammer |first3=Paul |title=Central Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9m-hrsrtfYC&pg=PA177 |accessdate=10 October 2012 |date=1 November 2010 ...considered the storage of 'all printed output in Kazakh and all literature about Kazakhstan' to be the most important task among the library activities. In
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• Issyk kurgan
  ...modern [[Kazakhstan]]. A likeness crowns the Independence Monument on the central square of [[Almaty]]. Its depiction may also be found on the [[Presidential *Hall, Mark E. Towards an absolute chronology for the Iron Age of Inner Asia. Antiquity 71 (1997): 863-874.
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• Nazarbayev Center
  ...threat, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, inte A snow-white yurt, symbol of Kazakh nation, occupies central place in this hall.
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• Mukhtar Auezov
  ...re.com/rnb/bashiri/Authors/Authors.html Iraj Bashiri, Biographies: Central Asia and Iran]</ref> ...various positions in the local government in Semipalatinsk with the Kazakh Central Executive Committee and in [[Orenburg]].
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• Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov
  ...shetau]], a [[descendant of Genghis Khan]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Central Asia: a chessboard and player in the new great game |last=Mullerson |first=R. A. Kanapyanov's books were translated in more than 20 languages, including English, Finnish, Geor
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• Nowruz
  ...mma">Emma Sinclair-Webb, [[Human Rights Watch]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwDxTvTlRuYC&pg=PA46 "Turkey, Closing ranks against accountability"], Hu ...blisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1598842067|page=620|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lD_2J7W_2hQC&dq=nowruz+persian+new+year+origin&hl=nl&source=gbs_navlinks
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• Kui (instrumental musical composition)
  ...nds of it. So before performing the Kui the performer used to give a story about the composition to play, so the auditory could get proper feelings from tha ...which is the name of a woman; Dina’s “Asem qonyr”). Other Kuis are about mother land-vast fields of Steppe: Qurmangazy’s Kui «Sary Arqa» that me
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• Kazakhstan
  ...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 ...language=Russian |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref> [[Islam]] is the religion of about 70% of the population, with [[Christianity]] practised by 26%;<ref name="20
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• Manti (dumpling)
  ...%20turkish&f=false 154].</ref><ref name="Gordon">[https://books.google.com/books?id=sSn_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&hl=en&q=mantou%20manti%20chinese%20turkish&f=false ...u+manti+chinese&dq=mantou+manti+chinese&hl=en|year=1983|publisher=Prospect Books|page=30}}</ref><ref>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pQ
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• Samosa
  | region = [[Indian Subcontinent]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[Central Asia]], [[Middle East]], [[Horn of Africa]], [[North Africa]], :''This article is about the food. For the place in ancient Syria sometimes called Samosa, see [[Sam
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• Boortsog
  ...ried dough food]] found in the cuisines of [[Central Asian cuisine|Central Asia]], [[Idel-Ural]], [[Mongolian cuisine|Mongolia]] and the [[Middle East]].<r ...golians and other Turkic peoples sometimes dip boortsog in tea. In Central Asia, baursaki are often eaten alongside [[chorba]].<ref>Schreiber (2008), 104.<
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• KIMEP University
  ...taught in English and strive to create and transfer knowledge relevant to Central Asian society. ...uated from KIMEP in 1994.<ref name="History of KIMEP">[http://www.kimep.kz/about/history History of KIMEP] KIMEP Official Website</ref>
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• Buzkashi
  ...nce-day-ulak-tyrtysh/</ref> in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan) is the [[Central Asia]]n sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a [[goat]] or [[ca ...hat bygone era.<ref name="Azoy">G. Whitney Azoy, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=d8Fo13XCP6wC&q=Buzkashi+Scythian#v=snippet&q=Buzkashi%20Scythian&f
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• Anjelika Akbar
  ...n [[Russia]], [[France]], [[Germany]], the [[Baltic Countries]], [[Central Asia]], [[India]], [[Qatar]], [[Turkey]] and [[Northern Cyprus]].<ref>[http://ww ...n “Picturesque Istanbul”, containing famous paintings of Istanbul from about 200 years ago, was opened at the Istanbul Naval Museum. Akbar composed and
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• Nursultan Nazarbayev
  |office3 = [[Communist Party of Kazakhstan|First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR]] ...rnational Politics – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita – Google Books |publisher=Books.google.com |date=14 January 2013 |accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref> ({{lang
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• Mustafa Shokay
  Before [[October Revolution]] in 1917 Shokay’s Family and about 30 of his relatives lived in one village, which was located in 5 kilometers ...he electoral rights of the indigenous peoples of [[Siberia]] and [[Central Asia]]. They lost their way with little representation in the [[State Duma]] of
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• Kazakh clothing
  ...%20&f=false] Waters, Bella "Kazakhstan in Pictures," Twenty First Century Books; 2nd edition, 2007, page 37. ISBN 978-0822565888</ref> ...ref>{{cite web|title=National Kazakh Wear|url=http://visitkazakhstan.kz/en/about/77/|website=Visit Kazakhstan|accessdate=18 February 2017}}</ref> Poor women
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• Almaty
  {{about|the city|the province|Almaty Province}} In 1997 the capital was moved to [[Astana]] in the north-central part of the country. Since then Almaty has been referred to as the 'souther
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• Terrorism and counter-terrorism in Kazakhstan
  ...94-bcfb2772a5e9.html Five Years After 9/11: Crackdowns loom behind Central Asia's War On Terror] RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty</ref><ref name=RUSSIALIKE>[ht ...slamic Movement of Uzbekistan]], [[Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami]], [[Jamaat of Central Asian Mujahedins]], [[Islamic Party of Eastern Turkestan]], [[Kurdistan Wor
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• Almaty Management University
  ...r working out of 1998–2001 economic policy in the countries of [[Central Asia]].<ref>{{cite journal| author = Лена Ларичева | title = АШМ ...gement had an agreement with the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[McGill University]] about start of joint program of preparation of financiers under the name "Profess
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• L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
  ...te web|title=History of the University|author=ENU|url=http://www.enu.kz/en/about-enu/index.php|accessdate=3 November 2015}}</ref> As the result of merger wi ...ame="ob">{{cite web|title=About University|author=ENU|url=http://enu.kz/en/about/|accessdate=10 January 2012}}</ref> It is highly symbolic that the universi
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• German Kim
  ...the Chief-editor of the journal ''Newsletter of Korean Studies in Central Asia'' and is a member of the editorial board of the journals ''Acta Koreana'' ( # Essays about our language. AKK Serial. Almaty: KazNU Press, 2003, 287 P.
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• Sergey Malov
  ...art]]s, and [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]]). He collected various rich materials about [[folklore]] and [[ethnography]], made musical records, and acquired precio ...r at the Tashkent Conference.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kd22AAAAIAAJ&q=uighur.+This+designation+of+the+Turkic+language+spoken+in
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• Shoqan Walikhanov
  ...atai language|Chagatai]], which served as the [[lingua franca]] of Central Asia at that time. ...so English language literature, Walikhanov traveled extensively in Central Asia in the late 1850s.<ref name="Futrell, Michael 1979 p. 20">Futrell, Michael.
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• Dungan people
  ...800s|Muslims in China that are sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages|Hui people}} ...b|url=http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/ |title=About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census o
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• Karakalpaks
  ...meaning hat. The Karakalpaks number nearly 620,000 worldwide, out of which about 500,000 live in the Uzbek [[Karakalpakstan|Republic of Karakalpakstan]]. The Karakalpak population is mainly confined to the central part of [[Karakalpakstan]] that is irrigated by the [[Amu Darya]]. The larg
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• Volga Tatars
  ...eb|url=http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/|title=About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census o ...d=4iwHp8amsdEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s] (Chapter ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=4iwHp8amsdEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage
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• Uzbeks
  {{About|Uzbeks as an ethnic group|information about citizens of [[Uzbekistan]]|Demographics of Uzbekistan|a list of notable peo | image = File:Uzbek man from central Uzbekistan.jpg
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• Zhuz
  ...رتا ٴجۇز}}) or '''Orta zhuz''' consists of six tribes, covering central and eastern Kazakhstan ...ru:Жуз]] ([[:ru:User:AlefZet]]) - who is a Kazakh speaker knowledgeable about ethnography of his country) believes it is just a homonym.
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• Uyghurlar
  ...hich suggests a kinship to a "West Turkestan" in the independent [[Central Asia]]n states.<ref name="Bellér-Hann"/> In contrast to the official Chinese [[ The book makes a number of non-orthodox theories about history, including that the [[Tarim mummies]] indicate that the Uyghurs wer
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• History of Xinjiang
  ...blisher=Serindia Publications |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Silk_Road.html?id=9AUxnUNRekgC |deadurl=no |accessdate=17 April 2014|is ...Central Asia for over a century and a half.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FW8SBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false Liu & Faure 1996], p. 77.</ref>
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• Musa Sayrami
  ...en in the [[Chagatai language]]&mdash;the old literary language of Central Asia, which can be thought of as an ancestral form of today's [[Uyghur language| |isbn=7-228-00220-2|title=Tarikhi ăminiyă|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qO_CAAAACAAJ}}</ref>
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• Hotan
  ...h one of the main routes from ancient [[India]] and [[Tibet]] to [[Central Asia]] and distant China. It provided a convenient meeting place where not only ...}} wide and {{convert|23|km|abbr=on}} long. The excavated sites range from about 300 BCE to 100 CE. The excavated graves have produced a number of fabrics o
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• Uyghurs
  ...)</small><ref>{{cite web|title=About Uyghurs|url=http://uyghuramerican.org/about-uyghurs|website=uyghuramerican.org|publisher=[[Uyghur American Association] ...y, the Uyghur hitch in Sino-Turkish relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IR4tAQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=East-West Center|isbn=978-1-932728-80-4
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• Afaqi Khoja revolts
  ...hum|title=The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pP6EBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|date=13 October 2014|publisher=Harvard University ...Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2MtBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false|date=1 August 2014|publisher=Rou
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• Kim Jong-il
  ...airman of the [[Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea|Central Military Commission]] of the [[Workers' Party of Korea]] ...upreme leader of the DPRK".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8279830.stm|publisher=BBC News|title=N Korea constitution bolsters
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• Aral District
  ...asing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia''. Pantheon Books, New York. ISBN 0-375-42130-0.
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• Sharyn Canyon
  ...book|author=Pang Guek Cheng|title=Kazakhstan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z75x8MmkTIkC&pg=PA10|year=2001|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecosystema.ru/08nature/world/is/32e.htm|title=Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan|accessdate=23 November 2015|publisher= ecosystem
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• Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
  ...New York, and in 2005 the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in Central Asia (CANWFZ) in Semipalatinsk. He was elected Chairman of the Council of Foreig Tokayev holds a Doctorate in Political Science. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles on international affairs. He is a Fellow of the World
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• Aral, Kazakhstan
  {{about|the city in [[Kazakhstan]]|other uses|Aral (disambiguation)}} Aralsk is not to be confused with '''Fort Aralsk''' which was about 120km south. In 1847 Russia built Raimsk, later called Fort Aralsk, near t
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• Yegindybulak
  ...s located near modern day Yegindybulak on the caravan route from [[Central Asia]] to [[Siberia]].<ref name="CAR"/> ...AJ|accessdate=8 August 2010|date=1 January 1962|publisher=Published by the Central Asian Research Centre in association with the Soviet Affairs Study Group, S
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• Karkaraly
  Its history began as a small steppe village. Caravans from Central Asia would travel through Karkaraly on their way to Siberia. The name Karkaraly ...d numerous commercial and political contacts with western Siberia, Central Asia, Xinjiang and Iran.[http://www.discovery-kazakhstan.com/archive/2008/10_17.
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• Semey
  ...the city's importance, making it a major point of transit between Central Asia and Siberia. On 19 May 1854 Semipalatinsk became the capital of the [[Semip ...the details of particular descriptive passages in Dostoyevsky's subsequent books, including his highly acclaimed ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'', are recogni
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• Ken Alibek
  ...rdable anti-cancer therapies available in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Central Asia]], AFG was using Alibek’s biotechnology experience to plan, build, and ma ...article coauthored by Alibek appeared in the scientific journal, ''Biomed Central - Immunology,'' [Weinstein, et al. BMC Immunology 2010'''11''':23 '''DOI:''
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• Ural Mountains in Nazi planning
  {{Further|Boundaries between continents#Europe and Asia}} ...hat "the Europe of today was nothing but a geographical term; in reality [[Asia]] extended up to our frontiers".<ref name="bormann">[http://germanhistorydo
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• Tian Shan
  {{About|the mountain|district of Ürümqi|Tianshan District}} ...ation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia|Asia]]
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• Altaic languages
  |region = [[North Asia|North]], [[Central Asia|Central]], and [[West Asia]], and [[Eastern Europe]] ...' ({{IPAc-en|æ|l|ˈ|t|eɪ|.|ᵻ|k}}) is a proposed [[language family]] of central Eurasia and Siberia, now widely seen as discredited.<ref>"While 'Altaic' is
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• Dzungaria
  ...m and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84bPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT319&dq=qilghan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiupcrw3v3LAhWLtho ...arr|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXj4a3gss8wC&pg=PA30&dq#v=onepage&q=zungharia%20and%20altishahr&f=false|
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• Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
  ...latively humid climate, which earned its reputation as 'wetland in Central Asia'. Major tourist attractions include Narati Grassland, Guozigou and [[Kanas ...//books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC08187146 Full text] available at [[Google Books]]; there is also a 2001 facsimile reprint of the 1885 edition, ISBN 1-4021-
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