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Khazaria: A Forgotten Empire History

2016-03-07 20:42:15
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With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the troubles prevalent in the Balkans there has been much renewed interest in the early history of Eastern Europe. Troubles have fuelled nationalist tendencies in the region and there has been much

2016-03-10 15:07:58
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by Frank Jacobs What colour is the sea? Why, blue of course (1). Unless you're Homer. In which case your numerous references to the Aegean as the "wine-dark sea" will puzzle scholars for centuries to come (2).

2016-03-28 01:11:47
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ASTANA – Located in the Sahara-Gobi Desert zone of the Aral Sea basin, the Barsakelmes Nature Reserve was added to UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) during a meeting of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and the

2016-04-17 23:15:00
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The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata), also known as the Hyrcanian tiger, the Mazandaran tiger, the Persian tiger and the Turan tiger, is an extinct tiger subspecies that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly

2016-05-10 20:15:59
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No Way Out The fate of the Caspian seal may have been decided ﬁve million years ago. The smallest earless seal on Earth, Pusa caspica, is the only mammal in the Caspian Sea. It is atop the aquatic food chain in this

2016-06-01 01:45:23
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Traces of extinction Tigers used to occur across Asia as far west as Turkey. Isolated populations of tigers developed into eight different subspecies. Three generations ago, the tiger ranged from the Caucasus and Turkey through the southern Caspian region

2016-07-14 14:14:14
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Rare Sight in Siberia: Two Tornadoes Form A tornado roared along the Ob River surface near Yugorsky Highway in

2016-08-10 15:09:58
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Oil and Gas Drilling Threatens Little-Known but Unique Seal The 20th century was not kind to the Caspian seal. About 100 years ago, an estimated 1 million of these four-foot-long marine mammals swam the waters of the Caspian Sea, the world’s

2017-01-22 08:56:36
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IIKSS - Turkmenistan’s activity within its chairmanship at the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) will focus on the fight against the consequences of the Aral Sea crisis and prevention of ecosystems’ degradation in the Aral

2017-02-27 13:16:58
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IIKSS- Under a decree of the Turkmen president, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Rejep Bazarov has been appointed as member of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS). Turkmenistan will chair the International Fund for Saving

2018-08-26 10:21:34
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Five Central Asian Leaders Discuss Aral Sea In Turkmenistan Leaders of five former Soviet republics in Central Asia met in Turkmenistan on August 24 to discuss the way to save the Aral Sea, which is facing severe environmental issues.