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15 unusual facts about central Asia


Airag

Airag, also spelled ayrag, the Mongolian word for fermented horse milk; see kumis, the name under which it is more widely known throughout Central Asia.

Akino Memorial Research

The UNU Akino Memorial Research Fellowship is awarded for studies in the fields of human security and sustainable development in Central Asia and neighboring regions.

Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher

New archeological discoveries in Central Asia however (such as the Hellenistic city of Ai-Khanoum and the excavation of Sirkap in modern Pakistan), have been pointing to rich Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek civilizations in these areas, reviving the Hellenistic thesis.

Boris Marshak

Marshak was a leading authority on the history of Panjakent, the archaeology and art history of Central Asia, and medieval eastern silverware.

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

S. Frederick Starr serves as the chairman of the joint institute, which is affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute or CACI was founded by S. Frederick Starr, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Early history of Tajikistan

Iranian peoples, including ancestors of the modern Tajiks, have inhabited Central Asia since at least the earliest recorded history of the region, which began some 2,500 years ago.

Japan Policy Research Institute

Japan was never the exclusive focus, and JPRI has also published many articles about China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Inner Asia.

Jolfa

Upon the cessation of hostilities and continuation of settlement talks, as well as with the opening of the Iran Caucasus railway, it is expected that the border town of Jolfa will revive its past significance to be not only one of the most important cargo exchange borders among Iran, the Caucasus and Russia, but will also become one of the greatest cargo transit routes from Persian Gulf and Central Asia to Caucasus, Russia and vice versa.

Kamsabhoga

Kamsa-desa (Li-yul) was the ancient city/country in Central Asia lying beyond the Karakorum range.

Lakhnauti Turk

Lakhnauti Turk is a historic village, and founded by a group of Turkmen colonist who arrived from Central Asia some six centuries ago.

Religion in Afghanistan

Following this colossal defeat, the last Sassanid Emperor, Yazdegerd III, became a hunted fugitive and fled eastward deep into Central Asia.

Sergey Yaromko

In his early career Yaromko played in Belarusian SSR league for Burevestnik Minsk, before leaving to play a few seasons in Central Asia and Poland.

Southern Mongols

The United Kingdom urged Russia to abolish Mongolian independence because it was concerned that "if Mongolians gain independence then Central Asians will revolt".

Tengiz Gudava

In Europe he collaborated with the Soviet dissidents such as Vladimir Bukovsky and Yuri Yarim-Agaev in their émigré NGOs and regularly published on political, economic, and cultural problems in the Soviet Union and then CIS counties, especially Central Asia and Caucasia.


Aircraft Repair Plant No 405

ARZ-405 is a leading aircraft repair enterprise in Central Asia certified for performing overhaul, modernization, repair and technical maintenance of the Mi-8 helicopter and its modifications including fuselage and its systems.

Anna German

She was born in Urgench, a city with a population of 22,000 in northwestern Uzbekistan in Central Asia, then a part of the USSR.

Arctia rueckbeili

It is found in Tien Shan, Alai and Turkestan mountains in Central Asia within Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Chinese province of Xinjiang at altitudes 1300-3500 m a.s.l. The moth flies June to July.

Central Asia–Center gas pipeline system

At Alexandrov Gay CAC pipelines meet with Soyuz and Orenburg–Novopskov pipelines.

From Kungrad, most of the gas is carried via Kazakhstan to the Alexandrov Gay gas metering station in Russia.

China National Highway 312

The road was the subject of Rob Gifford's 2007 book China Road, in which he describes traveling the entire length of Route 312 from the East China Sea to Central Asia.

Chinese influences on Islamic pottery

Contacts between China and Central Asia were formally opened from the 2nd to 1st century BCE through the Silk Road.

Claude de Visdelou

He collected from Chinese historians unique documents on the peoples of Central Asia and Eastern Asia: Huns, Tatars, Mongols, and Turks.

David R. Harris

Continuing investigations during the 1990s by Harris and the international project team at Jeitun and surrounds obtained conclusive evidence of agricultural-pastoral settlement by at least 6000 BCE, the earliest indications of agricultural practices in Central Asia known at that point.

Eduniversal

The International Scientific Committee is composed of 12 members; 9 members coming from nine different geographic zones (Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Middle East, Far East Asia, Latin America, North America, Oceania and Western Europe), and 2 members from the Eduniversal Company (The CEO and the International Coordinator).

Fenqing

In addition to the official claims made by the People's Republic of China, such as Taiwan, Arunachal Pradesh, the Senkaku Islands, and the South China Sea Islands, some fenqing also make irredentist claims to Outer Mongolia, Tuva, Outer Manchuria, the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar, parts of Central Asia east of Lake Balkhash, Bhutan, Ladakh, and Sikkim.

France–Turkmenistan relations

10–13 April 2008 was visit of Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Bernard Kouchner to Central Asia, where during his visit to Turkmenistan opened a new building of the French Embassy in Ashgabat, with the presence of the Ambassador of France to Turkmenistan Christian Lechervy.

Göktürk civil war

The Göktürk civil war (or Turkic interregnum) was an important crisis in Central Asia during the 580s, which resulted in the split of the Göktürk Khaganate and the creation of separate western and eastern khaganates.

Hakanlar Çarpışıyor

The film is about the life of a Turkic warrior named Olcayto, portrayed by Cüneyt Arkın, who is the son of a Kyrgyz chief in Central Asia.

Harpalus salinus klementzae

Harpalus salinus klementzae is a subspecies of ground beetle native to Central Asia, where it could be found in such countries as Mongolia, Chinese province of Xinjiang, and Russian autonomous regions such as Buryat Republic, Chita, Irkutsk, and Maritime Province.

History of North Ossetia–Alania

As of 1944, the part of the Prigorodny District on the right bank of the Terek River had been part of Chechen-Ingush ASSR, but it was granted to North Ossetia in following Joseph Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia.

Hypotia oxodontalis

It was described by Hampson in 1900, and is known from Central Asia (it was described from the Kopet Dag).

Ingrian Finns

To facilitate it, in 1929-1931, 18,000 people (4320 families) from North Ingria were deported to East Karelia, the Kola Peninsula as well as Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

Intervision Song Contest

In 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed restart of competition but this time between Russia, China and Central Asian countries which are mostly members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Islamistan

Daniel Pipes quotes Hafeez Malik of Villanova University who writes that: "Pakistanis have started to speculate that Pakistan's natural habitat includes Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Central Asia Republics."

Lawrence J. DeNardis

He has been an independent election observer in central Asian countries, and in December 2009 was an advisor to the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) as it participated in local elections in Kosovo.

Lev Berg

Berg studied and determined the depth of the lakes of Central Asia, including Balkhash and Issyk Kul.

Linton, West Yorkshire

Owen Lattimore (1900-1989), eminent American scholar of Mongolia and China, and Central Asia generally, lived in the village for a time during the 1960s while he was the first Professor of Chinese at the University of Leeds.

Marina Aidaeva

(As a result of the forced deportations of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia on February 23, 1944, there has been a large Chechen population living in Kazakhstan.) Her father, Lom-Ali Aidaev, was a well-known singer and composer in Chechnya.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Mineral processing

By the 11th century, stamp mills were in widespread use throughout the medieval Islamic world, from Islamic Spain and North Africa in the west to Central Asia in the east.

Murghab River

The Murghāb River (Persian/Pashto: مرغاب), also called Margos, Margu and Margiana River (Old Greek: Μαργιανή), and also transliterated as Murgab (from Russian Мургаб) and Murgap (from Turkmen), is an 850 km long river in Central Asia.

Plateumaris bracata

Plateumaris bracata is a species of leaf beetle from the Donaciinae family which can be found in the western part of the Palearctic region, from Spain to Central Asia.

Pyotr Kozlov

Kozlov married Elizabeth V. Kozlova, a woman 29 years his junior, who accompanied him on his final journey of exploration as the expedition ornithologist, and who was to publish many monographs and scientific papers on the avifauna of Central Asia.

Riga Zoo

In 1989-1993 expeditions were made to various places in the former Soviet Union (Ukraine, Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Southern Siberia, Primorsk, Sakhalin and Kunashir Island).

Safed-Bulan

According to a story, Bulan came to the lands of Central Asia with the army of Arabic Warriors led by her beloved and, perhaps, her Master -Shah-Jarir (grandson of Prophet Mohammad).

Stroytransgaz

It is involved in the construction of the Arab Gas Pipeline, the Taweelah–Fujairah gas pipeline, and the Central Asia–China gas pipeline.

The Caryatids

The novel's locations include the Croatian island of Mljet, a Los Angeles threatened by a supervolcano, and the wastes of Central Asia.

Tim Rayborn

Tim Rayborn is a American-born musician and singer who has accomplished himself in the music of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, Turkey, Iran, and the Balkans.

Tolai hare

The Tolai Hare (Lepus tolai) is a species of hare found in Central Asia, Mongolia, and Northern and Central China.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs

The Subcommittee on European Affairs is responsible for United States relations with the countries on the continent of Europe, except the states of Central Asia that are within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs.

Western Xia tombs

The Western Xia capital city and the burial complex eluded early 20th century explorers of Central Asia, including Nikolay Kozlov, Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin.