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Ancient Chinese states

After an attack by Quanrong nomads allied with several vassal states including Shen and Zheng, the Zhou ruler King You was killed in his palace at Haojing.

Apache–Mexico Wars

At the time the Apache were buffalo hunting nomads who had trading relationships with the Pueblos of the Rio Grande valley.

Arianna Dagnino

Drawing on French sociologist Michel Maffesoli's conceptualization of postmodern forms of wandering, blurring of borders and fluidity of social belongings, in her essay I Nuovi Nomadi (New Nomads, 1996) she contributed to the definition of the concept of neonomadismo (neonomadism or global nomadism).

Bao Si

Queen Shen’s father was upset by the deposition of his daughter and grandson Yijiu and mounted an attack on King You’s palace in conjunction with Quanrong nomads.

Beena

Beena marriage, a pre-Islamic form of marriage among Arabic nomads

Caravan raids

The survival of nomads (or Bedouins) was also partially dependent on raiding caravans or oases; thus they saw this as no crime.

Cosmic Nomads

Cosmic Nomads has released three albums: Make Love Not War (2003), Vultress (2007), and Millennium (2008).

Cyril Spiers

He stayed at the club throughout the war and set up a number of nursery teams, including Cardiff Nomads who would go on to bring players such as Alan Harrington and Colin Baker to the club, to bring most of the local football talent to the club.

Desert exploration

Michael Asher & Mariantonietta Peru - made the first known crossing of the Sahara from west to east, by camel and on foot, from Nouakchott, Mauretania, to Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1986-87, a distance of 4500 miles Ref: The Modern Explorers. Thames & Hudson. London 2013 Michael Asher lived for 3 years with the Kababish nomads in the Sudan.

Ed Wool

Wool's band Ed Wool and The Nomads was active in the Central New York and North Country, New York areas in the mid and late 1960s.

Flags of the Ottoman Empire

He inherited this title from his father Ertugrul, who inherited it from his father Suleyman Shah, who inherited it from his father Kayaalp, this going back to when the Kayihan were a roving tribe of Oghuz nomads who inhabited the area surrounding Mount Khan Tengri.

Gököz, Keles

The village has a unique dialect, customs, and traditions, as in the past centuries, it was a popular place for nomads breeding cattle that had lived in different regions between Turkmenistan and Mongolia to migrate to.

Guo Jing

Guo and his mother are taken in by some nomads later and become part of Genghis Khan's tribe after Guo meets Jebe, an enemy of the Khan, who is later pardoned and accepted by the Khan as a warrior.

Halifax Dukes

A team called Halifax Nomads operated racing a few fixtures in 1948, and speedway in Halifax was originally staged at Thrum Hall between 1928 and 1930.

Han Zhao

In addition to the Southern Xiongnu nomads, the state numbered 1,000,000 of other nomadic tribes, mainly Jie, Xianbei, Di, and Qiang, for a total of approximately 1,400,000 nomadic population, or 200 thousand yurts.

Haojing

In King You of Zhou's reign (r. 781-771 BCE), the Marquess of Shen with support from Quanrong nomads from the west overran Hàojīng heralding the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Joe Corona

He started his career with the Nomads from San Diego, California, following the example of Marcelo Balboa, Frankie Hejduk and Steve Cherundolo, all from the United States men's national soccer team.

Karaim

Karaim language, (Crimean dialect: къарай тили, Trakai dialect: karaj tili, Turkish dialect: karay dili, traditional Karaim name lashon kedar (Hebrew: לשון קדר - «language of the nomads») is a Turkic language with Hebrew influences, in a similar manner to Yiddish or Ladino

Kharkhul

The string of victories emboldened Khara Khula to take control of the salt mines near the Russian outpost at Tara in 1610 and demand a fee in exchange for the salt from the neighboring Cossacks and Siberian nomads.

King You of Zhou

After trying many methods and failing, King You tried to amuse his favourite queen by lighting warning beacons and fooling his nobles into thinking that the Quanrong nomads were about to attack.

Mark T. Sullivan

After graduating, he served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, teaching English to children of Tuareg nomads in the Saraha Desert.

Marquis Wen of Jin

In 771 BC, the tenth year of his reign, King You of Zhou was killed by Quanrong nomads and two Zhou family members were subsequently and separately declared king: King Ping of Zhou and King Xie of Zhou.

Nissan Pao

According to the article on Japanese Wikipedia, the name is a Chinese word describing a type of house used by nomads in Mongolia for assembly or meetings.

Nomads R.F.C.

Nomads R.F.C. are a Hong Kong rugby union club, who play in G4S League Divisions 2,5 and 7 and are based in the Tai Hang Tung area in New Kowloon.

Oultrejordain

There were very few Christians in Oultrejordain, most of the inhabitants being Shia Bedouin nomads.

Overseas Minangkabau

Hamka, in his novel Merantau to Deli, telling stories about life experiences Minang nomads who went to Deli and married Javanese woman.

Porter College

Empire Cave is notable for being the endemic stomping grounds of the Empire Cave Pseudoscorpion, the population of these arachnids being so small and isolated as to be primarily threatened by intrepid explorers, foolhardy party-goers, and psychedelic nomads looking for a "trip."

Protoceratops

Folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and other beaked dinosaurs, found by ancient Scythian nomads who mined gold in the Tian Shan and Altai Mountains of Central Asia, may have been at the root of the image of the mythical creature known as the griffin.

Saudi Arabian art

Saudi Arabian art should be understood in the light of the country being the birthplace of Islam and to include both the arts of Bedouin nomads and those of the sedentary peoples of regions such as the Hejaz, Tihamah, Asir and the Najd.

Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam

Due to the disunion of the Arab tribes, trade caravans were constantly running the risk of being raided by nomads.

To him, the Islamic expansion was a huge emigration wave of about one million nomads from the Hijaz and Najd regions of Arabia to the outside world.

Voronezh Oblast

The descendants of Sarmatian Alans in the early Middle Ages moved to a sedentary lifestyle and mastered the skills of urban culture (Mayatsky mound), joining the complex symbiosis in nomads (Bulgars, Khazars).


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