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Tian Shan

(Encyclopedia)Tian Shan or Tien Shan both: tēĕn shän [key] [Chin.,=celestial mountains], mountain system of central Asia, extending c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) from the Pamir Mts., Tajikistan, NE through the Xinjiang ...

Maori

(Encyclopedia)Maori mäˈōrē [key], people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia. Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their an...

Frunze

(Encyclopedia)Frunze: see Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Pishpek

(Encyclopedia)Pishpek: see Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. ...

Alai

(Encyclopedia)Alai: see Alay, mountains, Kyrgyzstan. ...

Ysyk Köl

(Encyclopedia)Ysyk Köl: see Issyk-Kol, lake, Kyrgyzstan. ...

Pobeda Peak

(Encyclopedia)Pobeda Peak, Kyrgyzstan-China: see Tian Shan. ...

Kurz, Sebastian

(Encyclopedia)Kurz, Sebastian, 1986–, Austrian politician, federal chancellor of Austria (2017–), b. Vienna. A member of the conservative People's party, he was active in the party's youth wing and became its l...

Trans-Alai

(Encyclopedia)Trans-Alai trăns-älīˈ, trănz– [key], mountain range, central Asia, a part of the Pamir-Alai mountain system. The Trans-Alai extends 155 mi (249 km) W from China to form the border between Kyrgy...
 

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