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... Turkish word altyn , ' gold , ' and accordingly Altai means ' gold mountains . ' Altái is an ancient Turkish territory ( Humboldt's Kosmos , vol . ii . p . 43 ) . New disclosures , given in a very interesting manner , have been made ...
... Turkish word altyn , ' gold , ' and accordingly Altai means ' gold mountains . ' Altái is an ancient Turkish territory ( Humboldt's Kosmos , vol . ii . p . 43 ) . New disclosures , given in a very interesting manner , have been made ...
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... Turkish word syrt simply means ' highland , ' although originally it signified back - bone . ' The Obshchy - Suirt ... Turkish , the great mountain ' ) is distin- guished from the Kütshük Balkan ( in Turkish , ' the little mountain ...
... Turkish word syrt simply means ' highland , ' although originally it signified back - bone . ' The Obshchy - Suirt ... Turkish , the great mountain ' ) is distin- guished from the Kütshük Balkan ( in Turkish , ' the little mountain ...
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... Turkish , Ust - Uert , denotes a highland . ' It rises 600 feet above the level of both those seas , and is begirt on all sides with tolerably steep and lofty declivities . On the east it over- hangs the Sea of Aral , and then stretches ...
... Turkish , Ust - Uert , denotes a highland . ' It rises 600 feet above the level of both those seas , and is begirt on all sides with tolerably steep and lofty declivities . On the east it over- hangs the Sea of Aral , and then stretches ...
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... Turkish , kará , ' black , ' and kúm , sand ' ) , and also on the clayey soil impregnated with salt , are found the characteristic plants termed Chenopodiacea , and especially the saksaúl 2 ( Ha- loxylon ammodendron ) , shooting up ...
... Turkish , kará , ' black , ' and kúm , sand ' ) , and also on the clayey soil impregnated with salt , are found the characteristic plants termed Chenopodiacea , and especially the saksaúl 2 ( Ha- loxylon ammodendron ) , shooting up ...
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... ( Turkish for red sand ' ) . It is a reddish - brown plain of sand , upwards of forty miles broad , the shifting sands of which are likewise towered up into hills by storms . Scanty bushes , sometimes reaching ten or twelve feet high ...
... ( Turkish for red sand ' ) . It is a reddish - brown plain of sand , upwards of forty miles broad , the shifting sands of which are likewise towered up into hills by storms . Scanty bushes , sometimes reaching ten or twelve feet high ...
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Afghánistán Afgháns Alá-Táu Allgemeine Zeitung amongst Amú Aral Sea arms army Asiatic Author Balkash Balkh Bokhára Bokharian British Caspian Sea Central Asia China Chinese Chúi civilisation Colonel commercial Cornhill Cossacks course Crown 8vo Demy 8vo desert district Dost Mahommed Dzungaria east Eastern Turkestán Edition Empire enemy England English European expedition frontier Geographical Society Government Herát important India inhabitants interesting Issik-Kúl Jaxartes Kábul Káshgar Khán khanate Khanate of Khiva Khiva Kirghiz Kokán Kokánese Kúlja lake land London miles military Mittheilungen mountain Mozaffer Naryn neighbours nomad opinion Orenburg Oxus Paternoster Row Perovsky Persian Petermann's Geogr Petersburg plains position possession Price province river ruler Russian Russian Geographical Society Samarcand Sea of Aral Shír-Alí Siberia Sír Sír-Dariá southern square versts steppe Tájiks Tartar Táshkend territory Thián-Shán tion Travels treaty tribes troops Turkestán Turkish Turkomans Ust-Urt Uzbeks valley Vámbéry versts Vide whilst Yárkand
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