The Barrayarans in reprisal conquer and annex Komarr during the time of Aral Vorkosigan, Count Piotr's second son.

Captain Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony meets the notorious Captain Lord Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar.

Alternatively, it may be an indirect tribute to the actor Oliver Reed, whom Bujold is known to admire ( she has cited him as a model for Miles ' father Aral Vorkosigan ); Reed played the role of Athos in the 1973 film version of The Three Musketeers.

* Aral Vorkosigan – Former Lord Regent of Barrayar

* Miles Vorkosigan – Aral Vorkosigan's son and the main character of most of the series

* Piotr Vorkosigan – Father of Aral, grandfather to Miles.

Until Emperor Gregor had children, he was the third in line to the throne after Count Aral Vorkosigan and Miles.

His father, Aral Vorkosigan, and grandfather Piotr Vorkosigan, both played an important role in repelling the Cetagandan invaders.

However, an attempt is made to poison Aral and Cordelia.

The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.

The sea began to shrink rapidly when sharply increased irrigation and other demands on the only significant tributaries, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya ( the latter reaching the Aral from neighboring Uzbekistan ), all but eliminated inflow.

Increasing salinity and reduced habitat have killed the Aral Sea's fish, hence destroying its once-active fishing industry, and the receding shoreline has left the former port of Aral ' sk more than seventy kilometers from the water's edge.

: Radioactive or toxic chemical sites associated with its former defense industries and test ranges are found throughout the country and pose health risks for humans and animals ; industrial pollution is severe in some cities ; because the two main rivers which flowed into the Aral Sea have been diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms ; pollution in the Caspian Sea ; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and wasteful irrigation practices

Among the conditions detrimental to the Aral Sea's environment are erosion from deforestation and overgrazing, contamination from poorly managed irrigation systems, and uncontrolled waste from mining and municipal effluents.

Of that quantity, nearly 75 percent came from the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, the chief tributaries of the Aral Sea on the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border to the northwest of Tajikistan.

Environment-current issues: inadequate sanitation facilities ; increasing levels of soil salinity ; industrial pollution ; excessive pesticides ; part of the basin of the shrinking Aral Sea suffers from severe overutilization of available water for irrigation and associated pollution

Turkmenistan both contributes to and suffers from the consequences of the desiccation of the Aral Sea.

In Dashhowuz Province, which has suffered the greatest ecological damage from the Aral Sea's desiccation, bacteria levels in drinking water exceeded ten times the sanitary level ; 70 % of the population has experienced illnesses, many with hepatitis, and infant mortality is high.

Turkmenistan has announced plans to clean up some of the Aral Sea fallout with financial support from the World Bank.

Regional experts assert that salt and dust storms from the Aral Sea have raised the level of particulate matter in the Earth's atmosphere by more than 5 %, seriously affecting global climate change.

shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification ; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders ; increasing soil salination ; soil contamination from agricultural chemicals, including DDT

By the beginning of the 1st century, the Alans had occupied lands in the northeast Azov Sea area, along the Don and by the 2nd century had amalgamated or joined with the Yancai of the early Chinese records to extend their control all the way along the trade routes from the Black Sea to the north of the Caspian and Aral seas.

The history of Iran has been intertwined with the history of a larger historical region, comprising the area from the Danube River in the west to the Indus River and Jaxartes in the east and from the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and Egypt in the south.

* Post-Soviet Legacy: Aral Sea Pollution from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

) The journey took Ibn Fadlan from Baghdad to Bukhara and Khwarizm ( south of the Aral Sea ).

The sands of the Aral Karakum are made up of a salt-marsh consisting of finely-dispersed evaporites and remnants of alkaline mineral deposits, washed into the basin from irrigated fields.

* Aral Aral built at the mouth of Otter Creek on Lake Michigan in 1880.

It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level.

Batu sent Mongke under the protection of his brothers, Berke and Tukhtemur, and his son Sartaq to assemble a formal kurultai at Kodoe Aral in the heartland.

A few birds from the central Siberian range also winter in Iran at the south of the Caspian Sea ; in former times these flocks also migrated to the Aral Sea before the late 20th century ecological catastrophe turned most of the habitat there into inhospitable wasteland.

Batu sent Mongke under the protection of his brothers, Berke and Tukhtemur, and his son Sartaq to assemble a more formal kurultai at Kodoe Aral in the heartland.

He is retired and sells stamps, rare coins, and gold from his Pahrump, Nevada home, and had never owned an Apple product until 2011, when he was given an iPad 2 by Aral Balkan at the Update Conference in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Batu sent Mongke under the protection of his brothers, Berke and Tuqa-temur, and his son Sartaq to assemble a formal kurultai at Kodoe Aral in Mongolia.

The temperature of the ocean at depth lags the Earth's atmosphere temperature by 15 days per, which means for locations like the Aral sea, temperatures near its bottom reaches a maximum in December and a minimum in May and June.

* Siegmar-W. Breckle: Combating desertification and rehabilitation of the salt deserts in the region at the Aral Sea

The dike is conserving the dwindling waters of the Syr Darya river and maintain ( and attempt to revive ) the damaged ecology of the North Aral Sea, at the expense of sealing the fate of the larger South Aral.

* in Middle Asia: in southwestern Turkmenia along the Atrek River and its tributaries, Sumbar and Chandyr rivers ; in the western and southwestern parts of Kopet-Dag ; in the environs of Ashkabad in the northern foothills ; in Afghanistan along the upper reaches of Hari-Rud at Herat, and along the jungles in the lower reaches of the river ; around Tedzhen and Murgap and along the Kushka and Kashan rivers ; in the Amu-Darya basin as far the Aral Sea ; along the Syr-Darya to the Fergana Valley as far as Tashkent and the western spur of Talas Alatau ; along the entire coast of the Aral Sea ; along the Chu and Ili Rivers ; all along the southern shore of Lake Balkhash, and northwards into the southern Altai Mountains.

In his 10th century work, Ibn Haukal drew a map showing that Kipchak-Kimak tribes together with Oguzes pastured in the steppes north of the Aral Sea, and al-Masudi at approximately the same time wrote that all of them were coaching along Emba and Yaik.

Home to only a few thousand residents at most, Mo ‘ ynoq's population has been declining precipitously since the 1980s due to the recession of the Aral Sea.

River re-routing is another factor, one example being the towns along the Aral Sea.

It was named Aral after Aral, Ireland because Otter Creek was already the name of another place in Michigan.