These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and eastern Europe ( Turks, Kalmyks ).

* Central Anatolian deciduous forests: These forests of deciduous oaks and evergreen pines cover the plateau of central Anatolia.

* Central Anatolian steppe: These dry grasslands cover the drier valleys and surround the saline lakes of central Anatolia, and include halophytic ( salt tolerant ) plant communities.

In the 10 years following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, the Seljuk Turks from Central Asia established themselves over large areas of Anatolia, with particular concentrations around the north western rim.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

In contrast, Bartók and Kodály discovered that the old Magyar folk melodies were based on pentatonic scales, similar to those in Asian folk traditions, such as those of Central Asia, Anatolia and Siberia.

These include Mesopotamia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, parts of Central Asia, Syria, Palestine and Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean from the prehistoric period until the beginning of Islam in the 7th century.

It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical " Hittites " signified any or all of: 1 ) the original Hattians ; 2 ) their Indo-European conquerors ( Nesili ), who retained the name " Hatti " for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the " Hittites " ( the subject of this article ); or 3 ) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite ( Luwian ) polities.

Ertuğrul, Osman's father, led the Turkic Kayi tribe west into Anatolia, from Central Asia fleeing the Mongol onslaught.

The general diffusion of Turkish populations over Anatolia, before Osman's time, was in main part a push from the Mongol conquest of Central Asia, Iran and then East Anatolia.

By the late-3rd millennium BC offshoots of the Proto-Indo-Europeans had reached Anatolia, the Aegean, Western Europe, Central Asia and southern Siberia.

Romani are widely dispersed, with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia, followed by the Kale of Iberia and Southern France.

The interior is divided into three regions: Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia.

Central Anatolia receives little annual rainfall.

Central Anatolia is famous specialties, such as keşkek ( kashkak ), mantı ( especially from Kayseri ) and gözleme.

Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia.

* Isaurian War: The Isaurians begin a revolt against emperor Anastasius I in southern Central Anatolia.

It represents a period of time in which imperialism, or the desire to conquer, grew to prominence, in the city states of the Middle East, but also throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European expansion to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia.

He developed the Anatolian Hypothesis, which argues that Proto-Indo-Europeans lived 2, 000 years before the Kurgans, in Anatolia, later diffusing throughout the Mediterranean and into Central and Northern Europe.

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, the birth of the Emperor of Mankind is placed in Central Anatolia at some point during this millennium.

The inner parts of Anatolia in Turkey, Central Anatolia and East Anatolia in particular and also some parts of Southeast Anatolia, as well as much of Armenia and Iran are largely dominated by cold steppe.

From its left bank, it receives the waters of such important tributaries as the Tormes, Huebra, Águeda, the Côa and the Paiva, all originating in the Sistema Central.

The northern half of the Central Valley receives greater precipitation than the semidesert southern half.

In the winter, Templeton receives fog from the Central Valley in the mornings.

It was incorporated in 1875 and is known for its German and Eastern European heritage and the local " Czhilispiel " festival ; the festival, named after Czech people who like to eat chili, receives visitors from a large area in Central Texas.

The town receives both BBC West Midlands and BBC East Midlands and is in the ITV Central television regions.

His last official position was chairman of the Presidium of the Kuomintang's Central Advisory Committee. Pope Paul VI receives Special Envoy Chang in 1965

Once the Libyan Central Bank receives most of the assets that had been internationally frozen during the civil war, it is probable that local banks would ease these restrictions.

In addition, compared to their South American counterparts, male white-headed capuchins are relatively more alert to rival males than to predators, reducing the predator detection benefits that the Central American squirrel monkey receives from associating with the white-headed capuchin compared to its South American counterparts.

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Verendrye Electric receives power from the Central Power Electric Cooperative-in fact, Verendrye took the lead in establishing Central Power in 1949 after having to deal with a 30 % rate hike from its previous power supplier in 1948.

* October 31-Canadian National Railway receives authorization to operate the former New York Central Railroad ( NYC ) lines in Ottawa, Ontario, to reach industries that were originally served by NYC.

Except for the pilot episode, the series does not reveal exactly which intelligence service Kloss is working for, as in the other episodes he receives his instructions from an unspecified Centrala or Central Control.

The location that receives the most rain is the middle ( northeast ) slopes of the Central Cordillera mountains, with an annual rainfall of over.

In 1974, the A and B wings are completed on the Grayslake Campus and CLC receives its first five-year accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Part of Southwest Allen County Schools, the school receives accreditation from the Indiana Department of Education and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

The Ministry receives funds from the Central Government of India, and routes these to the Khadi and Village Industries Commission for the implementation of programs and schemes related to Khadi and Village Industries.

* Adult / pediatric emergency services: the ER receives more than 68, 906 patient visits a year data for University Hospital Central Brooklyn location ;

It also receives accreditation from the Indiana Department of Education and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

The station receives roughly one service every hour each way in off-peak periods, which is usually a Central to Wyong service.

A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

Judson Mitchell claims that the Central Committee meeting which elected Andropov as General Secretary, was little more than a rubber stamp meeting.

The distribution of power within the Central Committee turned Chernenko into little more than a figurehead.

Since the reunions in the UK and Australia in 1957, two generations of Christadelphians have grown up with little awareness of the existence of the minority " fellowships ", or awareness that the main group is called " Central " by the minority groups.

During the reign of Daniel of Russia | Daniel, Moscow was little more than a small timber fort lost in the forests of Central Russia.

In North and Central America, and to some extent in West Africa, Australia and other parts of the world, every male acquires at puberty a tutelary spirit ( see Demonology ); in some Native American tribes the youth kills the animal of which he dreams in his initiation fast ; its claw, skin or feathers are put into a little bag and become his " medicine " and must be carefully retained, for a " medicine " once lost can never be replaced.

There is little doubt that the constituent families of Nilo-Saharan — of which only Eastern Sudanic and Central Sudanic show much internal diversity — are valid groups.

Prominent examples of greater autonomy are seen in the provinces of Guangdong and Zhejiang, where local leaders do little to adhere to the strict standards issued by the Central Government, especially economic policy.

Central governments had little control over the region, although some Hassaniya tribes would occasionally extended " beya " or allegiance to prestigious neighbouring rulers, to gain their political backing or, in some cases, as a religious ceremony.

There can be little doubt that mahogany timber has been used since prehistoric times by the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

China scholars Daniel Wright and Joseph Fewsmith assert that for several months after Falun Gong was outlawed, China Central Television's evening news contained little but anti-Falun Gong rhetoric charging that it cheats its followers, separates families, damages health, and hurts social stability.

Central and Southern Italy, being largely under-developed and of little interest to the wealthier north, would remain largely as it was, although there was some talk that the Emperor's cousin Prince Napoleon would replace the Habsburgs in Tuscany.

Though little population growth is registered in Central Java, East Java, and Yogyakarta, these regions have higher birth rates than one would assume due to mass emigration to the Western side of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua.

This decorative scheme once formulated became, with very little modification, an accepted norm for sculptures throughout the Central Javanese period ( circa 730-930 A. D .).

There are plenty of nice shops in the Central Sundbyberg area, which makes the little city a bit independent.

" The little village of Thorp, nine miles up the road, is one of the nicest little places in Central Washington.

In the Central Region, the water is a little bit colder, and there are steeper shores and bigger waves.

He worked as a fact checker for The New Yorker for little over a year ( late February 1945 until late April 1946 ), then spent five years traveling in Mexico, Central America, Spain, France, England, and North Africa, returning to the United States in 1951.

It was while he was teaching at the Central School of Art ( later Central St Martins College ) that Oliver Postgate came looking for, as Firmin puts it: "… someone to illustrate a television story – someone who was hard up and would do a lot of drawing for very little money ".

Historical Satakunta is situated on the areas of modern provinces of Satakunta and the most of Pirkanmaa, also little areas of Central Finland and Southern Ostrobothnia.