The Ababda or Ababde – the Gebadei of Pliny, and possibly the Troglodytes of other classical writers – are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Aswan in Egypt.

Further east, the military history of China, specifically northern China, held a long tradition of intense military exchange between Han Chinese infantry forces of the settled dynastic empires and the mounted nomads or " barbarians " of the north.

Jordan's boundaries with Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia do not have the special significance that the border with Israel does ; these borders have not always hampered tribal nomads in their movements, yet for a few groups borders did separate them from traditional grazing areas and delimited by a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and the government of what eventually became Saudi Arabia ) was first formally defined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925.

Before the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century, what is now central and western Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao region, alternated in control between Chinese agriculturalists in the south and Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen, Tujue, and other Mongol nomads of the north.

The historical narrative of what is now Eastern Inner Mongolia mostly consists of alternations between different Tungustic and Mongol tribes, rather than the struggle between nomads and Chinese agriculturalists.

By the 7th century AD, Chach had over 30 towns and a network of over 50 canals, forming a trade center between the Sogdians and Turkic nomads.

Other accounts say that it was the Changos who were nomads dedicated to fishing, and traveling between Caldera and Concepcion.

* When an invasion of nomads threatens the eastern possessions of his realm ( i. e. between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea and the Indian Ocean ), Seleucus hands over the government of these lands west of the Euphrates to his son Antiochus.

Pastoral nomads are nomads moving between pastures.

Trading routes between Central Asia, China and the Near East passed through the oases on the plateau and these ancient Altai nomads profited from the rich trade and culture passing through.

The straits were called the Cimmerian Bosporus because of the similarity to the Bosporus strait between Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara ( thence to the Dardanelles and Aegean Sea ), and after the Cimmerians the equestrian nomads on the steppes north of the Black Sea.

This was the kind of exchange relationship between nomads and urban craftsmen and traders in which the Kalmyks traditionally engaged.

According to Peter Golden, " steady pressure from Turkic nomads was typical of the Khazar era, although there are no unambiguous references to permanent settlements ", while Vladimir Minorsky stated that, in Islamic times, " the town of Qabala lying between Sharvan and Shakki was a place where Khazars were probably settled ".

It was the language of the Noba nomads who occupied the Nile between the First and Third Cataracts and the Makorae nomads who occupied the land between the Third and Fourth Cataracts following the collapse of the Kingdom of Kush sometime in the 4th century CE.

In the film, a group of Tuareg nomads in the Sahara races to find a power supply and broadcast reception for their television in time to watch the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final between Germany and Brazil, eventually using the tree sculpture as a makeshift antenna.

Kuchis ( from the Persian word koch meaning " migration "), are Afghan Pashtun nomads, primarily from the Ghilzai, Kakar, Lodi, Ahmadzai as well as some Durrani tribes, but occasionally there may also be some Baloch people among them that live a nomadic life travelling between pastoral lands in Afghanistan and in Pakistan.

To the east of Tashkent, the Ferghana Valley was an ethnically diverse, densely-populated region that was divided between settled farmers ( often called Sarts ) and nomads ( mostly Kyrgyz ).

And the Iaxartes forms also the boundary between the Sogdians and the nomads.

The Cimmerians, ancient equestrian nomads who bred cattle, occupied the North Pontic steppe zone including Prydniprovye ; their culture and civilization flourished between about 1000 and 800 BC The Cimmerians were driven out by the nomadic Scythians ( 700 BC ), who in turn were overcome by the Sarmatians from the East ( 200 BC ).

Outside these settlements, nomads tend their flocks during the rainy season, moving southward as forage and surface water disappear with the onset of the dry part of the year.

Mainstream Arab society can be conceived of as divided into three classes, Bedouin ( nomads ), farmers fellahin ( villagers ) and hadar ( townspeople ), though these are often little more than descriptive.

Between these policies, invasions into China from Turkic nomads, and his growing life of decadent luxury at the expense of the peasantry, he lost public support and was eventually assassinated by his own ministers.

Rudenko initially assigned the neutral label Pazyryk culture for these nomads and dated them to the 5th century BC.

Despite these seeming difficulties, Xanth was colonized in several waves by groups of invaders and nomads from Mundania over the course of several centuries.

Whether this development was influenced by the Assyrians, as Rubin postulates, or perhaps the Achaemenid Empire, or whether they occurred spontaneously and entirely unrelated to the advances in heavily armored cavalry made in the Ancient Near East, cannot be discerned by the archaeological records left by these mounted nomads.

In Australia, these travellers are known as grey nomads.

In the course of their migration, these primitive nomads were believed to have separated their ways in some portions of the archipelago in a spirit of adventure and search for food ( i. e., during the pleisto scene of the glacial ages ).

Before the era of firearms, these nomads were militarily superior to the agricultural states on the periphery of the Eurasian continent and, if they broke out into the plains of northern India or the valleys of China, were all but unstoppable.

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.

It was occupied by horse nomads for many centuries, and these were very often at war with China.

Monasteries such as Labrang, Repkong and Taktsang Lhamo appointed headmen, gowa ( go ba ), to the tribes within their areas, these tribes being groups consisting of several thousand nomads.

After a while, Sviatoslav returned to defeat these steppe nomads with a smaller force at the town of Snov, thus enhancing his prestige among the populace.

The steppe nomads were dependent on these settled people for a wide array of goods that were impossible for transient populations to produce.

The nomads traded for these when they could, but because they generally did not produce goods of interest to sedentary people, the popular alternative was to carry out raids.

Ta ’ isha is one of the Baqqara tribes, these nomads originated from the Guhayna group, a clan of Bedouin Arabs who came across the Sinai Peninsula from Arabia.

All these cities had Sufi shaykhs performing miracles for the nomads.

Thus, these Turkish nomads were easily converted to mystical Islam when the Sufi shaykhs promised them union with Allah.

However, the Ayran Flock Guardian or Sage Koochi steppe type that descends from the steppes of Asia, brought by the steppe nomads, used to domesticate the horse, control and defend large livestock far predates these breeds in working type, giving evidence of the genetic template of the Alaunt.

In 2008, in the wake of a Kuchi ( Pashtun nomads ) invasion into Hazara villages in Behsud and Daimirdad of Wardak Province and the indiscriminate killing of Hazaras, he went on a hunger strike protesting against the killings, incursions and the indifference of the Karzai government and the international community to these events.

In other cases, as with the Druids of the Celtic world and the shamans of ancient Eurasian nomads, the position within the caste may have depended more upon apprenticeship ; the exact nature of the " caste " in these cases is difficult to ascertain due to our lack of primary sources.

The steppe region had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas of the Asian continent.

But this population was destroyed or migrated elsewhere, apparently following a drought and severe societal upheaval in the 14th century, and for centuries thereafter, both the western and eastern mountainous areas of the county were occupied mostly by nomads, including the Ute and the Navajo Indians.

Early in the 20th century, Palestinians that lived in rural areas, either as farmers or as nomads.

Generally, the Mongols and the closely related Tatars inhabited the northern and the eastern areas ; the Türk ( who already had begun to spread over western Asia and southeastern Europe ) were in the west and the southwest ; the Tangut, who were more closely related to the Tibetans than were the other nomads and who were not a Turkic people, were in eastern Xinjiang, Gansu, and western Inner Mongolia.

What is now Niger was created from four distinct cultural areas in the pre-colonial era: the Djerma dominated Niger River valley in the southwest ; the northern perephery of Hausaland, made mostly of those states which had resisted the Sokoto Caliphate, and ranged along the long southern border with Nigeria ; the Lake Chad basin and Kaouar in the far east, populated by Kanuri farmers and Toubou pastoralists who had once been part of the Kanem-Bornu Empire ; and the Tuareg nomads of the Aïr Mountains and Saharan desert in the vast north.

In the opinion of most researchers, Kirghiz nomads initially used the areas in upper Gojal as winter pastures.

The steppe region had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas of the Asian continent.

Throughout their history, up to the development of gunpowder, all the areas of Eurasia would be repeatedly menaced by the Indo-Iranian, Turkic and Mongol nomads from the steppe.

The most important Islamic religious practices, such as the daily ritual prayers ( Salat ) and fasting ( Arabic صوم, Sawm, Ethiopic ጾም, S. om or Tsom-used by Christians as well ) during the holy month of Ramadan, are observed both in urban centers as well as in rural areas, among both settled peoples and nomads.

They are traditionally nomads, but since the late 20th century, many have moved to urban areas.

While the semi-arid plains were dominated by the nomads, small city-states and sedentary agrarian societies arose in the more humid areas of Central Asia.

The limes – the word from which the English word “ limit ” is derived – protected the areas that were under direct Roman control by funnelling contacts with the interior through the major settlements, regulating the links between the nomads and transhumants with the towns and farms of the occupied areas.

She argues that throughout the Gospel he denigrates the wealthy and powerful city dwellers while elevating nomads like the magi and those who live in villages and rural areas.

According to this idea, when the steppe areas shrank drastically, the nomads of Central Asia began moving to the fertile pastures of Europe or China.