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    The Sayan Mountains (Russian: Саяны Sajany; Mongolian: Соёны нуруу, Soyonï nurû; Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰇𐰏𐰢𐰤, romanized: Kögmen) are a mountain range in southern...
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    49°N 89°E / 49°N 89°E / 49; 89 The Altai Mountains (/ɑːlˈtaɪ/), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where...
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  • The Altai-Sayan region is an area of Inner Asia proximate to the Altai Mountains and the Sayan Mountains, near to where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan...
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  • The battle of Sayan Mountains was a major battle between the Göktürks and Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate followed by a successful battle led by Tonyukuk. When...
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    Hanging Stone (category Sayan Mountains)
    edge of a cliff above Lake Raduzhnoye (Rainbow Lake) in the western Sayan Mountains in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The stone is an attraction in the Ergaki...
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    ridge Sunduki mountain range Sayan Mountains ( Western and Eastern ) Ergaki Kitoy Range Kropotkin Range (Eastern Sayan) Tannu Ola Baikal Range Khamar...
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  • Look up Sayan or sa:सायण in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sayan may refer to: Sayan Mountains, a mountain range in Siberia Sayan, India, a city in...
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    The Sayan montane conifer forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0519) covers the mid-elevation levels of the Sayan Mountains, the high mountain range between the...
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    The Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1016) is an ecoregion that covers the high areas of the Sayan Mountains above the treeline, between...
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  • primarily along the Altai and Sayan mountain ranges in Khakassia and Tuva as well as a small area in the Khamar-Daban Mountains near Lake Baikal in Buryatia...
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    splitting it in half, stretching 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) from the Sayan Mountains in the south along the Yenisei River to the Taymyr Peninsula in the...
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    Siberian System of mountains) Pontic Mountains – 1,000 km (620 mi) (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Eastern Sayan Mountains – 1,000 km (620 mi)...
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    Ergaki (category Sayan Mountains)
    is a mountain range in the Western Sayan Mountains in southern Siberia, Russia. Ergaki Nature Park is a protected area which contains the mountain range...
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    Samoyedic (Selkups) with a further subgroup of Sayan-Samoyedics (Kamasins, Mators) named after the Sayan Mountains. They are however purely geographical, and...
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    Southern Samoyedic languages were spoken by some peoples living in the Sayan Mountains, but language shift has taken place, making all these languages extinct...
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    Tuva (section Mountains)
    Republic is made up of a mountain basin, about 600 m high, encircled by the Sayan and Tannu-Ola mountain ranges. Mountains and hills cover over 80% of...
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    founded the state 711: The Second Turkic Khaganate won the Battle of Sayan Mountains 758: The Uyghur Khaganate conquers the Kyrgyz Khaganate 840: The Kyrgyz...
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    Tannu-Ola mountain range (known in ancient times as the Lao or Kogmen mountains), in modern-day Tuva, just north of Mongolia. The Sayan Mountains were also...
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    wild in Southern Siberia, Kazakhstan, the Altay region, and Western Sayan Mountains. Maral root is widely cultivated throughout Russia and Eastern Europe...
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  • taiga for most of her life. As of 2016, she resides in the Western Sayan mountains, in the Republic of Khakassia. Lykova became a national phenomenon...
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    it is "the peoples living between Altai and Lake Baikal along the Sayan mountains that are genetically closest to" Indigenous Americans. Some scientific...
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    Samoyedic (Selkups) with a further subgroup of Sayan-Samoyedic (Kamasins, Mators) named after the Sayan Mountains. This classification does not reflect linguistic...
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    Dhole (redirect from Mountain wolf)
    Tarbagatai Mountains, dholes prey on Siberian ibexes, arkhar, roe deer, Caspian red deer and wild boar. In the Altai and Sayan Mountains, they prey on...
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    border with Mongolia (the eastern and western Sayan Mountains and the western extremity of the Altay Mountains), and in eastern Siberia (a complex system...
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    part of South Central Siberia, between the Kuznetsk Alatau and the Sayan Mountains, includes the steppe of the Minusinsk Depression which is the core...
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  • Otuken (section Mountain)
    probably stretched "from the Khangai Range of Central Mongolia to the Sayan Mountains of Tuva, at the centre of which is the Orkhon Valley", which for centuries...
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    in Mongolia (Ulaangom cemetery), refers to the Saka culture of the Sayan Mountains, in modern-day Tuva Republic. It is the last stage of the Uyuk culture...
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    Lukhtanov, 1984 Altai Mountains, Sayan Mountains Oeneis alpina Kurentzov, 1970 Oeneis ammon Elwes, 1899 Altai Mountains, Sayan Mountains Oeneis ammosovi Dubatolov...
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    are part of the watershed of the Yenisei River, facing the western Sayan Mountains. The eastern end touches the large watershed of the Selenge River in...
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  • This is a list of mountain ranges in Asia. "Mountains in Oman". omantourism.gov.om. Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman. Retrieved 10 November 2017...
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