Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR...
50 KB (5,750 words) - 17:44, 23 September 2024
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent...
184 KB (16,500 words) - 16:04, 8 October 2024
coal mining dating back into the Japanese Middle Ages. It is said that coal was first discovered in 1469 by a farming couple near Ōmuta, central Kyushu...
78 KB (11,990 words) - 02:23, 28 September 2024
The economy of Asia comprises about 4.7 billion people (60% of the world population) living in 50 different nations. Asia is the fastest growing economic...
97 KB (9,740 words) - 02:32, 3 September 2024
portal The legality of prostitution in Asia varies by country. There is often a significant difference in Asia between prostitution laws and the practice...
114 KB (9,603 words) - 02:32, 30 August 2024
Congo-Kinshasa. Cierny, J.; Weisgerber, G. (2003). "The "Bronze Age tin mines in Central Asia". In Giumlia-Mair, A.; Lo Schiavo, F. (eds.). The Problem of Early Tin...
17 KB (1,983 words) - 21:34, 11 August 2024
transit route for oil, natural gas, and electricity exports from Central Asia to South Asia and the Arabian Sea. This potential includes the construction...
45 KB (5,303 words) - 11:04, 13 July 2024
Highland Gold (category Gold mining companies)
Highland Gold (Highland Gold Mining Limited, HGML) is one of the leading gold miners in Russia and Central Asia. Mining operations are concentrated around...
4 KB (342 words) - 18:34, 24 November 2022
Bronze Age (redirect from Bronze Age of Southeast Asia)
reference to Central Asia as the "pastoral realm" or alternatively, the "nomadic world", in what researchers have come to call the "Central Asian void": a...
106 KB (12,151 words) - 06:51, 7 October 2024
Mongol invasions and conquests (redirect from Mongol World War)
into the 19th century. Genghis Khan forged the initial Mongol Empire in Central Asia, starting with the unification of the nomadic tribes of the Merkits,...
30 KB (3,054 words) - 08:27, 21 September 2024
The economy of South Asia comprises 2 billion people (25% of the world population) living in eight countries (though Afghanistan is sometimes excluded)...
48 KB (8,284 words) - 17:18, 13 September 2024
Europe (redirect from Northwestern Asia)
[13] Archived 21 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine, the World Bank "Europe & Central Asia | Data". Archived from the original on 19 February 2011. Retrieved...
244 KB (22,236 words) - 17:38, 24 September 2024
Iron Age (section Central Asia)
Basin region and to South Asia between the 12th and 11th century BC. Its further spread to Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Europe was somewhat delayed...
67 KB (6,674 words) - 13:11, 7 October 2024
Tin sources and trade during antiquity (category History of mining)
tools left at the site. While there are a few sources of cassiterite in Central Asia, namely in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, that show signs of...
29 KB (3,912 words) - 00:11, 14 June 2024
Oaky Creek coal mine (category Mines in Central Queensland)
in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 288 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and...
4 KB (297 words) - 11:21, 3 April 2023
using the liquation process creating a boost to the mining and metallurgy industries of Central Europe. Vast amounts of silver were brought into the...
25 KB (2,755 words) - 03:56, 24 July 2024
the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Asia and Africa" (PDF). Retrieved 5 September 2023. "Children out of mining". Pact. Retrieved 26 October...
75 KB (8,908 words) - 11:59, 9 September 2024
ranked 281–290 in Asia on the QS World University Rankings of 2023. It was ranked 1001–1200 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings...
28 KB (2,612 words) - 11:48, 29 September 2024
Culture of Iran (redirect from Iranian Contributions to World Civilization)
west; Central Asia to the north; and South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia to the east. Iranian history has had a significant influence on the world through...
73 KB (8,908 words) - 19:46, 18 August 2024
Uzbekistan. It was the first FIFA tournament ever hosted by Uzbekistan and a Central Asian country. The tournament returns to its usual four-year cycle after the...
95 KB (3,560 words) - 21:22, 8 October 2024
List of megalopolises (section Asia)
of a Growing Megalopolis", in Misra, R. P. (ed.), Urbanisation in South Asia, Foundation Books, pp. 109–141, doi:10.1017/9789382993087.005, ISBN 9789382993087...
28 KB (673 words) - 02:53, 18 August 2024
Scythians (redirect from Scythian kingdom in Western Asia)
nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where...
438 KB (53,516 words) - 00:23, 10 October 2024
in or can trace their ancestry to West Asia and Central Asia. The term West Asian Canadian is a subgroup of Asian Canadians and Middle Eastern Canadians...
36 KB (2,310 words) - 16:45, 15 July 2024
Great Game (category 19th century in Asia)
between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The two colonial empires...
161 KB (18,695 words) - 20:09, 3 October 2024
1968. In 1871, uranium ore mining began in Central City, Colorado, where 50 t were mined before 1895. In 1873, the uranium mining began in the South Terras...
155 KB (17,867 words) - 04:32, 27 September 2024
Geography of Uzbekistan (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the World Factbook)
Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia, located north of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. With an area of approximately 447,000 square kilometers, Uzbekistan...
36 KB (3,504 words) - 01:07, 4 October 2024
sediment, and produces most of the world's gold. Sometimes open-pit mining is used, such as at the Fort Knox Mine in central Alaska. Barrick Gold Corporation...
93 KB (10,180 words) - 01:08, 7 October 2024
delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator". Benar News. Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 8 August 2024. Koop, Fermín. "DEEP-SEA MINING BLOCKS TRANSITION...
78 KB (9,220 words) - 19:57, 6 October 2024
Hochschild Mining plc is a leading British-based silver and gold mining business operating in North, Central, and South America. It is headquartered in...
5 KB (336 words) - 18:04, 21 July 2024
history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the...
110 KB (13,991 words) - 12:37, 3 October 2024