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Susan Mayhew. Containing over 6,400 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography, this best-selling dictionary is the most comprehensive single-volume reference work of its kind. It includes coverage of cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development, as well as up-to-date ...
- Susan Mayhew
Nov 11, 2004 · Abstract. Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today’s Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples’ trajectory from steppe, to empire, to ...
- Carter Vaughn Findley
May 17, 2016 · Historiographical studies of human geography outline a disjointed narrative: geography emerged in the early nineteenth century, characterized by environmental determinism and historicism. 4 It became an arm of European imperialism, and fell into a crisis of disciplinary definition until the publication of Richard Hartshorne’s ‘Nature of Geography’ in 1939. 5 Hartshorne urged geographers ...
- Courtney J. Campbell
- 2016
Turkic peoples, any of various peoples whose members speak languages belonging to the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic family of languages. They are historically and linguistically connected with the Tujue, the name given to the nomadic people who founded an empire stretching from what is now Mongolia to the Black Sea.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Time-space compression refers to the set of processes that cause the relative distances between places (i.e., as measured in terms of travel time or cost) to contract, effectively making such places grow “closer.”. The idea of a “shrinking world” is not new and, in the face of rapid advances in travel, such as the jet airplane, and ...
Jun 5, 2016 · In the second half of the first millennium CE, Turkic peoples were gradually streaming into most of Central Asia from their original homeland in the Altai mountains of western Mongolia. They ...
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The Turks are a diverse ethnic group primarily associated with the Turkic language family, originating from Central Asia and later establishing significant political and cultural influence in the Middle East and beyond. This group has played a crucial role in shaping the history of the region, particularly through the establishment of empires and states, including the Ottoman Empire, which ...
