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Steppe:
level, grassy treeless plain, esp in SE Europe and central Asia (--Oxford
Adbanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English).
the Steppe, belt of grassland that extends some 5,000 miles
(8,000 kilometres) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and
Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt
the steppe, dividing it into distinct segments; but horsemen
could cross such barriers easily, so that steppe peoples could
and did interact across the entire breadth of the Eurasian
grassland throughout most of recorded history. (--Britannica - The Online
Encyclopedia) |
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