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Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Aral Sea

The Aral Sea (Kazakh: Арал Теңізі) is an endorheic inland sea in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. Since the 1960s the Aral Sea has been shrinking, as the rivers that feed it (the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya) were diverted by the Soviet Union for irrigation. The Aral Sea is badly polluted, largely as the result of weapons testing, industrial projects, and fertilizer runoff before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Aral Sea - ...

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Aral Sea - Ecological problems

Aral Sea - History

Aral Sea - Current situation

Aral Sea - Possible solutions

Aral Sea - Bioweapons facility on the Vozrozhdeniya Island

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Aral Sea: Encyclopedia II - Aral Sea - Ecological problems

The major ecological problem is that diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for irrigation has shrunk the Aral Sea dramatically; the Aral Sea has been drying up for about 40 years. This has brought about a number of ecological problems for the sea and the surrounding area. Aral Sea - History. The Soviet Union decided in 1918 that the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya in the south and the Syr Darya in the northeast, would be diverted to irrigate the desert, in order to grow rice, melo ...

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Caspian Sea - Geography

Caspian Sea - Cities near the Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea - History

Caspian Sea - Fauna

Caspian Sea - Oil

Caspian Sea - International Disputes

Caspian Sea - Characteristics and ecology

Caspian Sea - Transportation

Caspian Sea - Freezing

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia II - Caspian Sea - International disputes

There are three major issues regulated by the Caspian Sea status: access to mineral resources (oil and natural gas), access for fishing and access to international waters (through Russia's Volga river and the canals connecting it to the Black Sea and Baltic Sea). Access to the Volga-river is particulary important for the landlocked states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. This issue is of course sensible to Russia, because this potential traffic will move through its territory (albeit onto the inland waterways). If a body of water ...

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Communist state - Definition of a Communist state

Communist state - Historical examples

Communist state - Early examples of communist societies

Communist state - 20th century

Communist state - Communist theories and ideologies of government

Communist state - Relationship between party and state

Communist state - Criticism and advocacy

Communist state - List of current Communist states

Communist state - Defunct Communist states

Communist state - References and further reading

Communist state - References on human rights violations by Communist states

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia II - Caspian Sea - Geography

The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia (Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Turkmenistan (Balkan Province), and Kazakhstan, with the central Asian steppes to the north and east. On its eastern Turkmen shore is a large embayment, the Kara Bogaz Gol. The sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Manych Canal. Caspian ...

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Water resources - Water and conflict

Water resources - Sources of fresh water

Water resources - Surface water

Water resources - Sub-surface water

Water resources - Desalination

Water resources - Frozen water

Water resources - Threats to fresh water

Water resources - Climate change

Water resources - Depletion of aquifiers

Water resources - Pollution and water protection

Water resources - Uses of fresh water

Water resources - Agricultural

Water resources - Industrial

Water resources - Household

Water resources - Recreation

Water resources - Environmental

Water resources - World water supply and distribution

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Watershed

A watershed is a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, ocean or wetland. A watershed includes both the waterway and the land that drains to it. Each watershed is separated topographically by a ridge, hill or mountain. A watershed is like a funnel - collecting all the water within the drainage area and channeling it into a waterway. So defined it may also be called a water basin or catchment basin, and this is the sense intended in this article, unles ...

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Watershed - Watersheds in ecology

Watershed - Watersheds in politics

Watershed - Analyzing watersheds

Watershed - Ocean watersheds

Watershed - Footnote

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Central Asia

Central Asia (Russian: Среднaя Азия/"Srednaya Azia" for "Middle Asia" or Центральная Азия/"Tsentral'naya Azia" for "Central Asia"; in Persian آسياى ميانه; Standard Mandarin Chinese: 中亚/ pinyin: "Zhōngyà"; Arabic: ﺔﻄﻮﺳﻠﺍ ﺎﺴﻴﺁ/"Asya al Wsta") is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics. ...

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Central Asia - Definitions

Central Asia - Geography

Central Asia - Climate

Central Asia - History

Central Asia - Geostrategy

Central Asia - Oil politics

Central Asia - War on Terror

Central Asia - Culture

Central Asia - Religions

Central Asia - Arts

Central Asia - Demographics

Central Asia - Languages

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Uzbekistan

The Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south. Uzbekistan - History. Main articles: History of Uzbekistan, and [[{{{2}}}]]Including:

Uzbekistan - History

Uzbekistan - Politics

Uzbekistan - Human rights

Uzbekistan - Geography

Uzbekistan - Subdivisions

Uzbekistan - Enclaves and exclaves

Uzbekistan - Economy

Uzbekistan - Demographics

Uzbekistan - Communications

Uzbekistan - Transportation

Uzbekistan - Military

Uzbekistan - Foreign relations

Uzbekistan - Culture

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Ahmad ibn-al-'Abbas ibn Rashid ibn-Hammad ibn-Fadlan (Ahmad bin al-Abbās bin Rashîd bin Hammād binn Fadlān أحمد ابن العباس ابن رشيد ابن حماد ابن فضلان) was an Arab writer and traveler who wrote an account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars (Kitāb ilá malik aṣ-Ṣaqālibah كتاب إلى ملك الصقالبة). Ahmad ibn Fadlan - Manuscript Tradition. For a long time, only an incomplete versio ...

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Ahmad ibn Fadlan - Manuscript Tradition

Ahmad ibn Fadlan - The Embassy

Ahmad ibn Fadlan - The Rus

Ahmad ibn Fadlan - Fiction

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Persian Empire

The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). Persia's earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire, followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian." Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the Persian Empire by Western historians. Persian Empire - The name Persia. Persia has long ...

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Persian Empire - The name Persia

Persian Empire - The rise and fall of empires in Persia

Persian Empire - The first Persian state: Achaemenid Persia 648 BC-330 BC

Persian Empire - Hellenistic Persia 330 BC-150 BC

Persian Empire - Parthian Persia 150 BC-AD 226

Persian Empire - Sassanid Persia AD 226-650

Persian Empire - Islam and Persia 650-1219

Persian Empire - Persia under the Turkic rule 1037-1219

Persian Empire - Persia under the Mongols and their successors 1219-1500

Persian Empire - A new Persian empire: the Safavids 1500-1722

Persian Empire - Persia and Europe 1722-1914

Persian Empire - Persia in World War One 1914-1918

Persian Empire - Persia after World War One 1919-1935

Persian Empire - List of Kings and Emperors of Persia

Aral Sea: Encyclopedia - Sea

A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, but the term was applied to it anyway. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in the tropical sea or down to the sea shore, or even sea water referring to water of the ocean. Large lakes are sometimes referred t ...

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Sea - List of seas divided by ocean

Sea - Landlocked seas

Sea - Extraterrestrial seas

Sea - Science

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Aral Sea: Encyclopedia II - Caspian Sea - Characteristics and ecology

The Caspian has characteristics common to both seas and lakes. It is often listed as the world's largest lake, though it is not a freshwater lake. The Volga River (about 80% of the inflow) and the Ural River discharge into the Caspian Sea, but it is endorheic, i.e. there is no natural outflow (other than by evaporation). Thus the Caspian ecosystem is a closed basin, with its own sea level history that is independent of the eustatic level of the world's oceans. The Caspian became landlocked about 5.5 million years ago. The level of the ...

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