May 8, 2018 · Yakut ETHNONYMS: Sakha, Urangkhai Sakha, Yakutians Orientation Identification . The Yakut, who prefer to call themselves "Sakha," live in Yakutia, the Sovereign Sakha Republic [1] of …

The Sakha, or Yakut, people are the descendants of Turkic nomads and originated in the region around Lake Baikal in what is now Russia. Source for information on Sakha and Yakuts: Encyclopedia of …

Sakha ALTERNATE NAMES: Yakut LOCATION: Russia (Eastern Siberia) POPULATION: 443,852 (2002 census) LANGUAGE: Sakha (Yakut), Russian RELIGION: Eastern Orthodox Christianity and …

YAKUT RELIGION YAKUT RELIGION . The Yakuts, who numbered 328,000 during the 1979 census, are the northernmost of Turkic peoples. Beginning in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, under …

YāQūT AL-ḤAMAWī AL-RūMī, SHIHāM ALDīN ABū ʿABDALLāH YāQūT IBN ʿABD ALLāH (b.Rūm, Byzantine empire [now Turkey] 1179; d. Aleppo, Syria, 20 August 1229)transmission of knowledge, …

Russian Empire Type of Government The Russian Empire stretched from the Baltic Sea and eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, and during its nearly two-hundred-year history (1721–1917), it was …

May 29, 2018 · The remainder speak Russian (or, less commonly, Yakut or Buriat) as their first language. Many Evenki in the second group can speak Evenki at levels ranging from the mere …

Yaqut al-Hamawi (yäkōōt´ äl-hämäwē´), 1179–1229, Arab geographer. Born in Byzantium, he was bought as a slave by a merchant, al-Hamawi. He was freed on the death of his master and traveled …

May 18, 2018 · To the north, the neighbors of the Buriats were the Evenki and Yakut and to the south and east, related Mongolian tribes. Toward the middle of the seventeenth century during the Russian …

Evens who live near Yakut, Chukchi, or Koriak settlements have adopted the use of reindeer-drawn sleighs from them. The settled Evens of the Sea of Okhotsk coast also use dogsleds, and less …