The southern thrust of the Rus in the ninth–tenth centuries is to be explained not only by Viking hunger for wealth and glory, but also by the large, rapidly growing market for furs in the Caliphate. In order to reach that market, the Rus had to cross the Khazars’ sphere of influence in the steppes and wooded steppes of the Volga and Don regions.
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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
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Pitfalls of the geographic population structure (GPS) approach applied to human genetic history: a case study of Ashkenazi Jews [PDF]
In a recent interdisciplinary study, Das and co-authors have attempted to trace the homeland of Ashkenazi Jews and of their historical language, Yiddish (Das et al. 2016.
Changmai, P +5 more
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Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839) (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from European Russia: A new, detailed inventory of sites and referred material [PDF]
This paper presents a status review of the fossil remains discovered in European Russia and assigned to Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839).
Billia, Emmanuel
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The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish [PDF]
Recently, the geographical origins of Ashkenazic Jews (AJs) and their native language Yiddish were investigated by applying the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) to a cohort of exclusively Yiddish-speaking and multilingual AJs. GPS localized most AJs
Das, R. +3 more
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Biomass accumulation and energy conversion efficiency in aromatic rice genotypes [PDF]
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate photosynthetic efficiency along with different growth parameters of aromatic rice genotypes. Forty genotypes including three non-aromatic checks exhibited enormous variations for leaf area index (LAI), crop ...
Ashrafuzzaman, Muhammad +5 more
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Христианство на европейском Боспоре в византийско-хазарское время [PDF]
Распространение христианства на территории Боспора в 6 ...
Ермолин, С. А.
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Las prácticas literarias en medios digitales [PDF]
This research was conducted in a public high school in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, among 23 students from 15 to 16 years of age. The objective was to analyze how these/or no article third graders are related to reading in/read digital media ...
Bridon, Janete +2 more
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Ethno-Religious Heritage of Former Eastern Territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Contemporary Poland [PDF]
The main objective of this paper is to present the national and religious heritage of the Eastern Borderlands in contemporary Poland. The paper deals with the genesis and selected aspects of the spatial development of the ethnic and religious minorities (
Rykała, Andrzej
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Еще раз о византийско-хазарском кондоминиуме в Крыму в конце VII — первой половине VIII в. [PDF]
Статья посвящена анализу критики А.И. Айбабиным научной концепции о византийско-хазарском кондоминиуме в Таврике. Автор этой концепции и статьи полемизирует с оппонентом, не соглашаясь с его взглядами об установлении господства хазар над византийской ...
Сорочан, С.Б.
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