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The first to write about the anthropological characteristics of Moksha and Erzya was the German encyclopedist, naturalist and traveler in the Russian service Peter Simon Pallas (1773), according to whose observations there were fewer light-blond and red-haired Mokshas than Erzyans, however, the latter also had dark blond hair. [31]
The authors of a letter sent to Literaturnaia gazeta from the Moksha Altä velä, Mordovia, call this ethnonym "a very nonsensical parasite-word," "a slur," "an awkward nickname" that can be blamed for the fact that "people have come to renounce their true origin, and have rushed in droves (especially the young people) to become Russians. And ...
The Temnikov Principality or Tümen Principality (Tatar: Төмән ханлыгы, romanized: Tömän xanlığı, [6] Italian: Tartari di Mordua, lit. 'Mordvin Tatars'), also known as or the Bekhanid Principality of Tümen was a Mishar and Moksha [7] principality in Eastern Mishar Yurt (Temnikovsky and Kadomsky Uyezds). [8]
Moksha (Russian: Мо́кша, Moksha: Йов) is a river in central Russia, a right tributary of the Oka. It flows through Penza Oblast , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Ryazan Oblast and the Republic of Mordovia , and joins the Oka near Pyatnitsky Yar, near the city of Kasimov .
Alternative name: Arabic: كبير, romanized: Kabeer, lit. 'Great' IPA ['ka.biːr] [3] Location: Penza Oblast, Russia: Region: Moxel: Coordinates: 1] [2]: Type: Cultural: Length: 2000: Width: 900: History; Material: stone: Founded: before 7th c AD: Abandoned: 1600s: Periods: Early Middle Ages: Cultures: Saltovo-Mayaki: Satellite of: Khazar Khaganate (since 8th c.): Events: Mongol Takeover in ...
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The Meshchera (Russian: мещера, meshchera or мещёра, meshchyora) lived in the territory between the Oka River and the Klyazma River. It was a land of forests, bogs and lakes. The area is still called the Meshchera Lowlands. The first Russian written source which mentions them is the Tolkovaya Paleya, from the 13th century. They are ...
Moksha Records, an English electronic music record company; Moksha (river), Russia; moksha (with lower-case "m", also called "Jehannum"), a character in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever; Moksha, a fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's Island; Moksha, the computer desktop environment of Bodhi Linux