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  2. Bashkortostan - Wikipedia

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    The name "Bashkortostan" derives from the name of the Bashkir ethnic group. While the endonym having various theories on its meaning, the most prominent is being a combination of Turkic words baş, meaning 'head', 'chief', 'main', 'principal' and qurt meaning 'wolf', one of the animals regarded as sacred to Turkic peoples); [26] the suffix -stan is Persian, commonly used for many Eurasian ...

  3. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia

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    This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...

  4. Bashkirs - Wikipedia

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    The Mausoleum of Hussein-Bek, burial place of the first Imam of historical Bashkortostan, is preserved in contemporary Bashkortostan. The mausoleum is a 14th-century building. Catherine the Great established the Orenburg Mohammedan Spiritual Assembly in 1788 in Ufa , which was the first Muslim administrative center in Russia.

  5. List of countries and territories in Asia - Wikipedia

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    South Asia India Pakistan Bhutan Nepal Bangladesh Sri Lanka Maldives British Indian Ocean Territory (British Overseas Territories) East Asia China North Korea South Korea Mongolia Japan Republic of China(Taiwan) Hong Kong (special administrative region, China) Macao (special administrative region, China) Southeast Asia Indonesia

  6. List of Asian countries by area - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of countries in Asia by area. [1] Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.

  7. Ufa - Wikipedia

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    Ufa (/ ˈ uː f ə / OO-fə; Russian: Уфа IPA: ⓘ; Bashkir: Өфө, romanized: Öfö, IPA: [ʏ̞ˈfʏ̞] ⓘ) is the largest city in and the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the Ufa Plateau to the west of the southern Ural Mountains, with a population of over 1.1 million ...

  8. List of Asian countries by population - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]

  9. Republics of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Bashkortostan's power-sharing treaty expired on 7 July 2005, [62] [better source needed] leaving Tatarstan as the sole republic to maintain its autonomy, which was renewed on 11 July 2007. [63] After an attack by Chechen separatists at a school in Beslan , North Ossetia , Putin abolished direct elections for governors and assumed the power to ...