The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland hypothesis" depicts Eastern European Jews as a "population isolate" that emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and expanded rapidly. Alternatively, the "Khazarian hypothesis" suggests that Eastern European Jews descended from the Khazars...

Described from the steppe zones north of the Black Sea, Caucasus, and central Asia, Gryllotalpa stepposa Zhantiev was recently recorded from a few localities in Greece, R. Macedonia, and Bulgaria. In May 2015, several specimens were collected from Ivrinezu Mare in Romania, which suggested a continuous distribution area of the species, stretching from the central Balkans to central Asia. Thus, t...

[1] The Arabia-Eurasia collision deforms an area of 3,000,000 km of continental crust, making it one of the largest regions of convergent deformation on Earth. There are now estimates for the active slip rates, total convergence and timing of collision-related deformation of regions from western Turkey to eastern Iran. This paper shows that extrapolating the present day slip rates of many activ...

the fall of soviet :union: and independence of republics of central asia as well as south caucasus have brought both chances and challenges for iran. at first it seemed that muslim republics, which broke from soviet :union:, might have brought great chances for iran to promote her ideological claims and economic interests. dreams of islamic revolution in new independent central asian republics ...

armenian lobby is one of most powerful ethnic lobbies in u.s. all branches of this lobby try to direct us foreign policy on their interests. armenian national committee and armenian assembly are two famous organization of armenian lobby. they try to achieve three obvious goals of armenian lobby which are recognition of armenian genocide by ottoman empire between 1915-1922, recognition of indepe...

The localisation of the three cities / centres early Rus’ mentioned by Islamic authors is complicated due to significant differences in versions this plot. However, traditional orientation most historical interpretations Eastern Slavic medieval realities does not find confirmation narrative and archaeological data. original core plot was connected with state-political formations that left monum...