9 résultats pour "uzbek"

• Uzbekistan - country.

  E Environmental Issues The evaporation of the Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters in the world. The Aral has shrunk so much that it now holds only about one-fifth the volume ofwater it held in 1960. The shrinkage is due to irrigation withdrawals from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a practice that began on a massive scale in the early 1960s aspart of the Soviet Union’s ill-conceived drive to increase cotton yields in Central Asia. Growing cotton in the naturally arid and saline soil...

• Tajikistan - country.

  by more than 100 percent due to a high birth rate and improvements in medical care. During the early 1990s, however, the growth rate began to decline due to civilwar and emigration. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Tajiks constitute the largest ethnic group in Tajikistan, making up about 65 percent of the population. The peoples who live in Gorno-Badakhshan, located in the Pamirs,are classified as Tajiks, although their languages and customs are distinct. The largest minority group in the country...

• Kyrgyzstan - country.

  are Bishkek, the capital, located on the Chu River in the far north; and Osh, located in the Fergana Valley. A Ethnic Groups Ethnic Kyrgyz make up about 65 percent of the population of Kyrgyzstan. Uzbeks, who live primarily in the Fergana Valley, constitute about 14 percent of thepopulation. Russians, who live principally in Bishkek and other industrial centers, make up about 13 percent of the population. Other ethnic groups include Hui (ChineseMuslims, also known as Dungans), Ukrainians, Uygur...

• Lettres persanes Lettre CXLI, Rica à Uzbek Charles de Montesquieu De Paris, le 26 de la lune de Gemmadi 1720 J'irai te voir sur la fin de la semaine.

  aussitôt la mort, dans l'impatience d'en jouir ; aussi les femmes vertueuses iront dans un lieu de délices où elles seront enivrées d'un torrent de voluptés, avec des hommes divins qui leur seront soumis : chacune d'elles aura un sérail, dans lequel ils seront enfermés ; et des eunuques, encore plus fidèles que les nôtres pour les garder. J'ai lu, ajouta-t-elle, dans un livre arabe, qu'un homme, nommé Ibrahim, était d'une jalousie insupportable. Il avait douze femmes extrêmement belles, qu'il tr...

• Afghanistan - country.

  D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...

• Lettre XXIII

  antithèse afin de donner une vision bien claire au lecteur ,à travers Ibben, sur les choses les plus attirantes chez les livournais « il y a jusque dans les moindres bagatelles quelque chose de singulier que je sens » où les mots "bagatelles" et "singulier" soulignent cette opposition. Malgré cet étonnement le dessein majeur d’Uzbek est Paris qui la qualifie par : « le siège de l’empire d’Europe », « les grandes villes » et qui veut y rendre "incessamment". En guise de concl...

• Kazakhstan - country.

  mismanagement. Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet government conducted about 70 percent of all of its nuclear testing in Kazakhstan, mostly in the northeastern area near the city ofSemipalatinsk (now Semey). Nearly 500 nuclear explosions occurred both above and below ground near Semipalatinsk, while more than 40 nuclear detonationsoccurred at other testing grounds in western Kazakhstan and in the Qyzylqum desert. More than 1 million of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants were exposed to dangerous levelsof ra...

• Turkmenistan - country.

  A Ethnic Groups With Turkmens constituting 77 percent of the population, Turkmenistan is the most ethnically homogeneous of the Central Asian republics. Uzbeks make up the largestminority group, with about 9 percent of the population. Other ethnic groups include Russians, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Azeris (ethnic Azerbaijanis), Armenians, andBaluch. In 1993 a bilateral treaty between Turkmenistan and Russia granted dual citizenship to Russians in the republic. At the 1995 census Russians cons...

• Deux philosophes romanciers : Montesquieu et Voltaire - Histoire de la littérature

  LE ROMA N AU XVIII• SIÈCLE, 1715-1760 > plus ou moins arrangé, ils n'ont rien écrit qui soit pour leur doctrine ce que le Tél émaque était pour la pensée de Féne lon, ou même Cleoeland pour la méditation de Prévost. Dans les rubriques �. En somme Montes­ quieu a concilié les avantages des lettres décousues et du roman cohérent : si l'unité de l'œuvre ne résidait que dans ce compromis , elle serait sans rigueur et la partie romanesque ne serait en ré...