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A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia. [1]
Mishar Yurt (Tatar: Мишәр йорты, Mişär yortı, مىشەر يۇرتئ; in Russian chronicles – Мещерский юрт / Meshcherskiy yurt [1]; literally The home of Mişärs) was a semi-autonomous principality of the Golden Horde at the border of Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Ryazan duchies.
A kibitka (Russian: кибитка, from the Arabic kubbat, 'dome') is a pastoralist yurt of late-19th-century Kyrgyz and Kazakh nomads. [1] The word also refers to a Russian type of carriage [2] or sleigh. Aleksander Orłowski, "Traveler in a kibitka" 19th-century prison van known in Polish as kibitka
The word chum (Russian: чум) came from Komi-Zyrian: ćom or Udmurt: ćum, both mean "tent, shelter". [3] In different languages it has different names: Nenets : ḿāʔ [mʲaːʔ] , Nganasan : maʔ , Khanty : (ńuki) χot.
Yert (Yakut: Өрт, Ört; Russian: Ерт) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Shologonsky Rural Okrug of Gorny District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 80 kilometers (50 mi) from Berdigestyakh, the administrative center of the district. [1]
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kizilyurt serves as the administrative center of Kizilyurtovsky District, even though it is not a part of it. [1] As an administrative division, it is, together with two settlements of urban type (Bavtugay and Novy Sulak) and one rural locality (the selo of Stary Bavtugay), incorporated separately as the Town of Kizilyurt—an administrative ...
Akhmat-Yurt (Russian: Ахмат-Юрт; [5] Chechen: Ахьмад-Йурт, romanized: Aẋmad-Yurt), formerly known as Tsentaroy or Tsentoroy in Russian (Центарой or Центорой) and Khosi-Yurt in Chechen (Хоси-Юрт), is a rural locality (a selo) in Kurchaloyevsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia.
The village of Gazi-Yurt is situated on the right bank of the Sunzha River, approximately 1.5 km northeast of the regional center city of Nazran and 9 km north of Magas.It is surrounded by several neighboring settlements including Barsuki to the west, Plievo to the north, Yandare to the northeast, Surkhakhi to the southeast, and Ekazhevo to the southwest.