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They convene and connect, providing Houston business, academic, and civil leaders, as well as the interested general public, with useful, thought-provoking analysis of developments in Asia that impact Texas and the Gulf Coast region. Houston's ties with Asia are strong. Asia is vital to the energy industry and East Asia trade is the fastest ...
Plaza of the Presidents, National Museum of the Pacific War. The list of museums in Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Museum District Station is a light rail station on the METRORail Red Line in Houston, Texas . It serves the Houston Museum District . [ 1 ] According to METRO, there are fourteen museums within four blocks of the Museum District Station.
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion. Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
A depiction of Central Asia in dark-green along with some nearby associated regions in light-green. Greater Central Asia (GCA) is a variously defined region encompassing the area in and around Central Asia, by one definition including Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Xinjiang (in China), and Afghanistan, [1] and by a more expansive definition, excluding Turkey but including Mongolia and parts of India ...
In 1937, they were all deported to Central Asia. They have since dispersed throughout the former Soviet Union, with significant populations in Siberia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Approximately 500,000 Koryo-saram reside in the former Soviet Union, primarily in the now-independent states of Central Asia.
Homo sapiens reached Central Asia by 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. The Tibetan Plateau is thought to have been reached by 38,000 years ago. [7] [8] [9] The currently oldest modern human sample found in northern Central Asia, is a 45,000-year-old remain, which was genetically closest to ancient and modern East Asians, but his lineage died out quite early.
The Chorasmian Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (also known as Choresmian Expedition, Khorezmian Expedition) explored a large area of Central Asia, where between 1937 and 1991 its members found and recorded almost a thousand archaeological sites. It was the biggest and longest-lasting of all ...