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	Siberia
		Whole caravans of country people and women intended for the Cossacks were sent to Siberia at government expense to promote agriculture and to accustom the Cossacks to a settled mode of life; this was accompanied by concessions in the payment of taxes.
		In the interior of Siberia there was a great increase of the colonizing movement in the nineteenth century; from the thirties on especially there was a great number of exiles.
		Among the causes for this decline, outside of the small natural increase of the aborigines, are such diseases as small-pox and typhus that have been introduced by Europeans, the injury done by brandy, the decline of the chase, and the steady advance of the Russian peasant.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/siberia.html (2363 words)

	Siberia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Siberia’s administrative units are the Altai, Buryat, Khakass, and Tuva republics, the Altai and Krasnoyarsk territories, the Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, and Chita regions, and the Taymyr, Ust-Ordyn-Buryat, and Evenki autonomous areas.
		Siberia may be divided, from north to south, into the zones of vegetation that run across Russia—the tundra (extending c.200 mi/320 km inland along the entire Arctic coast), the taiga, the mixed forest belt, and the steppe zone.
		Siberia was used as a penal colony and a place of exile for political prisoners; among the latter there emerged (especially after the exile of leaders of the Decembrist Conspiracy of 1825) a small but vocal Siberian intelligentsia, who agitated for an end of Siberia’s colonial status.
	www.bartleby.com /65/si/Siberia.html (2031 words)

	Asia - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Siberia is overlain by acidic forest soils characteristic of the tundra and taiga; permafrost is common, and drainage is usually poor.
		The climate of the continent is as varied as its surface configuration—ranging from equatorial rainforest to Arctic tundra.
		The fauna of Asia is as diverse as the continent's climates, terrain, and vegetation.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761574726___0/Asia.html (11478 words)

	Asia - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The continent may also be divided into two broad cultural realms: that which is predominantly Asian in culture (East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia) and that which is not (Southwest Asia, Central Asia, and Russian Asia).
		Manufacturing in Siberia is clustered near the Ural Mountains; near major urban areas along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, such as Novosibirsk; and near isolated centers in far eastern Russia.
		The continent’s chief transportation mode is the railroad.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761574726__1/Asia.html (17287 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Siberia
		Siberia (Russian: Ð¡Ð¸Ð±Ð¸ÌÑÑ, Sibir; Tatar: Seber) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia.
		Siberia was occupied by differing groups of nomads such as the Yenets, the Nenets, the Huns, and the Uyghurs.
		Siberia is filled with natural resources and during the 20th century these were developed, and industrial towns cropped up throughout the region.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Siberia (1571 words)

	Siberia (continent) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Siberia (Sometimes called Angara) is the craton located in the heart of the region of Siberia.
		~Carboniferous, Siberia collided with the minor continent of Kazakstania.
		~Present day, Siberia is part of the continent of Asia which is part of Eurasia.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Siberia_(continent) (332 words)

	SIBERIA MAPPING
		Siberia is a part of Asian territory of Russia.
		At the beginning of the 18th century Russian possession in the North and East of Siberia reached natural borderlands (with small exceptions): the frontier on the South followed the boundary between forests and steppes, the foothill of Altai and Sayan Mountains, Yablonovy and Stanovoi Ranges.
		The Northern and Eastern boarders of Asian continent were defined and mapped, the correlation between Asian continent and North America was established, the sea routes from Okhotsk to Kamchatka and from Kamchatka to Japan were laid during that century.
	www.nlr.ru:8101 /eng/exib/siberia/sib01.htm (467 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Siberia is overlain by acidic forest soils characteristic of the tundra and taiga; permafrost is common here, and drainage is usually poor.
		The fauna of the continent is as diversified as its climates, terrain, and vegetation.
		The continent of Asia may be divided into two cultural realms: that which is Asian in culture (East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia) and that which is not (former Soviet Asia and Southwest Asia).
	history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..as157900.a#FWNE.fw..a... (10732 words)

	Latitude 38 Features: Circumnavigating, Siberian Style
		Unfortunately, before Siberia even cast off her docklines last summer, the ruble had become so drastically devalued that the relative worth of the team's war chest was greatly diminished.
		According to Siberia's crew, one of the most exciting moments of their journey was arriving at Cape Chelyuskin on August 20, the northernmost point on the Asian continent.
		Not surprisingly, Siberia was only the third vessel ever to reach Chelyuskin without the aid of an icebreaker - but neither of her predecessors continued on around the world.
	www.latitude38.com /features/Siberia.htm (1897 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		A small portion of those who went to Siberia were Jews looking to escape anti-Semitism in the Pale of Settlement, the swath of land in western Russia, where Jews generally were forced to live after 1835.
		The Jewish population of Siberia swelled during World War I, when Czar Nicholas II sent to the region Jewish soldiers, whom he feared were German spies.
		Today, Siberia’s Jews are free to practice their religion as they see fit, but few are interested in the Jewish tradition, local Jewish officials said.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=10816 (695 words)

	Siberia - part one
		Siberia is so big that you cannot see it all at the same time from space.
		Russians exploring Siberia at the beginning of the 17th century first heard about the country from people who were calling it the far off land, so that it what the name Yakutia really means.
		This is one of the few pieces of the original continents to have survived the massive catastrophe that occurred to the solar system about 3.9 billion years.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /heather.hobden1/Siberiahistory1.htm (4553 words)

	Freeman-Lynde GLY116 Paleozoic Tectonics Questions
		Matching: Match the modern continents or parts of continents in the column on the left with their equivalent Paleozoic continent in the columns on the right and enter your choice on the computer answer sheet.
		A _________________ is the ancient geologically-stable central nucleus of a continent.
		(#1 is the ancient geologically-stable nucleus of a continent, and #2 is an elongate zone of intense deformation and igneous activity).
	www.arches.uga.edu /~rfreeman/Paleozoic_tectonics_questions.html (2727 words)

	Encyclopedia
		He entered the newly formed navy of the Russian czar Peter the Great and in 1724 was appointed to conduct an expedition to explore the water routes between Siberia and North America.
		He passed north through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, but because of bad weather he did not sight the North American continent; he did prove, however, that the Asian and North American continents are not joined.
		He sailed into the Gulf of Alaska and sighted the continent north of what is now Cape Saint Elias, Alaska, on July 29, and shortly afterward landed on Kayak Island.
	historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..be077400.a (329 words)

	Siberia, The Big Bang of Life? :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		It also suggests that trilobites, the long-ago forbearers of crabs and lobsters, originated in present-day Siberia when it was a separate continent from Asia and located much farther south.
		When rocks are formed, their magnetic minerals align to the earth's magnetic field, providing Meert the clues he needed to plot the original locations of his specimens on a globe.
		The separate continents drifted northward toward the equator at about six inches per year, with this relatively rapid movement ending about 500 million years ago, they found.
	www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=917 (935 words)

	Warming Up to Siberia
		Siberia's frigid tundra is yielding new evidence about medieval life at the Arctic Circleand, at another site, potential clues to the peopling of North America.
		Digging in a medieval cemetery in the Ural Mountains region, archaeologists found 34 graves with human remains mummified by the cold, dry climate of the tundra.
		Meanwhile, thousands of miles east on the Yana River in northeastern Siberia, archaeologists have discovered the oldest known Ice Age settlement north of the Arctic Circle.
	www.archaeology.org /0403/newsbriefs/siberia.html (429 words)

	Unique Facts about Asia: Siberia
		Siberia (possibly from the Mongolian for "the calm land") is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia.
		Siberia remained a mostly unexplored and uninhabited area.
		The other group that were sent to Siberia were prisoners exiled from western Russia.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Asiaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Asia9.htm (648 words)

	The Posthorn
		Relative to the interesting subject of "Via Siberia" mail, raised in Alfred A. Gruber's article on that subject in the August 1998 Posthorn, he is quite correct in his assumption of why that marking was used.
		"Via Siberia" international mail routing was suspended with the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) and not resumed for international mail until about 1923.
		The preponderance of "privately" applied direction markings should not obscure the fact that this was an official international mail route that can be seen in Imperial Russia postal documents as early as 1 October 1903.
	www.scc-online.org /ph98novsiberia.htm (494 words)

	Siberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		From the historical point of view, the whole Russian Far East is considered a part of Siberia.
		Main article: History of Siberia Siberia was occupied by differing groups of nomads such as the Yenets, the Nenets, the Huns, and the Uyghurs.
		Siberia has a population density of only 3 persons per square kilometer.
	siberia.iqnaut.net (946 words)

	j. - Jews came to Siberia seeking safety and prosperity
		The targets of deadly anti-Semitism and mass expulsions elsewhere on the continent, Jews historically have looked to Siberia as something of a refuge from hostile local governments who killed, exploited or expelled their Jews.
		"Siberia was the worst place to be Jewish during Soviet times," says Zev Vagner, a Moscow-based rabbi and author of the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia.
		Today, Siberia's Jews are free to practice their religion as they see fit, but few are interested in the Jewish tradition, local Jewish officials say.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20677/edition_id/423/format/html/displaystory.html (762 words)

	Research View \| A Publication of The University of Montana
		But what is known is that when a continent splits into two pieces an ocean forms between the broken- off pieces, mountains form in the wake of the split and sediments left in the ocean start to build up to create more of the Earth’s crust.
		The idea that Siberia may have once been connected to the United States developed in Sears’ head while he was working on his doctoral degree at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.
		Putting the two together, and with the knowledge that Siberia’s mate — what formed when it broke apart from another land mass — was unknown, he started to develop his theory.
	www.umt.edu /urelations/rview/winter05/siberian.htm (1148 words)

	Arctic Studies Center
		ortheastern Siberia and Alaska - the rugged and remote lands that rim the North Pacific - were among the last regions on earth to be described by Western explorers and cartographers, or to be coveted in the courts of Europe and Russia.
		Yet this vast northern wilderness of mountains, forests, tundra and ice, geographically linking the continents of Eurasia and North America, was in no sense an uninviting wasteland.
		Human populations began moving into Northeastern Siberia over 16,000 years ago from the more temperate regions of eastern Asia, spreading north and east with the passing of the last Ice Age until they crossed into the Americas via Alaska.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads (349 words)

	Siberia
		The geologic record in north-central Siberia is clearly at variance with any mantle-plume model, as the thermal anomaly associated with the existence of anomously hot, plume-related material in the upper mantle requires regional uplift (for reviews of such models see, for example, Anderson et al.
		Considering the ongoing disruption and strike-slip faulting involved in the evolution of the Altaids, the episodic kimberlitic activity which so clearly relates to the Anabar shield can be readily understood as representing small melt fractions released from deep beneath the craton through minor, lithospheric, stress fractures.
		This, the last act of Altaid evolution during the Paleozoic, was associated with numerous extensions peripheral to the Siberian craton.
	www.mantleplumes.org /Siberia.html (5884 words)

	Tulane University Magazine
		But for all the progress of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, Ekaterinburg is still best known as the site of the brutal murder of Nicholas II and his family in July 1918.
		Tiumen is now flush with oil money, but it has managed to preserve much of the distinctive wooden architecture of its historic center, and a number of churches are being rebuilt.
		From its perch on high bluffs overlooking the mighty Irtysh River, the Tobolsk Kremlin (fortress) with its ensemble of churches and towers is one of the most impressive sights in Siberia.
	www2.tulane.edu /feature_siberia_2.cfm (1064 words)

	How the East Was Won - New York Times
		THE CONQUEST OF A CONTINENT Siberia and the Russians.
		THE Russian conquest of Siberia, rather like the American conquest of the West, was a formative moment in the making of a nation.
		In "The Conquest of a Continent," W. Bruce Lincoln tells the story of Siberia's subjugation through several hundred years, beginning at the end of the 16th century, very well.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2DC1E3EF935A25752C0A962958260 (773 words)

	SIBERIA MAPPING
		Before 1917 all territories extending from the Ural Moun-tains to the Pacific were called as Siberia in official documents and scientific literature.
		Novgorod dwellers knew northern part of western Siberia as the Yugor land as far back as the 11th cen-tury.
		Apparently, Russian geo-graphical discoveries and investigations of Siberia and Far East in the 17th and 18th centuries made a significant contribution in the world science.
	www.nlr.ru /exib/siberia/sib01.htm (467 words)

	Siberia (continent)
		~ Carboniferous, Siberia collided with the minor continent of Kazakstania.
		~ Permian, Siberia and Kazakstania collided with Baltica, thus completing the formation of the supercontinent Pangaea.
		~ Eocene, The minor continent of India collided into Asia, generating the Himalaya.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Siberia_(continent) (262 words)

	Siberia (continent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		~2.5 billion years ago Siberia was part of a continent of Arctica, along with the Canadian shield
		~Carboniferous, Siberia collided with the minor continent of Kazakhstania.
		~250 million years future, Siberia, now in the subtropical region was part of the major supercontinent of Pangaea Ultima.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siberia_(continent) (275 words)

	Mesozoic subducted slabs under Siberia
		Late Jurassic subduction of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean is shown as occurring under the southeastern and northeastern (Verkhoyansk) margins of Siberia.
		The overall amplitude and spatial characteristics of the high P-wave velocity anomalies in the deep mantle under Siberia are comparable to those observed around the Pacific and under the Mediterranean-Himalaya-Indonesian belt and warrant a similar interpretation: as remnants of subducted slabs.
		We argue that the high-velocity structures under Siberia are logically interpreted as remnants of oceanic lithosphere that subducted before the Early Cretaceous and that, therefore, subducted lithosphere of Jurassic age can still be recognized after penetration into the lower mantle even after subduction stopped some 150 Myr ago.
	cas.bellarmine.edu /tietjen/images/mesozoic_subducted_slabs_under_s.htm (2399 words)

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