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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of Kazakhstan in the southeast part of the country near the border of Kyrgyzstan. Founded in the 1850s as a Russian fort and trading post, the city served as the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1997 and is the commercial and cultural center of the country.
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- proper noun The largest city in and former (until 1998) capital of
Kazakhstan , formerly known asAlma-Ata .
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- noun the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998
Etymologies
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Administrative divisions: 14 oblystar (singular -- oblysy) and 3 cities (qala, singular -- qalasy) *; Almaty, Almaty*, Aqmola (Astana),
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Administrative divisions: 14 oblystar (singular - oblysy) and 3 cities (qala, singular - qalasy) *; Almaty, Almaty*, Aqmola (Astana),
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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ALMATY -- Editors of the Bishkek-based stan. tv say two people used the murder of their colleague to conduct a search of their office in Almaty, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Spero News 2010
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ALMATY -- Editors of the Bishkek-based stan. tv say two people used the murder of their colleague to conduct a search of their office in Almaty, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Spero News 2010
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ALMATY: Thirty-eight people were killed on Sunday when fire ripped through a drugs treatment facility in a city outside Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty, emergency officials said.
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ALMATY -- The trial of three Kazakh opposition leaders accused of conspiracy has begun in Almaty, RFE / RL's Kazakh Service reports.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighbouring Xinjiang region of Agriculture, checks a container holding tamarisk plants and yellow-striped Diorhabdas in an
WN.com - Articles related to Hartnett And Fellow Asian Heartthrobs Charm Pusan 2009
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ALMATY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighbouring Xinjiang region of China has made public a list of names and photographs of 15 Uighurs wanted for their roles in rioting which killed almost 200 people in the
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Another acquaintance of mine in Almaty recently expressed relief that the end of the crisis was now in sight as oil prices have increased.
Global Voices in English » Kazkahstan: Public administration discussed by bloggers 2009
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Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he met with a tall, bullet-headed man he knew only as Col. Korbator.
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