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  • proper noun A formerly seminomadic Siberian people who speak a Turkic language.
  • proper noun A short name for Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia.

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Examples

  • The adorable Sakha, which is Kartikeya's Vayu form proceeded towards

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Tatarstan (Kazan '), Tuva (Kyzyl), Udmurtia (Izhevsk), Yakutia - also known as Sakha (Yakutsk); 49 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast');

    The 1996 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Tatarstan (Kazan '), Tuva (Kyzyl), Udmurtia (Izhevsk), Yakutia - also known as Sakha (Yakutsk); 49 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast');

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • From Karelia on the Finnish border to Sakha in Eastern Siberia, leaders of autonomous republics began demanding new cultural and political rights, adopting their own constitutions, anthems, and flags, asserting the superiority of their laws over federal ones, even declaring themselves sovereign states.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • From Karelia on the Finnish border to Sakha in Eastern Siberia, leaders of autonomous republics began demanding new cultural and political rights, adopting their own constitutions, anthems, and flags, asserting the superiority of their laws over federal ones, even declaring themselves sovereign states.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • From Karelia on the Finnish border to Sakha in Eastern Siberia, leaders of autonomous republics began demanding new cultural and political rights, adopting their own constitutions, anthems, and flags, asserting the superiority of their laws over federal ones, even declaring themselves sovereign states.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • From Karelia on the Finnish border to Sakha in Eastern Siberia, leaders of autonomous republics began demanding new cultural and political rights, adopting their own constitutions, anthems, and flags, asserting the superiority of their laws over federal ones, even declaring themselves sovereign states.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Effects of recent climate change on permafrost landscapes in central Sakha.

    Permafrost in the Arctic 2009

  • Russian Railways is working on the rail route from Pravaya Lena, south of Yakutsk in the Sakha republic, to Uelen on the Bering Strait, a 3,500 kilometer stretch.

    The World’s Longest Tunnel | Impact Lab 2007

  • Most of this ecoregion is within the borders of the Republic of Yakutia (Sakha), situated in northeastern Siberia, between the Lena and Kolyma Rivers, with the Sea of Okhotsk as a southern border.

    Northeast Siberian taiga 2008

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