Tuwa

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A form of Tuva — A republic and federal subject of Russia, located in southern Siberia.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tuva.

    The ancestors of the reindeer breeders originate from Tuwa, which is now an autonomous constituent republic of Russia.

    2012, Frank Riedinger, Mongolia – Faces of a Nation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=0JRqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT160
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    A royal grave (dated seventh century B.C.) still shows vital details of the conditions of warrior horsemen in their formative phase. This is the grave at Arzan in Tuwa, opened under the guidance of the Nestor of Siberian archeology, M. P. Grjaznov.[…] Right: plan of the Arzan kugan in Tuwa (seventh century B.C.). Model of a city in the beyond, into which the deceased will move.

    1989 [1988], Karl Jettmar, “The art of the Steppes”, in The History of Art, Blitz Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62

    In a Japan-Russia cooperative botanical expedition in the Central Siberia in 1993, several wood samples of Betula, including small shrubs, were collected from Kudznetskiy Alatau Mts. in Khakas Republic and West Sayan Range in Tuwa Republic.

    1996, Nature and Human Activities, numbers 1-4, →OCLC, page 33, column 1

    In this film Ute Gebhardt looks at shamanistic healing rituals in Tuwa, which today is part of the Russian Federation. In Tuwa shamanism was able to survive five and a half decades of Soviet communism. Even today there is a shamanistic clinic in Tuwa’s capital Kyzyl.

    2009 December, Günter Nyul, “The Neutral in biodynamic cranio-sacral osteopathy – an extraordinary state of consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 02 Mar 2024, page 15

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