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Mariy-El (republic) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 56 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 56.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 048 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 48.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: An area of level, swampy plains extending north from the left bank of the Volga. It was conquered by Ivan IV the Terrible and colonized by Mari peoples in the 16th century. The economy is based on manufacture of machinery, lumbering, and agriculture. |
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| Mariy-El (preferred,C,V)
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| Mariy-El, Respublika (C,V,Russian (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Respublika Mariy-El (C,V)
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| Marij Èl, Respublika (C,V)
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| Mari El-provisional (C,V)
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| Mari-El (C,V)
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| Mari (H,O)
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| Marijskaja Avtonomnaja Sovetskaja (H,O)
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............ | 1936-1990 |
| Mariyskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika (H,O)
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............ | 1936-1990 |
| Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (H,O)
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............ | 1936-1990 |
| Mari ASSR (H,O)
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............ | 1936-1990 |
| Mari A. S. S. R. (H,O)
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............ | 1936-1990 |
| Mariyskaya ASSR (H,O)
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............ | 1936-1990 |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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| republic (preferred, C) |
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first established as autonomous oblast 1920 & made a republic 1936 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.......... |
[VP] |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 838-839 |
| Marijskaja Avtonomnaja Sovetskaja.......... |
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Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-107 |
| Mariyskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika.......... |
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NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 27 September 2007 |
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