Oblast vs Kurgan - What's the difference?
oblast | kurgan |
A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
* 1979 , Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed ,
* 2002 , Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance ,
* 2010 , Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise ,
A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
* 2004 , Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture , Blackwell, 2005, p. 41
As a noun oblast
is (a region or province in some countries).As a proper noun kurgan is
city in siberia, russia, administrative centre of kurgan oblast originally called tsaryovo gorodishche (Царёво Городище - tsarjóvo gorodíšče (n)) (1662 - 1782).oblast
English
(wikipedia oblast)Noun
(en noun)page 483,
- The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast', the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 ' oblasts , 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
page 119,
- It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast' at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' ' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05 confidence level or better occurred merely by chance.
page 194,
- Almaty oblast' (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's ' oblasts , at just 22.2 percent urban.
Derived terms
* autonomous oblastSee also
* kraiAnagrams
* * ----kurgan
English
(wikipedia kurgan)Noun
(en noun)- The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans.