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STEPPE (from the Russ. stepi, a waste)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPPE (from the Russ. stepi, a waste)  , the name given to the level treeless plains in certain parts of the
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Russian
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Empire, and thence sometimes, though not commonly, extended, in
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physical geography, to signify similar plains elsewhere . The name is most commonly applied specifically to the plains in the south and south-east of
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European Russia and in the south-west of
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Asiatic Russia, and in this connexion the
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term sometimes connotes semi-
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desert conditions . Otherwise the Russian
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steppes may be considered as kindred to and connected with the Heiden (heaths) of
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northern Germany .

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