Steppes

Switzerland has alpine regions loftier and more imposing, Russia vaster steppes, and Norway more arctic scenery: but nowhere else in Europe do arctic and tropic so nearly meet as in Spain.

Mark Shuttleworth and two crewmates landed on schedule on the steppes of Kazakhstan, near where they blasted off 10-days ago.

In 1920, the Khasavyurt district of the Tersk region was incorporated into Dagestan, and in 1957 the plains of Kizlyar and the Nogai steppes were incorporated, after which only 57% of the area of the "mountainous country" began to account for mountainous territories