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14-AUG-2008

Gers

A ger is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in Mongolia and the steppes of Central Asia
and western China (Xinjiang province with the Uighur people).

In other parts of Central Asia and Russia it is called yurt.
The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word meaning "dwelling place" in the sense of "homeland".

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