Many bicycle path networks can be found in countries such as Denmark or Netherlands, which has had a national system of cycle routes since 1993. These networks may use routes dedicated exclusively to cycle traffic or minor rural roads whose use is otherwise restricted to local motor traffic and agricultural machinery. A safe way to go on a bicycle is when you have a bicycle path. These are made in places where bicycle safety is given consideration, so you do not have to cycle in busy traffic on dangerous roads
The Dutch word "Fietspad" means Bicycle Path in English. In the Netherlands you can go on the bicycle path to the shops, housing, stations, schools, and workplaces.
The more sensible approach is based on efforts to increase Utility cycling. In countries like Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany the high levels of utility cycling also includes shopping trips e.g. 9% of all shopping trips in Germany are by bicycle.
Utility cycling
Utility cycling encompasses any cycling done simply as a means of transport rather than as a sport or leisure activity. It is the original and most common type of cycling in the world.
Utility or "transport" cycling generally involves travelling short and medium distances (several kilometres, not uncommonly 3–15 kilometers one way, or somewhat longer), often in an urban environment. It includes commuting for example going to work, school or university, going shopping and running errands, as well as heading out to see friends and family or for other social activities.
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The municipality had about 32,000 people in 2017.<br>
The village had about 24,000 people in 2012.
Zevenaar received city rights in 1487.
The municipality borders Germany, and the Rhine River enters the Netherlands near the hamlet of Spijk.
Since 2018, Rijnwaarden became a part of the municipality of Zevenaar.
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Badakhshan
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The majority of the people in this area are the Pamiris and Tajiks.
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Herman's motion design career includes many national television campaigns and rebrands including work from NBC, ABC, FOX Sports, and NFL Network. In 2014 Greg worked as VFX editor and motion designer on Marvel's Captain America : The Winter Solder. In 2015, Herman was one of the select motion design professionals showcased and interviewed in the Focal Press book "Design for Motion: Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design" written by Austin Shaw. As a writer and director of narrative content, Greg has produced, written, directed, designed and edited several short movies, most notably the award winning Last Hit, and The Straight and Narrow Greg's debut feature movie was produced in 2017 by his own production company, AGN&S Wolf, from a script he wrote, and directed. The movie is titled Little Lamb and comes out in 2018.
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Kyrgyz people
The Kyrgyz people are a Turkic ethnic people living in Central Asia and China. Kyrgyzstan is their home country. Most of them are Sunni Muslims.
It comes from the Turkic word "kyrk" which means "forty". "Kyrgyz" means "a collection of forty tribes".
It also means "imperishable", "inextinguishable" and "immortal".
The hero Manas unified 40 tribes against the Khitans. The History of Yuan (written 1370) says there were 40 women born on a steppe.
Their name is also spelt Kirgiz (in China). In Kyrgyz, it is Кыргыз / قىرعىز.
They come from Southern Siberia since at least 201 BC. They descend from the Yenisei Kyrgyz. The Yenisei Kyrgyz lived in the upper Yenisey River valley, central Siberia. The earliest Kyrgyz were also related to the Sakas (Scythians), Wusun, Dingling, Mongols and Xiongnu.
They first appear in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" (109 - 91 BC, Han dynasty, China). They were called "Gekun" (, ) or "Jiankun" ().
During the 2nd century the Yenisei Kyrgyz were part of the Xiongnu (Huns), Tiele, Rouran, and Xianbei. Later between the 5 - 10 c, the Yenisei Kyrgyz were part of the Göktürk and Uyghur Khaganates.
In 840, the Kyrgyz allied with the Tang dynasty to defeat the Uyghur Khaganate (Mongolia). The Kyrgyz qaghan (king) killed the Uyghur qaghan and rescued Princess Taihe. They moved to Jeti-su and spread south to the Tian Shan mountains and Xinjiang. The Kyrgyz then lived peacefully around Central Asia and Xinjiang, as vassals to the Tang.
The "Tanghuiyao" (8–10 c) called them "Tsze-gu" (Kirgut) and "Xiajiasi". According to Tang records Xiajia could mean "yellow head and red face". That's what the Uyghurs called the Kyrgyz. Their tamga (tribe symbol) is identical to the modern day Kyrgyz tamga.
In the 10 - 12 c, the Kara-Khanid and then Western Liao invaded the area. In the 13th century the Mongol Empire unified everybody. Genghis Khan's first son Jochi occupied Kyrgyzstan.
They were part of the Chagatai Khanate and ruled by other Turkic people. In 1685 the Oirat (Dzungar, Mongolic) ruled them.
Russia then took over, Modern Kyrgyzstan declared independence in 1991.
By the 16th century they lived in Siberia, Xinjiang, Tian Shan, Pamir-Alay, Middle Asia, Urals, Kazakhstan, etc. In China, the term Kyrgyz also refers to the oldest Turkic tribes that lived there (the Tiele and Yeniseian Kyrgyz).
Genetic shows that Kyrgyz have mostly East Eurasian. In Tajikstan, East Eurasian ancestry is one half to two-thirds.
During the Tang Dynasty, they were described with "red hair and green eyes", while those with dark hair and dark eyes descended from the Chinese.
The Kyrgyz were fair-skinned, green- or blue-eyed and red-haired people with East Asian features.
Nowadays Kyrgyz are mostly Muslims of the Hanafi Sunni school.
But they were originally shamanist. Arab traders travelled along the Silk Road and arrived by the 8th century. But the Kyrgyz were not immediately converted. The Persian text "Hudud al-'alam", said that the Kyrgyz "venerate the Fire and burn the dead".
Islam spread during the Mongol empire and following Chagatai Khanate.