Airag
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Airag may refer to
  • Airag, also spelled ayrag, the Mongolian word for fermented horse milk; see kumis
    Kumis
    Kumis, also spelled kumiss or koumiss in English is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from mare's milk. The drink remains important to the peoples of the Central Asian steppes, of Turkic and Mongol origin: Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Yakuts, Mongols and Kalmyks...

    , the name under which it is more widely known throughout Central Asia. It is an alcoholic spirit that people drank in the Khan era.
  • Airag, Dornogovi
    Airag, Dornogovi
    Airag is a sum and town of Dornogovi Province in southeastern Mongolia. Airag sum center is a fluorspar mining settlement, the primary fluorspar mining and processing enterprises are at Bor-Öndör city . The railway station connecting Bor-Öndör via Airag to Ulan Bator and Beijing is at the sum...

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    a sum (district) in Dornogovi Province, Mongolia
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