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- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically from Russia and Asia's northeastern tip, with a length of 1,250 km and ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
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- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically from Russia and Asia's northeastern tip, with a length of 1,250 km and ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is a North American peninsula, politically a part of the nation of Mexico. Extending ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- longest period of history on the Korean Peninsula from as early as 40,000 ... compose the Yeoncheon System. The Korean Peninsula had an active geological ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean Peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium C.E.. The Three Kingdoms period in Korea ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Liaoning, south Manchuria and northern Korean Peninsula. ... existed in central and southern Korean Peninsula, all established around ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- Ontario it stretches along the Niagara Peninsula hugging close to the Lake ... of the escarpment from Queenston (Niagara Peninsula) to Tobermory (Bruce Peninsula). ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- In 1488, navigator Bartholomew Dias named the Peninsula "Cabo ... station in the vicinity of the Cape Peninsula. Just prior to the formation ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- found in arid regions of the Sinai peninsula and in the south of Israel ... all lie at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula, but the peninsula's ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately 37° North, 127° 30 East, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- to civilian lives throughout the Korean Peninsula, ultimately resulting in ... test as a unified nation on the Korean Peninsula. Standing at the twilight ...9 KB (1,252 words) - 19:58, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian ... The Gulf of Aqaba is one of two gulfs created by the Sinai Peninsula ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- Rivers, ruling over northern Korean Peninsula and southern Manchuria ... of the Yangtze River, and the Korean Peninsula. Gojoseon eventually consolidated ...18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
- The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kallipolis ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- Olympic National Park, on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, was originally created as the Olympic National Monument in 1909. It attained ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- on the southeastern part of the Korean peninsula around 50 B.C.E. and continued ... wake of Silla's unification of the peninsula following its defeats of ...11 KB (1,743 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian Peninsula. This had profound consequences ... him at his Vila do Infante on the Sagres Peninsula a school of navigators ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- China also ceded the Liaodong peninsula, Taiwan, and the Pescadores ... Later, when Japan was forced to recede the Liaodong peninsula to Russia ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- southern and northern parts of the Korean Peninsula, respectively. American ... a general election over the whole Korean peninsula under the supervision of ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 04:44, 31 July 2022
- of influence not limited to the Korean Peninsula alone. Baekje forces under ... over its longtime rival Baekje on the Korean peninsula. ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. Covering ... The 1898-99, gold rush to the Seward Peninsula brought prospectors ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- It refers not only to the geographical peninsula of modern Greece, but also ... B.C.E. and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- in the north east of China and the Korean Peninsula between the fifth and seventh ... his leverage over Chinese in the Korean peninsula. Whether the titles had ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- William Prescott led 1,500 men onto the peninsula. At first, Putnam, Prescott ... 039;s forces to the eastern corner of the peninsula, known as Moulton's ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Resembling in shape a figurehead on a ship's prow, the Sultanate of Oman juts sharply from the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, played a major role in developing Korea's cultural tradition. ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula. The series of battles ... ==Start of the Peninsula Campaign== The Peninsula Campaign was the ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- major port is Punta Arenas on the Brunswick Peninsula. The first European ... islands, and on the north by Brunswick Peninsula, Riesco Island, Muñoz ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- Ocean, situated between the Kamchatka Peninsula to the east, the Kuril ... of far eastern Russia, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Sakhalin Islands, ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- a major role in reclaiming the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors and defended ... At the end of the eleventh century, the Iberian Peninsula political ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- out to sea in the form of the Shandong Peninsula. Shandong borders the Bohai ... on the southern edge of the Shandong peninsula, and proceeded to Qingzhou ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- of the bay lies east and northeast of the Bruce Peninsula, south of Killarney and north of Collingwood. The North Channel of Georgian Bay extends further ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 20:21, 13 December 2023
- Koryo kingdom) ruled the Korean peninsula from 935 to 1392. The Western ... dynasty, which had dominated the Korean peninsula since the Mongol invasions ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 09:05, 20 December 2022
- in the southern part of the Korean peninsula. Gyeongju, Choe's ... shifted to the northern part of the peninsula during the Goreoyo dynasty ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bound to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- as early as 1552, the territory—a small peninsula and some islands—was ... granted a perpetual lease on the Kowloon Peninsula under the 1860 Convention ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- streams that flowed into the Korean peninsula at the time. He was the ... dominant stream of doctrinal thought on the Korean peninsula. ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- and military authority over the whole peninsula. However, when he came ... bribed by the Lombards to retire from the peninsula. The distress of the Italians ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 11:39, 13 February 2022
- in the United Nations supervised peninsula-wide democratic elections ... on Korea's fate. Many Koreans on the peninsula had made their own plans ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- also nearby. A portion of Schoodic Peninsula on the mainland of Maine ... enlarged to include parts of the Schoodic Peninsula. At the request of the ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- The term has also been used to refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula ... Geographically, the Scandinavian Peninsula includes what is today ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is a peninsula jutting out from the African ... has been in contact with the Arabian peninsula and Southeast Asia, and ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- Silla to rule most of the southern peninsula by 676. Silla then fought ... the southern region of the Korean peninsula, leaving the northern region ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- that together occupied most of the Korean peninsula and extended north into ... the three powerful kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria. Later in ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Adriatic and deeper inland in the Balkan Peninsula and merokarst, imperfectly ... located at the sothernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula. ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- Anadyr on the south shore of the Chukchi Peninsula of Siberia and in Bristol ... to the northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and along the southern ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Stalin) convened at Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula. It was the second of the ... The conference was held in Yalta, a resort town on the Crimean peninsula ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ... At the end of World War II, the Korean Peninsula, which up to that ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, situated between the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- also included portions of the Sinai Peninsula. The land of Midian was ... Jordan, southern Israel, and the Egyptian Sinai peninsula. ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- herding, traveling great distances over the Kanin peninsula. Those who remained in Europe came under Russian control around 1200 C.E., while those ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- resulting in relations on the divided peninsula warming somewhat since ... * Mistry, Hemlata. Sunshine on the Korean Peninsula an analysis of ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, currently ... Archaeological evidence that people lived on the Korean Peninsula ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- |Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. |- |Cerastes ... of reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. Journal of ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- allowed to lease from China the Liaodong Peninsula (containing Port Arthur ... to grant Japan the lease of the Liaodong Peninsula along with economic rights ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- Though land-linked, the habitable peninsula of Mount Athos is accessible ... in the Aegean Sea and became the Athonite Peninsula. According to another version ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 17:04, 10 November 2022
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- between Vancouver Island, the Olympic Peninsula and the continental mainland ... Island, British Columbia, and the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, to Haro Strait ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- end 780 years of Muslim control in the Spanish peninsula. ... eight year campaign, most of the Iberian Peninsula was brought under Islamic ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- In the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, he gained further promotion following his performance at the Battle of Williamsburg, where he pushed back ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- ===Southeastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula=== Commonly the definition of Eastern Europe is expanded to include the following previously Communist/Socialist ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- in 918, eventually unified the entire Korean Peninsula. The Silla kingdom, which had ruled most of the peninsula since the seventh century, fell ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Six Day War and conquest of the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, was ... early on in regaining parts of the Sinai Peninsula, which had been conquered ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Krai, and the northern part of the Korean peninsula. The Khitans defeated Balhae ... Manchuria, while Silla unified the Korean Peninsula south of the Taedong River ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- early 1380s by pushing Mongol remnants off the peninsula and also by repelling well-organized Japanese pirates in a series of successful engagements ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- came to predominate in the Korean peninsula, and provided ideological ... They were unsuccessful in leaving the peninsula, and could go no further ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 11:28, 18 April 2023
- on December 7, 1941, they attacked the Malay Peninsula. Japan completely conquered the Malay Peninsula by the end of January 1942, poised to launch ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- revival of scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula that also produced thinkers ... revival of scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula that also produced thinkers ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- obstacles from North Korea, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization ... on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, committing both Koreas ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- and has spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula. A 984-foot (300-meter ... The city has grown along the peninsula to form five main districts ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- and the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, along with Baekje and Silla, for nearly seven centuries ...29 KB (4,387 words) - 08:36, 19 December 2022
- Cape Frederick Hendrick on the Forestier Peninsula. An attempt at landing ... **the Tasman Peninsula **the Tasman Bridge **the Tasman Highway ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- the neck of land extending to the peninsula the city stood on. This ... under General Howe seized the Charlestown peninsula at the Battle of Bunker ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- the forts in Sri Lanka, sits on a small peninsula, belonging to the sea as ... that, at the southernmost point of the peninsula, a small Moorish community ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, Africa's westernmost point. It is Senegal's political, ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- thumb|left|250 px|Inuksuit at the Foxe Peninsula (Baffin Island), Canada]] ... at Inuksualait (Enukso Point), at Foxe Peninsula on Baffin Island. The site ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 11:05, 6 March 2024
- The myth represents dragons as the founders of the peninsula empire, which intervened to save the region, on the behest of the gods, from invading Chinese ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
- in the world located on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of an inaccessible ... if Sinai was to be sited on the Sinai Peninsula at all. ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- The Korean peninsula has been inhabited since Lower Paleolithic times ... unified state to cover most of Korean peninsula by 668 C.E., beginning ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- Michigan is the only bi-peninsular state. The Lower Peninsula of Michigan ... land boundary with Wisconsin in the Upper Peninsula, that is principally demarcated ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- in only two areas of the Fennoscandia peninsula of Northern Europe, in ... of Eurasia, including the Fennoscandia peninsula of Northern Europe. ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- Cape Town is located at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, about ... The peninsula consists of a dramatic mountainous spine jutting southward ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- use Greek troops to invade the Gallipoli peninsula was vetoed by Russia as ... 000 men. At Bulair, near the neck of the peninsula, were the Turkish 5th and ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- |caption_lake = Lake Huron Shoreline in the Bruce Peninsula Shari Chambers ... projects. Near the tip of the Bruce Peninsula, Fathom Five, Canada's ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- that barley has been grown in the Korean Peninsula since the Early Mumun Pottery ... Lee. Agricultural origins in the Korean Peninsula. Antiquity 77(295) (2003 ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- In the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, a region called the Empty ... *Oxwich Dunes, near Swansea on the Gower peninsula in Wales. ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- freed slaves landed on the Sierra Leone peninsula and founded Freetown. Freetown ... The city of Freetown is located on the rocky Sierra Leone Peninsula ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- located on the central east coast of the peninsula on a sweeping, if shallow ... respectively) swept through the Arabian Peninsula and camped on the coasts ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- With the fall of the Goryeo (Koryo) Dynasty on the Korean peninsula ... and monasticism. Because the Korean peninsula was always in crisis, Koreans ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- the Alutiiq (or Suqpiaq) of the Alaska Peninsula and coastal and island ... as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They are part of Queensland, a constituent state of the Commonwealth ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- political power moved north on the Korean peninsula. During the Yi Dynasty ... China and then Korea. Since the Korean Peninsula contains an abundance of ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- zone in the Cold War. The northern half of the peninsula was supported by the Soviet Union, the southern half by the United States. Leaders of both ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- in the exploration of the Peloponnesus peninsula. After Müller's death in 1840 he returned to Germany. In 1844, he became a professor at ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
