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- Isthmus of Panama, facilitating trade with the Far East. ... to China, Japan, the Spice Islands, and the far greater part of the East Indies ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- But even then the Adriatic in the narrower sense only extended as ... The deepest part of the sea lies east of Monte Gargano, south of Dubrovnik ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... the region which is now known as "the Far East." ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Christianity in the Nearer and Middle East, especially to the Asiatic ... the progress of the Roman mission in the Far East, in spite of Nestorian opposition; ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India ... early 1800s. In the meantime, the British East India Company had been expanding ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- pockets of resistance continuing in the Far East until 1923. The White Army ... in 1919, but was pushed back to the far east where it continued to resist ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- Great Britain in Western Europe and as far east as China and Siberia during ... as far south as northern Africa, and as far east as Siberia and China (Gould ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- in order from the International Date Line heading east: ... one to Murmansk and the other farther east, yet west of the Ural Mountains ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- of day and night only happens at places far enough from the equator to ... Summer Time). People living farther to the east (Asia, Australia) whose local ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- that the Western perception of "the East" was fundamentally discriminatory ... (who immediately returned to the Middle East) deposited him in the Mount ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- were involved in exploring and settling as far West as Newfoundland. They ... become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- and it was treasured as a jewel in the East of the British Empire. For ... * Keay, John. Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- groups around 3000 B.C.E. and migrated east where they mixed with Turkic ... 1200 C.E., while those who lived further east intermixed with the Ugains ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- cardinal directions: black = north, blue = east, red = south, white = west ... (West), and Orda Khan, leader of the White Horde (East). ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- the gibbons, extending from Assam in North-East India, to Myanmar. Small populations ... the watercourses and H. leuconedys to the east. H. leuconedys continues east ...12 KB (1,738 words) - 16:17, 25 January 2023
- alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of the Middle East. The rivers have several small ... fore. The scarcity of water in the Middle East leaves Iraq in constant fear ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East. This expansive ... industry, is crucial to the economies of far eastern Russia, the Kamchatka ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- part of New Guinea. The islands to the east of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland were ... M. Kennedy. Germany in the Pacific and Far East, 1870-1914. St. Lucia, LC: ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- a legacy from which lessons can be learned. Far from compromising her femininity ... Some individuals have claimed that she would go so far as to resort ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 20:18, 20 January 2022
- Goguryeo emerged as one of the strongest kingdoms in the north east ... Goguryeo which maintained its capital in far-north Wandu. Adding to that ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Ch'o, who argued that Buddhists monks (far from working solely for their ... appeared in the Ullambana Sutra and it is far more relevant to Buddhism ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- 039;s second largest river, entering in the east side of Lake Tanganyika. The ... Lake Tanganyika fish can be found throughout East Africa. ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- the Joseon Dynasty and due to its location east of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung ... palace was an "outstanding example of Far Eastern palace architecture ...8 KB (1,063 words) - 01:18, 4 December 2023
- of the Crusades, when Europe and the Middle East had their first major encounters ... The bazaar first appeared in the Middle East, around the fourth century ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- roots to Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East during the late nineteenth ... ===Immigration to the Russian Far East and Siberia=== The Joseon Dynasty ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- outer borders. The Arabian Sea floor, while far below the surface, exhibits ... to accurately navigate to southern Arabia, East Africa, and a variety of Red ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- colonialism, primarily with the Dutch East India Company. Direct state ... of the Dutch empire, notably the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Suriname ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- Far Eastern thought has three major traditions: Daoism, Confucianism ... Unlike in Western philosophy, the East did not develop an abstract ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- and Middle East, title=A Bright Future For Solar Power In The Middle ... but it is so far an idealized status that at present can be only approximated ...14 KB (1,937 words) - 20:52, 8 February 2023
- Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor (Santa Barbara, Calif: ... Indravarman I (r. 877-889) and extended as far as the territories of Sipsong ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- geographically accurate term for the Middle East) while the rest of Egypt is ... that some geologists claim occurred as far back as two million years ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- important shipping routes for the Far East, and fishermen risk their ... is an important shipping route for the Far East, including the eastern terminus ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- east of Colombo and 72|km|mi north of Kandy. The largest and best-preserved ... periods (1073 to 1250), represent by far the most impressive of the ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- In 1842, Botta started excavations in Kuyunjik, a town not far from ... * Buckingham James S. 1851. The buried city of the East, Nineveh: ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Earth's seasons as seen from the north. Far right: southern solstice Earth's seasons as seen from the south. Far left: northern solstice ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- from the Pacific Ocean on its south and east. It is bounded to the north ... *The Bahía de los Ángeles is a bay located on the east side of the ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- it is named); on the west by Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the ... and from the Pacific by the 147° east meridian. The northernmost ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- north and south, and running nearly east-west between 11 and 12° South ... Zambezi. A few kilometers higher up on the east the main stream is joined ...22 KB (3,457 words) - 21:14, 31 January 2024
- coming from the mysterious regions of the Far East. "For our sins," ... would not have risen. Trade routes with the East came through the Rus lands ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- into the Russian Empire. Those on the east bank of the Volga then returned ... territories then under control by the East Mongols and hoping to re-establish ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Tiger, which have the largest populations in South East Asia. ... sits adjacent to the National Park in the east with the Bara Hunting Reserve ...12 KB (1,640 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- pro-Axis Russian government in the Russian Far East. ===Mengjiang=== ... ===White Russian Client State in Soviet Far East=== The Axis forces ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- bridge between India further to the East and the European world. Even ... disgusted his principal nobles, who went so far as to form a conspiracy against ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... Despite its natural resources, East Timor has the lowest per capita ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- in Beijing: the Temple of Sun in the east (日坛), the Temple of Earth ... on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries. ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- separating the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church. The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- West Point, U.S. and UN commander in the Far East, a leading general during ... West Point, U.S. and UN commander in the Far East, Eighth Army commander during ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East. Vasubandhu wrote a commentary to his own work, called the Abhidharma-kośa-bhāsya. In ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- last third of the fifteenth century, the East had become nearly completely ... any other rabbi since Maimonides, reaching far beyond Safed and the Middle ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
- does not realize what Japan's policy in the Far East is and what it portends for the American people. The Japanese adopted a policy that in the end ...17 KB (2,290 words) - 20:45, 31 December 2021
- von Jacobi, the Russian electrician, as far back as 1811. ... ===Submarine cable to India, Singapore, the Far East, and Australasia=== ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- of between 5,000 to 6,000 feet. Towards the east, the range loses its sharp ... the Tunjun controlled an area reaching as far east as the Atbarah River. The ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- were fought between the army of the British East India Company, which after ... the Treaty of Bassein with the British East India Company, ceding territory ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- about 600 miles (960 km) from west to east, and has a maximum width of ... 328 yards. However, the smaller dunes are far more common as the constant ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa, especially East Africa, is regarded by some geneticists ... waves of migration and dispersal they moved east (at first north of the tropical ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- Yahya's son, Ja'far ibn Yahya, was a great friend of Hārūn ... On his return shortly thereafter, he had Ja'far executed, and ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- reconciling the Monophysite churches of the East and Africa with the Council ... to solve the problem, being considered far too "Nestorian" ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- Pennsylvania, it is joined from the east by Kinzua Creek 10 miles ... somewhat, the lower river (navigable as far as East Brady, Pennsylvania ...19 KB (2,637 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- the only known routes at the time to the Far East. To search for an alternate ... around the Horn between Europe and the Far East; and trade and passenger ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- Noun' (Nul Lemta). They later spread as far as the upper Niger River region ... of that Algiers, extending his rule as far east as Oran. ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- most of Western Europe and all the way to Far East Asia. ... , Taiwan and Indonesia (Endeh, Flores, east Java, Komodo, Lomblen Islands). ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- cylinder's policy does not extend as far west as Israel, it does indicate ... Agade, Ešnunna, Zamban, Me-Turnu, Der, as far as the region of Gutium, the ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- the Strait. Talk of a rail-link between East and West resurfaced in 1986 ... —formerly the U.S. West Coast–Russian Far East Ad-Hoc Working Group—was ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- thousand years. The position is on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea. ... for ancient settlements in the Middle East and Anatolia. Jericho is the ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- at the University of Oxford, then by far the most senior position for ... Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the heartland ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- right|thumb|Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. The pinkish red ... *[https://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/russian-far-east/kamchatka Kamchatka ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- of Bengal, and the forces of the British East India Company. Siraj-ud-Daulah ... War in Europe (1756–1763). The French East India Company (La Compagnie ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- by the Earth's rotation. Similar, but far greater, vortices are seen ... the vortex circulates faster than the fluid far from the center. The speed ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 21:04, 3 May 2023
- called "hyacinth," from a word of East Indian origin. In the Middle ... The oldest minerals found so far are zircons from Jack Hills in the ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- olau in the east. In a broad plateau between them farmers raise livestock ... u on the east. Well-known features found on O ahu include Waikīkī ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- * Apure: from Venezuela through the east into the Orinoco * Arauca: from Colombia to Venezuela east into the Orinoco ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- Qi Baishi, 1st ed. (Seattle and London: Far East Fine Arts Inc, 1993), 198 ... of Xugu and Qi Baishi. San Francisco: Far East Fine Arts, in association ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- Alexandria was by far the most important of the diasporan Jewish communities ... scattered along the coast, in the Negev, east of the Jordan, and in villages ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- Deputy-Governors of the sub-province of East Bengal—and the representatives ... the Shahbag zamindari (estate) from the East India Company. Upon his death ...25 KB (3,589 words) - 18:25, 6 January 2024
- and conquered all northern Africa as far as Libya, together with Al ... of immorality. He even went so far as to assault the sister of ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- face. The range of the rook extends as far as Ireland, Finland, Russia ... and Asia to western Europe, the Middle East, and southern Asia (Grzimek ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- across the North Sea for a landing in south-east England. Once the army had ... tightly-packed defensive formation, not far from Parma's army of ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the Paris Peace Conference ... Darkness: The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921-1942 ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- on the west by the Tisia or Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now ... vulnerable to attacks from the North and East. It served as a useful buffer ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- of Solomon, extending north into Lebanon, east into the transjordan and south ... of Lo Debar in Gilead and Ashteroth Karnaim east of the Jordan. ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- enslaved Africans, and sent boats trading as far as the Malay Peninsula. ... Except for those who travel to remote Middle East locales for striking ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Estuaries are impacted by events far upstream, and concentrate ... Peoples of the Russian North, Siberia and Far East: Nivkhi] Arctic Network ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 04:23, 22 March 2024
- looked at incidences of pauperism in the East End of London showed that ... from occurring in Britain. Booth was far from tempted by the ideas ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- poems of this time is "The Ballad of East and West"—a ballad ... tickets only allowed the couple to return as far as Vermont. Kipling and his ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- |titles=Apostle to the Far East |beatified_date=October 25, 1619 ... Goa, the center Portuguese activity in the East, on May 6, 1542. He spent ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- age when Constantius II was emperor of the East, when such a rank would only ... Book 17 follows Julian’s campaigns as far East as the Danube River. 18 ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... de-Valleyfield and Lac Saint-Pierre east of Montreal. It surrounds ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- singly, independent of one another and not far from some village church, ... witnessed the erection of monasteries far exceeding anything that had ...20 KB (3,204 words) - 14:14, 7 May 2024
- Daha also referred to a dasyu tribe in Margiana. Dahistan (east of ... and those situated more towards the east Massagetae and Sacae." ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 20:43, 19 May 2020
- In both East and West, numerous iconic types of Christ, Mary and saints ... Secular painting became far more common from the Renaissance on, developing ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- Morley was born in Norwich, in East Anglia, the son of a brewer. Most ... that composers had become too literal and far too indiscriminate in their ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- In 1792, the British East India Company established the Madras Observatory ... time zones, with Calcutta using the 90th east meridian and Bombay the 75° ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 18:36, 4 March 2024
- In the ancient Middle East, natural asphalt deposits were used for ... In the ancient Far East, natural asphalt was slowly boiled to get ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- | east || south || center / zenith || west ||north |- ! Planet ... | east || south || center || west || north |- ! The Chinese Five-note Scale ...19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
- relations, dominated by China, prevailed in East Asia until the weakening of ... dominated by China, that prevailed in East Asia until the weakening of ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ... However, the creation of the Wall was a propaganda disaster for East ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- Distant Sun (Strange but True: the Sun is far away on the 4th of July)] ... in the Northern Hemisphere, including East Asian and Irish cultures. ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Central America. The 36 ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- to Rio Grande do Sul state, and inland as far as Paraguay and northern Argentina ... to the northeast and the Cerrado savannas to the east. * Montane moist ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
