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and Stalin) convened at Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula. It was the second ... The conference was held in Yalta, a resort town on the Crimean peninsula ...

The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...

The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kalli ... "Beautiful City." Today the peninsula is part of the Turkish ...

and Georgia to the east. The Crimean Peninsula juts into the Black ... The Crimean Peninsula juts into the Black Sea from the north. To its ...

Crimea, which was annexed in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration ... those groups, except the Volga Tatars and Crimean Tatars adopted their own ...

caused the family to move to the Crimean Peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in 1855. While there he became chief science master ...

Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of the Blue Horde. Batu was a son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan. His ...

of the present-day Maritimes and Gaspé Peninsula, passed from French to ... and infrequent sea and land patrols. The peninsula was dominated by Acadian ...

succeeded in landing in the Iberian peninsula, he may have been cut off ... southern portions of the Black Sea and the Crimean Khanate possessed the northern ...

Arctic Circle separating the Scandinavian Peninsula from continental Europe. ... In the south, the Bay of Gdańsk lies east of the Hel peninsula on ...

1711 and 1774 and the Peloponnesus peninsula in 1718, the following ... the twentieth century. As a result of the Crimean campaigns (1687 and 1688 ...

Pushkin) in the Khan Palace in Bakhchisaray, Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine. *The fountains of Caserta Palace in southern Italy *The fountains of ...

McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 ended in failure, retreating ... observer of the European armies in the Crimean War in 1855. Here he experienced ...

to fight on the winning side in the Crimean War realigned France’s ... ====The Crimean War==== Napoleon's challenge to Russia's ...

at Mount Hoverla. Roman-Kosh in the Crimean peninsula reaches 5061 feet ... There are also a small number of Muslims, mostly on the Crimean Peninsula ...

Subutai (Subetei, Subetai, Sübeedei; Classic Mongolian: Sübügätäi or Sübü'ätäi; 1176–1248) also known as Subetai the Valiant ...

unified different states of the Italian peninsula into the single nation ... sentiment growing on the Italian peninsula, as well as in the other ...

in Crimea as late as the 16th century: the Crimean Gothic language. ... and over nearly the whole of the Iberian peninsula. Theodoric also attempted ...

recognized language alongside with Crimean Tatar, but in reality, is ... in the Pomor trade in Finnmark and the Kola Peninsula. * Runglish, ...

A treaty for the pacification of the Peninsula was signed in London on ... policy during the events precipitating the Crimean War. One of his biographers ...

would not authorize privateers during the Crimean War, and it signed the Declaration ... army. Their renewed attack on the Niagara peninsula quickly captured Fort Erie ...

that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and the ... The Anatolian peninsula (also called Asia Minor), comprising most ...

situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. Modern Greece ... end of the Balkans, the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland ...

off the Senegalese coast, but Cap Vert is a peninsula near Senegal ... as dengue fever, malaria, yellow fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever ...

and in power—both in the Italian peninsula (as a result of the Austro ... strains of the 1848 Revolution and of the Crimean War. From 1854 to ...

off Russia's Baltic ports during the Crimean War and Prussia's coasts ... trench, which reaches from the Stad peninsula in Sogn og Fjordane to ...

process of besieging Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. Delays in ending the siege pushed back the start date for Blau several times, and the city ...

a conflict fought primarily in the Crimean peninsula. Since playing a major ... invaded the neighboring country’s Crimean peninsula, contributing to the ...

humans from the west of the Iberian Peninsula. The remains, a largely ... as modern-day Croatia and the Iberian and Crimean peninsulas. The last known ...

with the French invasion of the Italian peninsula in 1494-1995 that the new ... The Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) during the Crimean War and the ...

Imperial Russia was distracted by the Crimean War (1853–1856). The Caucasian ... Mediterranean Sea by capturing the Balkan Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire ...

Chersonese (now known as the Gallipoli Peninsula), an Athenian general named ... among scholars that Cleoboule was a Crimean and not an Athenian citizen ...

acquired through his successes in the Crimean War and the War of Italy. ... their defenses around the southern peninsula of Hakodate, with the new ...

(Caffa), a great trade emporium on the Crimean peninsula, came under siege by an army of Mongol warriors under the command of Janibeg, backed ...

include the highest peak of the Balkan Peninsula, Musala, at 9,596 feet ... Empire, expanding Great Bulgaria on the Balkan Peninsula. ...

in the northeastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula, the country is halfway ... in 1453. By 1541, the entire Balkan Peninsula and most of Hungary became ...

nothing more than a catchall term for the peninsula south of the Himalayas. ... Empire, after having taken part in the Crimean War (1854–1856) and invading ...

in Poland (1806–07), the Iberian Peninsula, western Germany, and his ... France's sphere included the Iberian Peninsula and a share of influence ...

with Austria (dating back to the Crimean War), and a centuries-old ... port of Qingdao in the Chinese Shandong peninsula. Within a few months, the ...

a commander of the French army in the Crimean War and in Mexico; and Prince ... Brittany, 10 miles south of the Quiberon peninsula. She purchased a ruined ...