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  • The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...
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  • Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... famous dye Tyrian purple. The dye was used in ancient textile trade, and ...
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  • Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...
    31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
  • city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. human habitation more than 7,000 years ago. In the modern era, Spanish settlement ...
    29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
  • as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ...
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  • is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...
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  • The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island ... Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world ...
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  • [[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...
    40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
  • Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Memphis and its Necropolis ...
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  • ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...
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  • #039;ing) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...
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  • Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...
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  • Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond ...
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  • Parrot is the common name for any of the tropical and subtropical ... There are roughly 350 species in 85 genera making up the order. These ...
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  • , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands ... ), which is currently regarded as the earliest recorded civilization ...
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  • Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...
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  • London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...
    41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
  • Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...
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  • Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... The decision to undertake a cross-channel invasion in 1944 was taken ...
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