Search results for "Far East" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
