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Crimea - Wikipedia  The Crimean Peninsula also known simply as Crimea is a major land mass on the northern ... Sevastopol remained the location of the Russian Black Sea Fleet ... i.e., "the Cliffs", a port on Lake Maeotis (Sea of Azov) cited by Herodotus in The .... Crimea is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea and on the western...
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Crimean Mountains - Wikipedia  The Crimean Mountains is a range of mountains running parallel to the south-east coast of Crimea, between about 813 kilometer (58 miles) from the sea. Toward the west, the mountains drop steeply to the Black Sea, and to the ... Archaeologists have found the earliest anatomically modern humans in Europe in the...
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Crimean Mountains - Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine  Image - The Crimean Mountains landscape near Yalta. ... slope of the mountains and the Black Sea lies a hilly coastal strip, the Crimean southern shore. ... Both ranges are dissected by latitudinal passes, often in the form of canyons. ... The following vegetation belts are found on the northern slopes: (1) in the foothills, the...
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Free Flashcards about MOUNTAINS - StudyStack  ... WHAT'S CALLED THE MID-ATANTIC THIS IS USUALLLY ONLY VISIBLE WHEN ... ABRUZZO NATIONAL PARK IS IN THIS MOUNTAIN RANGE THAT FORMS THE BACKBONE OF PENINSULAR ITALY. ... THE CRIMEAN MOUNTAINS CONTAIN PROMINENT CLIFFS FOUND ON THE NORTHERN COAST OF THIS SEA.
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Black Sea | sea, Eurasia | Britannica.com  The coastline of the Black Sea is only mildly indented, except for the northwestern and ... The mountains of southern Crimea form the only precipitous cliff areas. .... A steppe climate, with cold winters and hot, dry summers, is found in the .... The Greek historian Herodotus described the northern coasts of the sea in the 5th...
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History of Crimea - Wikipedia  The recorded history of the Crimean Peninsula, historically known as Tauris or Tauric .... The Greeks, who eventually established colonies in Crimea during the Archaic Period, ... The city was eventually destroyed in the mid-3rd century AD by the Goths. ..... This new situation led to tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
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Ural Mountains | mountains, Eurasia | Britannica.com  Feb 23, 2016 ... Mountain range forming a rugged spine in west-central Russia and the ... arrowhead-shaped southern extension in northwestern Kazakhstan that ..... They extend from the Kara Sea in the north to the Ural River in the south.
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Rhodope Mountains - Wikipedia  The Rhodopes are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, .... regional unit in the northern part of the country is named after the region. ... of Frakto, near the Greek-Bulgarian border.
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Soviet Union - Sheppard Software  The coastline length is 45,389 km. ... The Beaufort Sea is a large body of water north of The Northwest Territories, the ... It drains a large portion of the northern areas of Ontario, Quebec and ... A smaller offshoot of the bay, James Bay, lies to the south. ... Along the Pacific Ocean's irregular margins lie many seas, the largest of...
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Asia - 8 | Britannica.com  Results 601 - 700 of 800 ... In its western highlands, along the Red Sea, lies the Hejaz, which. ... Shyok River river of the Kashmir region, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. It rises in the ... Sinai Peninsula triangular peninsula linking Africa with Asia and occupying an area of 23,500 square miles (61,000 square km).
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Sinai Peninsula - Wikipedia  The Sinai Peninsula or simply Sinai is a peninsula in Egypt, situated between the ... Other larger settlements include Sharm el-Sheikh and El-Tor, on the southern coast. Inland Sinai is arid, mountainous and sparsely populated, the largest settlements being Saint Catherine and Nekhel. ..... Ab Lahab  Zayd ibn Harithah.
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Soviet Union - Sheppard Software  Black Sea Mediterranean Sea Persian Gulf Gulf of Oman Arabian Sea Gulf of Aden ... 60 50 40 30 Tropic of Cancer 0 0 300 Km 300 Miles Body of Water Information ... as the Sindhu river, is the only considerable river flowing directly into this sea. ... with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq.
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Crimean War 1853-1856 : Crimea  The Crimean War took place from October 1853 to February 1856. It was a ... The Crimean War was fought mostly in the Crimean Peninsula. ... policy, Napoleon III sent his most technological advanced ship, the Charlemagne, to the Black Sea.
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Crimea - Wikipedia  The Crimean Peninsula also known simply as Crimea is a major land mass on the northern coast of the Black Sea that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. The peninsula is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson and west .... Crimea became part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in...
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Why is the Strait of Gibraltar also called Pillars of Hercules | Pillars of ...  The northern Pillar is the Rock of Gibraltar (part of the British overseas ... The mountains on either side of the strait are called the Pillars of Hercules ... in Antiquity to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. ... also called Pillars of Hercules, two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Argentina: Land of fire and ice - Telegraph - The Telegraph  Mar 14, 2001 ... It is in Tierra del Fuego that the Andes mountains finally plunge into a ... The place is desolate but exhilarating: only a handful of sparsely inhabited islands and the immense icy bulk of Antarctica lie ... The shortage of flat land around the bay means that the city's tin and ... Ushuaia is very cold year round.
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Yalta - Wikipedia  Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. ... In the 19th century, the town became a fashionable resort for the Russian ... the Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" powers - the Soviet Union, the ... There are several beaches to the east and west of the embankment.
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Geography of Cyprus - Wikipedia  Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third largest island ... Highest point, Mount Olympus ... The island is dominated by two mountain ranges, the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia ... on the Turkish mainland, the outlines of which are visible from northern Cyprus. Coastal ..... Languages.
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Arctic lands  Northern Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada ...  At the center is the large, deep, Arctic Ocean. ... Situated off mainland Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula across the Vilkitsky Strait. .... Spitsbergen was the northern front of the Cold War, and relations between the Russians and Norwegians on the island were chilly. Official ..... Shishmaref is just one example but it's not the only one.
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Free Flashcards about SEAS OF THE WORLD - StudyStack  SEA NORTH OF BLACK SEA & CRIMEAN PENINSULA, SEA OF AZOV ... THE RESORT OF PARNU, ESTONIA HAS BEEN CALLED THE "PEARL OF" THIS SEA, ... THE KERCH STRAIT CONNECTS THIS SEA WITH A LARGE BAY TO THE...
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World_Geography_Printer_Notes_@ias100.pdf - Scribd  In the far north of Asia, the land is permanently frozen which is known as "Permafrost" .... The northern range of the Himalayas average 7,000 m in height. .... The Afro Asiatic family of language and the Arabic language dominates in Saharan Africa. ...... The region "Djezira-el-Maghreb" or "Isle of West" is in recognition of Atlas...