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2 dni temu · Middle East, the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing at least the Arabian Peninsula and, by some definitions, Iran, North Africa, and sometimes beyond. Learn more about the history of the classification of the region in this article.
- Near East
Near East, usually the lands around the eastern shores of...
- United Arab Emirates
The largest of these emirates, Abu Dhabi (Abū Ẓaby), which...
- Kuwait
Kuwait is largely a desert, except for Al-Jahrāʾ oasis, at...
- Arabia
Arabia, Roman province created out of the former kingdom of...
- Oman
Northern Oman is dominated by three physiographic zones. The...
- Jordan
Jordan is a young state that occupies an ancient land, one...
- Middle East
The Middle East is the region around the southern and...
- Eastern Question
Eastern Question, diplomatic problem posed in the 19th and...
- Near East
1 dzień temu · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of history marked it off as the home of a distinctive civilization.
3 dni temu · Survey of the Mediterranean Sea, the intercontinental sea that separates Europe from Africa. Called the incubator of Western civilization, it runs west to east from the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco to the coast of Turkey and north to south between Croatia’s southern shores and Libya.
6 dni temu · A companion to the anthropology of Africa. E-book. Edited by Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Gonalves. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2019] Dictionary of African biography. 6 vols. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors in chief.
4 dni temu · In addition, Asia-ISC and Asia-Middle East/Africa lanes have been experiencing the same trend since the second half of May. For the Asia-Europe lane, spot rates continue to surge. The gap between Mediterranean and North Europe rates is narrowing as North Europe rates are rising faster than the Mediterranean.
5 dni temu · Images, Maps and Photographs from the Middle East. Abdul Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress) : This monumental collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893.
2 dni temu · Guarding its trade from both European and Asian competitors, Portugal dominated not only the trade between Asia and Europe, but also much of the trade between different regions of Asia and Africa, such as India, Indonesia, China, and Japan.
