The Sea of Azov (Russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; Ukrainian: Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a northern section of the Black Sea, linked to the larger body through the Kerch Strait. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula. The Black Sea deluge theory dates the genesis of the Sea of Azov to 5600 BC, and there are traces of Neolithic settlement in the area now covered by it. In antiquity, it was known as the M ...

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Deluge prehistoric, Deluge prehistoric - The Black Sea around 7600 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley reflooding the Persian Gulf 12000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - Great Sunda wetlands Indonesia, Deluge prehistoric - The Carpenteria plain 12000 to 10000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The Aegean Basin, Deluge prehistoric - Doggerland, Deluge prehistoric - North America, Deluge prehistoric - The refilling of the Mediterranean, Deluge prehistoric - The Caspian Sea Sea of Azov Black Sea Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea around 11600 years ago and about 5600 BC, Deluge prehistoric - Tollmann's hypothetical bolide

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This is type 1. When sea levels were low, the combined Tigris-Euphrates river flowed through a wide flat marshy landscape. The Persian Gulf today has an average depth of only 35 m. During the most recent glaciation, which ended 12,000 years ago, worldwide sea levels dropped 120 to 130 m, leaving the bed of the Persian Gulf well above sea level during the glacial maximum. It had to have been a swampy freshwater floodp ...

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Deluge prehistoric, Deluge prehistoric - The Black Sea around 7600 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley reflooding the Persian Gulf 12000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - Great Sunda wetlands Indonesia, Deluge prehistoric - The Carpenteria plain 12000 to 10000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The Aegean Basin, Deluge prehistoric - Doggerland, Deluge prehistoric - North America, Deluge prehistoric - The refilling of the Mediterranean, Deluge prehistoric - The Caspian Sea Sea of Azov Black Sea Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea around 11600 years ago and about 5600 BC, Deluge prehistoric - Tollmann's hypothetical bolide

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Black Sea Fleet (Russian: Черноморский флот) is a large sub-unit of the Russian (and formerly Soviet) Navy, operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the early 18th century. It is based in various harbours of Russia's Black Sea and Sea of Azov coast. The Fleet's main base is situated in the Ukrainian port city of Sevastopol. The continuing use of this base, more than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been an occasional ...

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The Black Sea (known as the Euxine Sea in antiquity) is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch. There is a net inflow of seawater through the Bosporus, 200 km³ per year. There is an inflow of freshwater from the surrounding areas, especially central and middle-eastern Europe, totalling 320 km³ per year. The most important ...

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• Black Sea - Name
• Black Sea - Geology
• Black Sea - Ryan-Pitman Deluge Theory
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• Black Sea - Holiday resorts and spas

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The Cimmerian Bosporus (Bosporus Cimmerius) was the ancient name for the Strait of Kerch that connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The Cimmerians (Cimmerii) were the ancient inhabitants who gave their name to a strait that reminded the Greeks of the more familiar Bosporus that separates Thrace from Asia at Byzantium. The Bosporan kingdom is interesting as the first Hellenistic state, the first, that is to say, in which a mixed population adopted the Greek language and civilization. It depended for it ...

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Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Behring) (August 1681–December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. He was born in the town of Horsens in Denmark and died at Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. After a voyage to the East Indies, he joined the Russian Navy in 1703, serving in the Baltic Fleet during the Great Northern War. In 1710–1712 he served in the Azov Sea Fleet in Taganro ...

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In North America, during glacial maximum, there were no Great Lakes as we know them, but "proglacial" (ice-frontage) lakes formed and shifted. They lay in the areas of the modern lakes, but their drainage sometimes passed south, into the Mississippi system, sometimes into the Arctic, or east into the Atlantic. The most famous of these proglacial lakes was Lake Agassiz. A series of floods, as ice-dam configurations failed created a series of great floods from Lake Agassiz, resulting in massive pulses of freshwater added to the world's oceans. The Missoula Floods of Washington were also caused by brea ...

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Deluge prehistoric, Deluge prehistoric - The Black Sea around 7600 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley reflooding the Persian Gulf 12000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - Great Sunda wetlands Indonesia, Deluge prehistoric - The Carpenteria plain 12000 to 10000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The Aegean Basin, Deluge prehistoric - Doggerland, Deluge prehistoric - North America, Deluge prehistoric - The refilling of the Mediterranean, Deluge prehistoric - The Caspian Sea Sea of Azov Black Sea Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea around 11600 years ago and about 5600 BC, Deluge prehistoric - Tollmann's hypothetical bolide

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Some investigators believe that Atlantis is in the Eastern Hemisphere, which would have the location in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Mediterranean. Because some basic and nomadic civilizations began around the Mediterranean area, which is also part of the Cradle of Humanity (Between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, modern day Iraq), some believe that Atlantis is located here. Some factors that weigh toward this location was the Minoan civilization, which flourished on ...

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Location hypotheses of Atlantis, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Eastern hemisphere, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Mediterranean, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - North Sea, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Black Sea, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Sea of Azov, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Antarctica, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Finland, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Ireland, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Indonesia/Sundaland, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - India and Sri Lanka, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Japan - Yonaguni, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Western hemisphere, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Mid-Atlantic, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Azores Islands, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Canary Islands, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Bahama Bank and Caribbean, Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Isla de la Juventud near Cuba

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The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia (Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Turkmenistan (Balkan Province), and Kazakhstan, with the central Asian steppes to the north and east. On its eastern Turkmen shore is a large embayment, the Kara Bogaz Gol. The sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Manych Canal. Caspian ...

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Caspian Sea, Caspian Sea - Geography, Caspian Sea - Cities near the Caspian Sea, Caspian Sea - History, Caspian Sea - Fauna, Caspian Sea - Oil, Caspian Sea - International Disputes, Caspian Sea - Characteristics and ecology, Caspian Sea - Transportation, Caspian Sea - Freezing

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The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia (Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Turkmenistan (Balkan Province), and Kazakhstan, with the central Asian steppes to the north and east. On its eastern Turkmen shore is a large embayment, the Garabogazköl. The sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Manych Canal. Caspian ...

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Caspian Sea, Caspian Sea - Geography, Caspian Sea - Cities near the Caspian Sea, Caspian Sea - History, Caspian Sea - Fauna, Caspian Sea - Oil, Caspian Sea - International disputes, Caspian Sea - Characteristics and ecology, Caspian Sea - Transportation, Caspian Sea - Freezing

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He was 26 years old, and a Commander in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 11 October 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea, Commander Commerell of HMS Weser, with the Quartermaster (William Thomas Rickard) and a seaman, went to destroy large quantities of forage on the shore of the Putrid Sea. After a difficult and dangerous journey they reached their objective - a magazine of corn - and managed to ignite the stacks, but the guards were alerted and immediately ...

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John Edmund Commerell, John Edmund Commerell - Details, John Edmund Commerell - Further information, John Edmund Commerell - The medal, John Edmund Commerell - Reference

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Krasnodar Krai encompasses the western part of the Forecaucasus and a part of the northern slopes of Caucasus Major. Krasnodar Krai borders, clockwise from the west, Ukraine—from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch and the Sea of Azov—Russia's Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, and Karachay-Cherkessia, and Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The krai territory encompasses the republic of Adygeya. Krasnodar Krai's southern border is formed by what is left of Russia's Black Sea coast, with the most important port (Novorossiysk) and ...

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Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar Krai - Geography, Krasnodar Krai - Time zone, Krasnodar Krai - Administrative divisions, Krasnodar Krai - Demographics

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The Iazyges first make their appearance along the Sea of Azov, known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans as the Maeotis. For this reason they are referred to by the geographer Ptolemy as the Iazyges Metanastae. From there, the Jazyges moved west along the shores of the Black Sea to what is now Moldova and the southwestern Ukraine. They served as allies of Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus (in what is now western Turkey), in his wars against the Romans (c. 88-84 BC). In 78-76 BC, the Romans sent a punitive expedition over the Danube ...

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Iazyges, Iazyges - Antiquity, Iazyges - Roman times, Iazyges - Late Antiquity, Iazyges - Sources

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The Crimea borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov in the East. Its area is 26,100 square kilometres with a population of 2.0 million (2004-05-01). The capital is Simferopol. Crimea is connected to the Ukrainian mainland by the 5–7 kilometre (3–4 mile) wide Isthmus of Perekop. At the eastern tip is the Kerch Peninsula, which is directly opposite the Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland. Between the Kerch and Taman peninsula lies the 3–13 km (2–9 mi) wide Kerch Strait, which connects ...

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Crimea, Crimea - Geography, Crimea - History, Crimea - Early History, Crimea - Crimean Khanate, Crimea - Russian Empire, Crimea - Soviet Union, Crimea - Autonomy in independent Ukraine

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The origin of the Croat tribe before the great migration of the Slavs is uncertain. One theory suggests they are descended from ancient Persia (cf. Alans). The earliest mention of the Croatian name, Horoathos, can be traced on two stone inscriptions in Greek language and script, dating from around the year 200 AD, found in the seaport Tanais on the Azov sea, Crimea peninsula (near the Black Sea). Both tablets are kept in the Archaeological m ...

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The origin of the Croat tribe before the great migration of the Slavs is uncertain. One theory suggests they are descended from ancient Persia (cf. Alans). The earliest mention of the Croatian name, Horouathos, can be traced on two stone inscriptions in Greek language and script, dating from around the year 200 AD, found in the seaport Tanais on the Azov sea, Crimea peninsula (near the Black Sea). Both tablets are kept in the Archaeological museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the 7th century, the Croat tribe moved from the a ...

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The Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains, or steppes, and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper, Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Buh as they flow south into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. To the southwest the delta of the Danube forms the border with Romania. The country's only mountains are the Carpathian Mountains in the west, of which the highest is the Hora Hoverla at 2,061 metres (6,762 ft), and those in the Crimean peninsula, in the extreme south along the coast. Ukraine has a mo ...

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Ukraine, Ukraine - Name, Ukraine - History, Ukraine - Government and Politics, Ukraine - Subdivisions, Ukraine - Geography, Ukraine - Economy, Ukraine - Demographics, Ukraine - Religion, Ukraine - Culture, Ukraine - Miscellaneous topics

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Battle of the Caucasus - Red Army. Northern Caucasian Front (Marshal Semyon Budenny) - until September 1942 Transcaucasian Front (General of the Army Ivan Tyulenev) Black Sea Fleet (Vice-Admiral Filipp Oktyabrsky) Azov Sea Flotilla (Counter-Admiral Sergey Gorshkov) Battle of the Caucasus - Wehrmacht. to be added ...

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The Crimea borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov in the East. Its area is 26,100 square kilometres with a population of 2.0 million (2004-05-01). The capital is Simferopol. Crimea is connected to the Ukrainian mainland by the 5–7 kilometre (3–4 mile) wide Isthmus of Perekop. At the eastern tip is the Kerch Peninsula, which is directly opposite the Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland. Between the Kerch and Taman peninsula lies the 3–13 km (2–9 mi) wide Kerch Strait, which connects ...

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Crimea, Crimea - Geography, Crimea - History, Crimea - Early History, Crimea - Crimean Khanate, Crimea - Russian Empire, Crimea - Soviet Union & Nazi rule, Crimea - Autonomy in independent Ukraine

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