Encyclopedia - Sea Of Azov: Encyclopedia - Sea Of Azov
The Sea of Azov (Russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; Ukrainian: Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a northern s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deluge Prehistoric: Encyclopedia Ii - 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
This is type 3 and 5. An abrupt climate change happened about 11,600 years ago at the termination of the Younger Dryas cold event, which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deluge Prehistoric: Encyclopedia Ii - Deluge Prehistoric - The Lower Tigris-euphrates Valley Reflooding The Persian Gulf 12000 Years Ago
This is type 1. When sea levels were low, the combined Tigris-Euphrates river flowed through a wide flat marshy landscape. The Persian Gu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Sea Fleet: Encyclopedia - Black Sea Fleet
Black Sea Fleet (Russian: Черноморский флот) is a large sub-unit of the Russian (and formerly Soviet) Navy, operating in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Sea: Encyclopedia - Black Sea
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimmerian Bosporus: Encyclopedia - Cimmerian Bosporus
The Cimmerian Bosporus (Bosporus Cimmerius) was the ancient name for the Strait of Kerch that connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vitus Bering: Encyclopedia - Vitus Bering
Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Behring) (August 1681–December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deluge Prehistoric: Encyclopedia Ii - Deluge Prehistoric - North America
In North America, during glacial maximum, there were no Great Lakes as we know them, but "proglacial" (ice-frontage) lakes formed and shi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Location Hypotheses Of Atlantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Location Hypotheses Of Atlantis - Eastern Hemisphere
Some investigators believe that Atlantis is in the Eastern Hemisphere, which would have the location in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - Geography
The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia (Guilan, Mazandaran and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - Geography
The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia (Guilan, Mazandaran and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Edmund Commerell: Encyclopedia Ii - John Edmund Commerell - Details
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Krasnodar Krai: Encyclopedia Ii - Krasnodar Krai - Geography
Krasnodar Krai encompasses the western part of the Forecaucasus and a part of the northern slopes of Caucasus Major. Krasnodar Krai borde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iazyges: Encyclopedia Ii - Iazyges - Antiquity
The Iazyges first make their appearance along the Sea of Azov, known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans as the Maeotis. For this reason the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - Geography
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 i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croats: Encyclopedia Ii - Croats - History
The origin of the Croat tribe before the great migration of the Slavs is uncertain. One theory suggests they are descended from ancient P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croats: Encyclopedia Ii - Croats - History
The origin of the Croat tribe before the great migration of the Slavs is uncertain. One theory suggests they are descended from ancient P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Geography
The Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains, or steppes, and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper, Seversky Done...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Caucasus: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Caucasus - Forces And Commanders
Battle of the Caucasus - Red Army. Northern Caucasian Front (Marshal Semyon Budenny) - until September 1942 Transcaucasian Front (Gene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - Geography
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 i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Chekhov: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Chekhov - Life
Anton Chekhov - Early life. Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a small provincial port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia on Janua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Justinian Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Justinian Ii - Exile
Justinian became a liability to Cherson and the authorities decided to return him to Constantinople in 702 or 703. He escaped from Cherso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taganrog: Encyclopedia Ii - Taganrog - Economy
The City of Taganrog is the leading industrial center of the Rostov Oblast. Local industry is presented by aerospace, machine-building, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev: Encyclopedia Ii - Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev - Wartime Commands
In 1826, Lazarev became commander of the ship Azov, which would sail to the Mediterranean Sea as a part of the squadron under the command...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oium: Encyclopedia Ii - Oium - Jordanes
Oium - Settlement. Jordanes relates that their king Filimer lead the Goths searching for suitable lands and when they found Oium they w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Origin Of Serbs: Encyclopedia Ii - Origin Of Serbs - Traces And Possible Migrations Of Serbs
The Serbs were mentioned by Plinius the Younger in the first century AD (69-75) as living on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as Serboi ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iron Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Iron Age - The European Iron Age
Iron working was introduced to Europe around 1000 BC, probably from Asia Minor and slowly spread westwards over the succeeding 500 years....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iron Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Iron Age - The European Iron Age
Iron working was introduced to Europe around 1000 BC, probably from Asia Minor and slowly spread westwards over the succeeding 500 years....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mariupol': Encyclopedia Ii - Mariupol' - City Image
Mariupol' - Architecture. Old Mariupol (the area is limited in the south to coast of sea of Azov, in the east - Kalmius river, in the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mariupol': Encyclopedia Ii - Mariupol' - Geography And Climate
Mariupol' - Geography. Mariupol is in the south of Donetsk area, on coast of sea of Azov, in a mouth of the river Kalmius. The city occ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sea: Encyclopedia - Sea
A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantis: Encyclopedia - Atlantis
The "Lost city" of Atlantis was an ancient mythical island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first references ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia - Alans
The Alans, Alani, Alauni or Halani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia - 1941
1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1941 - Events. 1941 - January-February. Janua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga River: Encyclopedia - Volga River
The Volga river in Western Russia, Europe's longest river, with a length of 3,690 km (2,293 miles), provides the core of the largest rive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). It is the world's largest inland body of water. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia - Amazons
In Greek mythology, the Ἀμαζόνες, Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Front World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Front World War Ii - Operations
Eastern Front World War II - Invasion: Summer 1941.    to 9 July 1941    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imperial Russian Navy: Encyclopedia Ii - Imperial Russian Navy - First Romanovs
Under Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich construction of the first three-masted ship, actually built within Russia, was completed in 1636. It was b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - History
Crimea - Early History. The earliest inhabitants of whom we have any authentic traces were the Cimmerians, who were expelled by the Scy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - International Disputes
There are three major issues regulated by the Caspian Sea status: access to mineral resources (oil and natural gas), access for fishing a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - Classification
The various subgroups of the Indo-European family include (in historical order of their first attestation): Anatolian languages — earl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimmerian Bosporus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cimmerian Bosporus - Kings Of Cimmerian Bosporus
According to Diodorus Siculus (xii. 31) the locality was governed from 480 to 438 B. C. by a line called the Archaeanactidae, probably a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Sea - List Of Seas Divided By Ocean
Sea - Pacific Ocean. Chilean Sea Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska Sea of Cortez (aka Gulf of California) Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Japan Seto Inl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Permafrost: Encyclopedia Ii - Permafrost - Continuous And Discontinuous Permafrost
Permafrost will form in any climate where the mean annual air temperature is less than the freezing point of water - unless there is suff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Barents Sea And White Sea Arctic Ocean
The rivers in this section are sorted east (Novaya Zemlya) to west (North Cape, Norway). In Russia: Pechora (north-east of Naryan-Mar) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Khazar Rulers: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Khazar Rulers - Khazar Khagans Ashina Dynasty
The Khagans were the supreme chiefs of the people, holding a position of much influence and spiritual authority, but not much actual day-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kerch: Encyclopedia Ii - Kerch - History
Kerch - Ancient times. Kerch is one of the most ancient cities of Ukraine, archeological digs at Mayak village near the city ascertaine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallithea: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallithea - The Growth Of The City
Between the first (1896) and the recent (2004) modern Olympic Games in Athens the city of Kallithea grew significantly. First the tramway...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Sea - Name
An equivalent of the name "Black Sea", Μαύρη Θάλασσα, cannot be traced to an earlier date than the 13th century. Strabo (1.2....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia Ii - 1941 - Events
1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - Early Alans
The first mentions of names that historians link with "Alani" appear almost at the same time in Greco-Roman geography and somewhat later ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Amazon-like Figures In History And Folklore
Armed women have often acted as royal bodyguards throughout history. Chandragupta Maurya (322–298 BC), the first emperor to develop a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlantis - Origin
Atlantis - Plato. Plato's accounts of Atlantis are in his works Timaeus and Critias; these are the earliest known references to the myt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Sea - List Of Seas, Divided By Ocean
Sea - Pacific Ocean. Chilean Sea Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska Sea of Cortez (aka Gulf of California) Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Japan Seto Inl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - English Channel
List of rivers of Europe - North coast. The rivers in this section are sorted west (Lizard Point, Cornwall) to east (Ramsgate). In Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Mediterranean Sea
List of rivers of Europe - Western Mediterranean. This section includes the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The rivers are sorted ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Irish Sea
The rivers in this section are sorted clockwise, starting from the (Mull of Kintyre). In Scotland: Clyde (near Glasgow) Clyde at Gla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Caspian Sea
The rivers in this section are sorted west to north-east. In Russia: Terek (near Kizlyar) Volga (near Astrakhan) Volga Samara (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Baltic Sea
The rivers in this section are sorted clockwise, starting from Helsingborg (south Sweden). In Sweden: Motala ström (in Norrköping) Dal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Khazar Rulers: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Khazar Rulers - Khazar Beks
The Beks were warlords, military commanders who exercised considerable day-to-day authority, and were sometimes regarded by outsiders as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - Alans And Slavs
Alan tribes living north of the Black Sea may have moved northwest into what is now Poland, merging with Slavic peoples there to become t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Atlantic Ocean
List of rivers of Europe - On Iceland. Jökulsá á Fjöllum (north coast) Þjórsá (south coast) List of rivers of Europe - Norweg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - North Sea
The rivers in this section are given clockwise along the North Sea coast, starting from Bergen, Norway. In Norway: Nidelva (in Arendal) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rivers Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rivers Of Europe - Black Sea
The rivers in this section are sorted west (Istanbul) to east (Sochi). In Romania: Danube (in Sulina)- Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hunga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Permafrost: Encyclopedia Ii - Permafrost - Permafrost Extent
Measurement of the depth and extent of permafrost may be an indicator of global warming as recent years (1998 and 2001) have seen record ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlantis - Location Hypotheses
Atlantis - The Mediterranean. Since Donnelly's day, there have been dozens—perhaps hundreds—of locations proposed for Atlantis. Som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlantis - Modern Interest
Atlantis - Nineteenth century. With rare exceptions, such as Francis Bacon's book The New Atlantis, interest in Atlantis mostly languis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga River: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga River - Human History
In ancient historical times the Volga was known as the Atil, Itil or Idil, a Turkic name meaning "long river." The arrival of the Turkics...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia Ii - 1941 - Births
1941 - January. January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician [[January 4[[ - Joan Frances Southwell, daughter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1941: Encyclopedia Ii - 1941 - Deaths
1941 - January. January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philiosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859) January 5 - Amy J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Permafrost: Encyclopedia Ii - Permafrost - Construction On Permafrost
Building on permafrost is difficult due to the heat of the building (or pipeline) melting the permafrost and sinking downwards. This sink...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - The 'eastern' Alans And Huns
Some of the other Alani, who remained under the rule of the Huns, were among the federates at the Battle of the Halys River, in Anatolia,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Sea - Extraterrestrial Seas
Lunar maria are vast basaltic plains on the Moon that were thought to be bodies of water by early astronomers, who referred to them as "s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - The 'western' Alans And Vandals
About 370 the Alans were overwhelmed by the Huns. They were divided into several groups, some of whom fled westward. A portion of these '...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - The Mongol Invasions And Their Aftermath
In the thirteenth century, fresh invading Mongol hordes pushed the eastern Alans further south into the Caucasus, where they mixed with n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimmerian Bosporus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cimmerian Bosporus - Byzantine Cimmerian Bosporus
In later times it seems in some sort to have been revived under Byzantine protection, and from time to time Byzantine officers built fort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - Characteristics And Ecology
The Caspian has characteristics common to both seas and lakes. It is often listed as the world's largest lake, though it is not a freshwa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Amazons In Greek Art
In works of art, combats between Amazons and Greeks are placed on the same level as and often associated with combats of Greeks and centa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Front World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Front World War Ii - Overview
The war between Germany and the Soviet Union began on 22 June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet-occupied portion of Poland, and ended...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Front World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Front World War Ii - Background
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 had established a non-aggression agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and a se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Modern Depiction Of Amazons
It has been noted that until the 20th century, Amazons were typically depicted in literature as an alien adversary that threatened the ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - Oil
The area is rich in energy wealth. As well as recently discovered oil fields, large natural gas supplies are also in evidence, though fur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Sea - Ryan-pitman Deluge Theory
For more detail, see the main article at Black Sea deluge theory. In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University publis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Sea - History
The steppes to the north of the Black Sea have been suggested as the original homeland (Urheimat) of the speakers of the Proto-Indo-Europ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - History
The sea is estimated to be about 30 million years old. It became landlocked about 5.5 million years ago. Discoveries in the Huto cave nea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caspian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Caspian Sea - Fauna
The Caspian holds great numbers of sturgeon, which yield eggs that are processed into caviar. In recent years overfishing has threatened ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Scythian Origins
In a recent excavation of Sarmatian sites by Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball, a tomb was found wherein female warriors were buried, thus lendi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Front World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Front World War Ii - Leadership
The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were ideologically driven totalitarian states in which the leader had near-absolute power. The characte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - Sound Changes
As the Indo-European languages broke up, the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) sound system diverged as well. The difference between the palatali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallithea: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallithea - Location
Kallithea (Greek: Καλλιθέα map) is the 8th biggest municipality in Greece (110,187 inhabitants, 2001 census) and the 4th biggest ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallithea: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallithea - The 1896 And 2004 Athens Olympics
The plans for the establishment of the new city of Kallithea were officially approved in December 1884. On the longitudinal axis of the t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Sea - Geology
The Black Sea is the largest anoxic, or oxygen-free, marine system. This is a result of the great depth of the sea and the relatively hig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - History
See also: Proto-Indo-European, Historical linguistics, Glottochronology. The possibility of common origin for some of these languages was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Etymology
The name Ἀμαζών is probably derived from an Iranian ethnonym, *ha-mazan-, originally meaning "warriors". A connected word is proba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Front World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Front World War Ii - Occupation And Repression
The enormous territorial gains of 1941 presented Germany with vast areas to pacify and administer. Some Soviet citizens, especially in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Front World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Front World War Ii - Industrial Output
The Soviet victory owed a great deal to the ability of her war industry to outperform the German economy, despite the enormous loss of po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Amazons Of Greek Mythology
Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus,which is part of modern day Turkey near the shore of the Euxine Sea, where they formed an indep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imperial Russian Navy: Encyclopedia Ii - Imperial Russian Navy - The Russian Navy During The Reign Of Peter The Great
The creation of the regular Russian Navy took place during the reign of Peter the Great. During the Second Azov campaign of 1696 against ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - Medieval Alania
In the 8th century a consolidated Alan kingdom, referred to in sources of the period[citation needed] as Alania, emerged in the northern ...   » Read the article