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Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Syria is significant in the history <bb>>ofb>bb>> Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many <bb>>ofb>bb>> his missionary journeys.
Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism <bb>>ofb>bb>> Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal <bb>>ofb>bb>> Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake <bb>>ofb>bb>> the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
Syria consists mostly <bb>>ofb>bb>> arid plateau, although the northwest part <bb>>ofb>bb>> the country bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria (4957 words)



Encyclopedia: <<<bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>> <bb>>ofb>bb>> cities in Israel

Dimona is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, 36 kilometers to the south <bb>>ofb>bb>> Beer-Sheva and 35 kilometers west <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Dead Sea in the Southern District <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel.
Tira (×˜×™×¨×”) is a city in the Center District <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel in Israel.
Yehud (×™×”×•×“) is a city in the Center District <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel in Israel.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-Israel (3896 words)



Encyclopedia: <<<bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>> <bb>>ofb>bb>> cities in Israel

Dimona is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, 36 kilometers to the south <bb>>ofb>bb>> Beer-Sheva and 35 kilometers west <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Dead Sea in the Southern District <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel.
Arad (Hebrew: ×¢×¨×“) is a modern city in southern Israel, on the border <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Judean Desert, 25 km west <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Dead Sea and 45 km east <bb>>ofb>bb>> Beer-Sheva, near the famous Masada (Metzada), in the South District <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel.
Tira (×˜×™×¨×”) is a city in the Center District <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel in Israel.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-Israel (3904 words)



Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Israel currently plans on expanding existing large West Bank settlement blocs, and maintains the current impasse in the peace process —negotiations toward a permanent peace treaty featuring a two-state solution— cannot be restarted until the Palestinian government dismantles terrorist groups.
At the end <bb>>ofb>bb>> 2003, <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel's 6.7 million people, 80.8% were "Jews and others" and 19.2% were Arabs.
Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for some years, and was fed by further waves <bb>>ofb>bb>> Jewish immigration following the collapse <bb>>ofb>bb>> the USSR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel (3939 words)



Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After several military losses to Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and their claims were taken by Morocco.
On August 3, 2005, it was reported that the Mauritanian military, including members <bb>>ofb>bb>> the presidential guard, had seized control <bb>>ofb>bb>> key points in the capital <bb>>ofb>bb>> Nouakchott, indicating a possible coup against the government <bb>>ofb>bb>> President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya who was out <bb>>ofb>bb>> the country, attending the funeral <bb>>ofb>bb>> Saudi King Fahd.
From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration <bb>>ofb>bb>> Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants <bb>>ofb>bb>> present-day Mauritania and the ancestors <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Soninke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania (3939 words)



Syria - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Syria

Syria leant increasingly towards the West, its policies in Lebanon in direct conflict with Iran's dream <bb>>ofb>bb>> an Islamic republic, and its crumbling economy was promised Arab aid if Damascus switched allegiance.
Nevertheless Syria became a centre for the revival <bb>>ofb>bb>> Arab culture and <bb>>ofb>bb>> the drive for Arab self-determination.
After the war Syria remained among the militants in the Arab world, refusing negotiations, and backing the claims <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Palestinians.

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Syria (2666 words)



Togo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The people <bb>>ofb>bb>> France and Togo were furious, and under their backlash Eyadéma gave in.
Togo was split between the British and the French by League <bb>>ofb>bb>> Nations mandates after World War I ended in 1918.
The south <bb>>ofb>bb>> Togo is characterized by a plateau which reaches to a coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo (1869 words)



SWEDEN - LoveToKnow Article on SWEDEN

In Sweden, however, both the Vestgotar and the Upland Sviar were discontented, the former on account <bb>>ofb>bb>> the breaking <bb>>ofb>bb>> the kings promise to Olaf <bb>>ofb>bb>> Norway and the latter on account <bb>>ofb>bb>> the introduction <bb>>ofb>bb>> the new religion, and their passions were further inflamed by the lawman Anund <bb>>ofb>bb>> Skara.
Sweden was also to enjoy her religion, subject to such changes as a general council might make; but neither pope nor council was to claim or exercise the right <bb>>ofb>bb>> releasing Sigismund from his obligations to his Swedish subjects.
On his arrival in Sweden, however, he tried to gain time by provisionally confirming what had been done; but the aggressiveness <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Protestant faction and the persistent usurpations <bb>>ofb>bb>> Duke Charles (the Riksdag <bb>>ofb>bb>> 1595 proclaimed him regent though the king had previously refused him that office) made a civil war inevitable.

http://25.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SW/SWEDEN.htm (21978 words)



Chechnya: Definition and Much More From Answers.com

His position as a rebel is also unknown, leading the Russians and others to speculate that his selection marks the continued rise <bb>>ofb>bb>> Basayev – with Saidullayev as a figurehead – and the dearth <bb>>ofb>bb>> leadership figures that remain in the separatist Chechen community.
On August 7th, invasion <bb>>ofb>bb>> Chechen forces – inluding a number <bb>>ofb>bb>> Arab and Dagestani extremists which were not affiliated with the Chechen government <bb>>ofb>bb>> Maskhadov – moved into Dagestan under the command <bb>>ofb>bb>> Basayev, Khattab and other Islamists.
Chechnya is considered an independent republic by its separatists, and a federal republic by its federalists.

http://www.answers.com/topic/chechnya (3787 words)



Hexapedia - Ancient Greece

In any case, the Greek cities were no longer capable <bb>>ofb>bb>> preserving their independence against these new states.
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast <bb>>ofb>bb>> Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unable to maintain their independence and came under the rule <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Persian Empire in the mid 6th century.
Ancient Greek civilisation has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture <bb>>ofb>bb>> the modern world, particularly during the Renaissance in Western Europe and again during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and America.

http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/Ancient_Greece (3109 words)



Morocco Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org

Recognition by the United Kingdom in 1904 <bb>>ofb>bb>> France's "sphere <bb>>ofb>bb>> influence" in Morocco provoked a German reaction; the "crisis" <bb>>ofb>bb>> 1905-6 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference (1906), which formalized France's "special position" and entrusted policing <bb>>ofb>bb>> Morocco jointly to France and Spain.
Morocco's Jewish minority has decreased significantly and numbers about 7,000 (See History <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Jews in Morocco).
The Rif mountains occupy the region bordering the Mediterranean from the north-west to the north-east.

http://www.naturalresearch.org/encyclopedia/Morocco (3401 words)



Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After independence Cyprus became a founding member <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Non-Aligned Movement despite all three guarantor powers (Greece, Turkey and the UK) being NATO members.
This is the origin <bb>>ofb>bb>> the claim that Cyprus became the first territory in the world to be governed by a christian ruler.
Turkey aside, all foreign governments and the United Nations recognise the sovereignty <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Republic <bb>>ofb>bb>> Cyprus over the whole island <bb>>ofb>bb>> Cyprus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus (3675 words)



Saint

<<<bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>> <bb>>ofb>bb>> Prime Ministers <bb>>ofb>bb>> Saint Lucia This page lists Prime Ministers <bb>>ofb>bb>> lists <bb>>ofb>bb>> incumbents.
Saint Mary's Catholic Church (Dubuque) Saint Mary's Catholic Church is a parish <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Dubuque, Iowa at the corner <bb>>ofb>bb>> 15...
<<<bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>> <bb>>Ofb>bb>> Prime Ministers <bb>>Ofb>bb>> Saint Kitts And Nevis

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/saint.html (3675 words)



Jew Watch - Jewish Occupied Governments - Israel

Reaction to the de-"Judaizing" <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel undoubtedly accounts for part <bb>>ofb>bb>> the swing back to greater religious consciousness in the recent election, when an unexpectedly large number <bb>>ofb>bb>> votes were cast even by nonreligious Israelis for religious parties.
A corollary <bb>>ofb>bb>> this view is that Israel is now strong enough to confront its myths about the state's founding and to voice reservations regarding events <bb>>ofb>bb>> the past, particularly in relation to the Arabs.
He claims that Israel "intentionally uprooted the Palestinian population and justified it on the basis <bb>>ofb>bb>> Jewish uniqueness as a consequence <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Holocaust."

http://jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-israel.html (6035 words)



Archaeology in Israel

Not all <bb>>ofb>bb>> the cities on the <<<bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>> were really smitten, but the Egyptians did indeed rule in Afek for a long time, as in probably large parts <bb>>ofb>bb>> the coast <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel.
The Philistines were still on the coast and had mixed with the Canaanites, but they had also founded five mighty cities, called the Pentapolis (Ashkelon and Ashdod were part <bb>>ofb>bb>> these), which ruled as independent states on the coast.
The Egyptians ruled the area indirectly, as governors <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Canaanites, the inhabitants <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel during the Bronze Age.

http://www.jewishmag.com/38mag/afek/afek.htm (1836 words)



ipedia.com: Iraq Article

Iraq's seizure <bb>>ofb>bb>> Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international economic sanctions, and damage from military action by an international coalition beginning in January 1991 drastically reduced economic activity.
From 1979 to 2003, Iraq was under Ba'ath Party rule, under the leadership <bb>>ofb>bb>> President Saddam Hussein.
Almost 75% <bb>>ofb>bb>> Iraq's population consists <bb>>ofb>bb>> Arabic speakers (mainly Iraqi but some Hejazi); the other major ethnic group are the Kurds (20%), who live in the north and north-east <bb>>ofb>bb>> the country.

http://www.ipedia.com/iraq.html (1836 words)



Cities & Towns : Israel Today - Israel My Beloved

Following his ascension as King <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel, David took Bet She'an during his wars against the Philistines and the city remained under Israelite rule for another 300 years.
Interesting fact: Ariel lies in central Samaria, the Biblical heartland <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel, and is recognized as the Jewish capital <bb>>ofb>bb>> the region.
The city boasts one <bb>>ofb>bb>> the highest education standards in the nation, and is recognized as the capital <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Galilee region.

http://www.israelmybeloved.com/today/cities_towns (3000 words)



Lebanon In The Holy Scriptures

This is a <<<bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>bb>b>bb>>bb>bb>>>> <bb>>ofb>bb>> the kings whom Joshua and the Israelites conquered west <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Jordan and whose land, from Baal-gad in the Lebanon valley to Mount Halak which rises toward Seir, Joshua apportioned to the tribes <bb>>ofb>bb>> Israel.
For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you, and the destruction <bb>>ofb>bb>> the beasts shall terrify you; because <bb>>ofb>bb>> men's blood shed, and violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
Lebanon, named "the white one" by the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 18:14) because snow covered it most <bb>>ofb>bb>> the year, is a long mountain range extending over a distance <bb>>ofb>bb>> about 160 km from southwest to northeast along the Mediterranean coast, from Nahr el-Litani to Nahr el-Kebir.

http://www.mari.org/JMS/january00/Lebanon_In_The_Holy_Scriptures.htm (8603 words)



Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hungary passed a series <bb>>ofb>bb>> anti-Semitic laws throughot the 1920s and thirties, and some massacres <bb>>ofb>bb>> Jews by Hungarian forces took place in the early part <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Second World War, but Hungary initially resisted large scale deportation <bb>>ofb>bb>> its Jewish population.
From the 1960s on to the late 1980s Hungary enjoyed a distinguished status <bb>>ofb>bb>> "the happiest barrack" within the Eastern bloc, under the rule <bb>>ofb>bb>> late controversial communist leader János Kádár, who exercised autocratic rule during this period.
Hungary's landscape consists mostly <bb>>ofb>bb>> the flat to rolling plains <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Carpathian Basin, with hills and lower mountains to the north along the Slovakian border (highest point: the Kékes at 1,014 m).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary (2275 words)



EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economy <bb>>ofb>bb>> Ancient Greece

Although the type <bb>>ofb>bb>> a Greek coin certainly expressed political symbols and could, therefore, serve as a political tool, such symbolism was largely lost on people who used the coins in places like Egypt, the Levant, Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia, where hoards <bb>>ofb>bb>> Greek coins have been found in abundance.
Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the scale <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Greek economy grew during the Archaic period and if not per capita, at least in proportion to the clear growth in population.
Given the remoteness <bb>>ofb>bb>> ancient Greek civilization, the evidence is minimal and difficulties <bb>>ofb>bb>> interpretation abound.

http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/article/engen.greece (13030 words)



Qatar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Most <bb>>ofb>bb>> the expats come from South Asia and from surrounding non-oil-rich Arab nations.
Qatar explicitly uses Wahhabi law as the basis <bb>>ofb>bb>> its government, and the vast majority <bb>>ofb>bb>> its citizens follow this specific Islamic doctrine.
Qatar has become one <bb>>ofb>bb>> the newer emirates in the Arabian Peninsula.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar (1405 words)



Syria

There have been instances in which Americans, especially those <bb>>ofb>bb>> Arab descent, believed to have traveled to Iraq were detained for questioning at ports <bb>>ofb>bb>> entry/exit.
A 1997 bombing <bb>>ofb>bb>> a public bus in downtown Damascus, which killed 22 people, and the 1998 and 2000 mob attacks against the U.S. Embassy serve as reminders that Syria is not immune from political violence.
On a number <bb>>ofb>bb>> occasions the border between Iraq and Syria has been closed without notice, stranding Americans on either side <bb>>ofb>bb>> the border.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/syria.html (2660 words)



SLOVAKIA.ORG - Detailed Information about the Slovak Republic (SK)

Slovakia, landlocked republic in Central Europe, bounded on the northwest by the Czech Republic, on the north by Poland, on the east by Ukraine, on the south by Hungary, and on the southwest by Austria.
Slovakia was considered part <bb>>ofb>bb>> Greater Hungary until 1918, when it united with the Czech lands <bb>>ofb>bb>> Bohemia and Moravia, in addition to a small part <bb>>ofb>bb>> Silesia, to form Czechoslovakia.
In November 1989 massive demonstrations by citizens in cities throughout Czechoslovakia brought about the end <bb>>ofb>bb>> Communist rule.

http://www.slovakia.org/sk-info.htm (2209 words)



PORTUGAL - LoveToKnow Article on PORTUGAL

All these precedents seemed to indicate that Spain and Portugal would ultimately form one state; and despite the strong nationalism which their separate language and history had inspired among the Portuguese, the union <bb>>ofb>bb>> 1581 might have endured if the terms <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Thomar compact had been observed.
and Figueira da Foz (6221); and the inland cities or towns <bb>>ofb>bb>> Braga (24,2o2),Loul (22,478), Coimbra (18,144), Evora (16,020),
But in order to avoid the economic dangers threatened by such an exodus, every Jew and Jewess between the ages <bb>>ofb>bb>> 4 and 24 was seized and forcibly baptized (19th March): Christians were not required to emigrate.

http://88.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PO/PORTUGAL.htm (21258 words)



Why War? Keywords: Lebanon

...o Egypt through Britain's rule <bb>>ofb>bb>> Iraq in the 1920s to Israel's march into Lebanon in 1982, Middle East nations have tempted conquerors only to send them ree...
...wer to carry out pre-emptive attacks and send troops to Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, the West Bank and anywhere else in the Middle East.
The children <bb>>ofb>bb>> illiterate farmers from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, they learned to be doctors and lawyers in the schools <bb>>ofb>bb>> t...

http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/read.php?offset=30&id=540&sortby= (527 words)



City article - City town village hamlet downtown Introduction Geography History - What-Means.com

Following this view <bb>>ofb>bb>> cities, it is possible to rank the world's cities hierarchically (John Friedmann and Goetz Wolff, "World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and Action," International Journal <bb>>ofb>bb>> Urban and Regional Research 6, no. 3 (1982): 319.).
Thirdly, the disconnected view <bb>>ofb>bb>> cities is problematic.
A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status.

http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/Cities (2883 words)



Crisis in Chechnya - Global Issues

Russia never accepted Chechnya as a separate republic and was determined not to encourage other areas to secede (perhaps similar to how many have pointed out that western imperial countries were trying hard to prevent “their” colonies from breaking free in the aftermath <bb>>ofb>bb>> the Second World War);
Citing a number <bb>>ofb>bb>> journalists who tried to investigate, it turned out that it was not likely that Chechens were in Afghanistan.
British journalist Lindsey Hilsum notes how the Russian hard line in Chechnya is breeding terrorists.

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Chechnya.asp (3556 words)



Western Sahara - free-definition

Western Sahara (EH in ISO 3166-1) is a region <bb>>ofb>bb>> northwestern Africa, bordering Morocco on the north, Algeria on the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west.
Morocco occupied the northern two-thirds <bb>>ofb>bb>> Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara) in 1976, and the rest <bb>>ofb>bb>> the territory in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal.
Whether it is part <bb>>ofb>bb>> Morocco or is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), is disputed.

http://www.netlexikon.akademie.de/EH.html (380 words)



Mauritania News & Mauritania Views

Israel condemned the military coup in Mauritania and said it would wait to see how it would affect ties with one <bb>>ofb>bb>> the only three Arab countries with whom it has diplomatic relations.
Mauritania's capital was calm on Thursday as the country awaited announcements from a group <bb>>ofb>bb>> officers who say they have seized power to end more than two decades <bb>>ofb>bb>> "totalitarian" rule by the president.
The overthrow <bb>>ofb>bb>> Mauritania's dictator <bb>>ofb>bb>> 20 years in a military coup should durn well make the West sit up and pay attention....Mauritania is also notorious for being the country that turns the blindest eye in the world to slavery....

http://www.joogali.com/Mauritania.html (380 words)



Republic <bb>>ofb>bb>> Lebanon

Lebanese supporters <bb>>ofb>bb>> Syria claim this is a legitimate presence as it was requested by the Lebanese government at the outset <bb>>ofb>bb>> the civil war in 1975.
Lebanon is a parliamentary democratic Republic based on respect for public liberties, especially the freedom <bb>>ofb>bb>> opinions and belief, and respect for social justice and equality <bb>>ofb>bb>> rights and duties among all citizens without discrimination.
Sites such as the CIA factbook where they claim that we are 43% christians but in reality we are 75% christians.

http://wave.prohosting.com/phocea/republicoflebanon.htm (4448 words)

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