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  • Thumbnail for Crucifixion
    Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual...
    95 KB (10,944 words) - 06:58, 23 May 2024
  • Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and...
    94 KB (9,818 words) - 16:26, 17 April 2024
  • A bakhsh (Persian: بخش, also romanized as baxš) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately...
    6 KB (388 words) - 19:50, 27 March 2024
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    Cressi is one of the largest manufacturers of water sports equipment in the world serving the scuba dive, snorkel and swim industries. The company's five...
    13 KB (1,568 words) - 02:38, 15 February 2024
  • Digda was a town, in what is now the Aegean Region of Turkey, during the Iron Age. The name is a Lydian word of unknown significance. This took on the...
    1 KB (149 words) - 12:55, 7 August 2020
  • The 2018 Qamishli clashes were a skirmish that erupted between the Syrian Arab Army and the Asayish forces in the city of Qamishli, Syria on September...
    4 KB (242 words) - 20:31, 1 April 2022
  • Palaeopolis (in Asia) was a city in ancient Lydia that was included in the late Roman province of Asia Prima. Its bishopric was thus a suffragan of Ephesus...
    6 KB (707 words) - 09:55, 9 April 2022
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    Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority. Such mass migrations...
    83 KB (9,527 words) - 12:53, 7 May 2024
  • Lunda or Lounda is an ancient city in Phrygia, Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Under the Roman Empire, it was in the province of Phrygia Prima (Pacatiana)...
    2 KB (138 words) - 04:13, 22 July 2022
  • The Army of Free Tribes (Arabic: جيش احرار العشائر, Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer), previously called the Southern Command and the Collective of Free Southern...
    5 KB (324 words) - 16:43, 12 June 2022
  • The Marine Commandos (Arabic: مغاوير البحر, romanized: Maghāwīr al Baħr) are an elite unit of the Lebanese Army. They are part of the Lebanese Special...
    21 KB (2,464 words) - 23:40, 5 March 2023
  • Kayer (Persian: كاير, also Romanized as Kāyer) is a village in Margavar Rural District, Silvaneh District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran...
    2 KB (90 words) - 20:48, 2 October 2019
  • Ain Halaqim (Arabic: عين حلاقيم, also spelled Ein Halakim) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located west...
    7 KB (509 words) - 06:25, 24 March 2022
  • Madabeh (Persian: مدبه) is a village in Dehpir Rural District, in the Central District of Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census...
    2 KB (58 words) - 23:58, 26 June 2023
  • Mahrokhi Kalleh Jub (Persian: ماهرخي كله جوب, also Romanized as Māhrokhī Kalleh Jūb) is a village in Beyranvand-e Jonubi Rural District, Bayravand District...
    2 KB (67 words) - 23:58, 26 June 2023
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    Qasr Ibn Wardan (Arabic: قصر ابن وردان) is a hamlet and 6th-century archaeological site located in the Syrian Desert, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi)...
    6 KB (395 words) - 13:51, 21 May 2023
  • Eluza (or Iluza) is an ancient city in the late Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana Prima, Asia Minor. Its site is at modern Acemlar or Hacimlar, Turkey...
    828 bytes (63 words) - 16:39, 9 August 2022
  • Zarija (Persian: زريجا, also Romanized as Zarījā) is a village in Sajjadrud Rural District, Bandpey-ye Sharqi District, Babol County, Mazandaran Province...
    2 KB (61 words) - 10:39, 17 February 2022
  • Abul Kusour (Arabic: أبو الكسور) is a Syrian village located in Al-Saan Subdistrict in Salamiyah District, Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau...
    3 KB (52 words) - 20:19, 18 November 2021
  • Birin (Arabic: بيرين) is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)...
    3 KB (48 words) - 07:26, 17 February 2021
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