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Reference no. 1572. Region. Western Asia. Göbekli Tepe ( Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], [2] 'Potbelly Hill'; [3] Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xirabreşkê, 'Wish Hill' [4]) is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, [5] during the Pre-Pottery ...
India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
Ephesus (/ ˈ ɛ f ɪ s ə s /; Greek: Ἔφεσος, translit. Éphesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite: 𒀀𒉺𒊭, romanized: Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political unification ...
Miami, [11] officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the much larger Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta, and the ninth-largest in the ...
Mesopotamia [a] is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq. [1] [2] In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait.
Map of the disintegration of Yugoslavia until 2008. Montenegrin General Pavle Strugar was convicted for his part in the bombing of Dubrovnik. [54] Bosnian refugees were arrested by Montenegrin police and transported to Serb camps in Foča , where they were subjected to systematic torture and executed.
The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...