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The sometimes-violent creation of protectorates in Iraq and Palestine, and the proposed division of Syria along communal lines, is thought to have been a part of the larger strategy of ensuring tension in the Middle East, thus necessitating the role of Western colonial powers (at that time Britain, France and Italy) as peace brokers and arms ...
But when discussing the geopolitical region of the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt is usually grouped with the Western Asian countries as part of the Middle East, while Egypt's western neighbor Libya is grouped with the remaining North African countries as the Maghreb. Both are members of the African Union.
A group of former Soviet Eastern European countries cooperating with the EU: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. European Political Community; An intergovernmental forum for political and strategic discussions about the future of Europe, with participants from 47 European countries. OECD Europe countries
Europe in the Early Middle Ages. In the East and Southeast of Europe new dominant states formed: the Avar Khaganate (567–after 822), Old Great Bulgaria (632–668), the Khazar Khaganate (c. 650–969) and Danube Bulgaria (founded by Asparuh in 680) were constantly rivaling the hegemony of the Byzantine Empire.
Yemen had been at the center of an international trading network linking Eurasia to Africa, and Yemen had been visited by merchants from East Africa, Europe, the Middle East, India and even from as far away as China. [14]
Digital rendering of Europe focused over the continent's eastern portion. Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations.
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe. [3] [4] Central Europe is known for its cultural diversity; [5] [6] however, countries in this region also share historical and cultural similarities.
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.