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2 days ago · A sea is a large body of salty water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the wider body of seawater . Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea ), or certain large, nearly landlocked bodies of water. The salinity of water bodies varies ...
3 days ago · The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent include the invasions which started in the northwestern subcontinent (modern-day Pakistan ), especially the Umayyad campaigns during the 8th century. Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid ...
3 days ago · The Portuguese Empire ( Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ] ), also known as the Portuguese Overseas ( Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire ( Império Colonial Português ), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom ...
3 days ago · It has the world's largest deep sea port, the Port of Gwadar lying in the Arabian Sea. Although it makes up about 44% of the land area of Pakistan, only 5% of it is arable and it is noted for an extremely dry desert climate. Despite this, agriculture and livestock make up about 47% of Balochistan's economy.
4 days ago · In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the " Out of Africa " theory ( OOA) [a] is the most widely accepted [1] [2] [3] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ). It follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa, accomplished by Homo erectus and then ...
3 days ago · The Rashidun Caliphate ( Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَةُ ٱلرَّاشِدَةُ, romanized : al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was ruled by the first four successive caliphs of Muhammad after his death in 632 CE. During its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic ...
3 days ago · Regnal name. Septimia Zenobia Augusta. House. House of Odaenathus. Septimia Zenobia ( Palmyrene Aramaic: 𐡡𐡶𐡦𐡡𐡩 , Bat-Zabbai; c. 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry; she was probably not a commoner and she married the ruler of the city, Odaenathus.
