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1 day ago · Marokko ( [ maˈrɔko ], arabisch المغرب al-Maghrib, DMG al-Maġrib ‚der Westen‘, marokkanisches Tamazight ⵍⵎⴰⵖⵔⵉⴱ Elmaɣrib / ⵎⵓⵕⵕⴰⴽⵓⵛ Muṛṛakuc ), offiziell Königreich Marokko ( arabisch المملكة المغربية, DMG al-Mamlaka al-Maġribiyya ), ist ein Staat im Nordwesten Afrikas. Er ist ...
2 days ago · Poseidon ( / pəˈsaɪdən, pɒ -, poʊ -/; [1] Greek: Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. [2] . He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many Hellenic cities and colonies.
2 days ago · The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The city was founded in 1070 by Emir Abu Bakr ibn Umar as the capital of the Almoravid dynasty . The Almoravids established the first major structures in the city and shaped its layout for centuries to come.
2 days ago · Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of Atlas.’ It is second in size to the Pacific Ocean.
- Covering approximately one-fifth of Earth’s surface, the area of the Atlantic Ocean without its dependent seas is approximately 31,568,000 square m...
- The Atlantic Ocean has an average depth (with its seas) of 11,962 feet (3,646 meters) and a maximum depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 meters) in the Puer...
- The outstanding feature of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an immense median mountain range extending throughout the len...
- The surface waters of the North Atlantic have a higher salinity than those of any other ocean, reaching values exceeding 37 parts per thousand in l...
- The Atlantic Ocean provides millions of tons of fish and other seafood annually for human consumption, including lobster, haddock, cod, mackerel, h...
19 hours ago · The national capital, Tokyo (Tōkyō), in east-central Honshu, is one of the world’s most populous cities. Mount Fuji from its northern side, Yamanashi prefecture, east-central Honshu, Japan. The Japanese landscape is rugged, with more than four-fifths of the land surface consisting of mountains.
4 days ago · Romania is a country in Europe. Romania borders Hungary and Serbia (with Vojvodina) to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south. Romania has a stretch of sea coast along the Black Sea, and the eastern and southern Carpathian mountains run through its center.
1 day ago · In Sweden, five years after Peter's death, in 1730 Philip Johan von Strahlenberg published a new atlas proposing the Ural Mountains as the border of Asia. Tatishchev announced that he had proposed the idea to von Strahlenberg.
