southern
strategic location dominating central Mediterranean as well as southern sea and air approaches to Western Europe
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southern
... able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia. It occupied Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island. In 1931-32 Japan occupied Manchuria, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale ...
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Southern
... and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kuril Islands," occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia and claimed ...
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Southern
... Phoenix Islands; note - in addition, there are 6 districts (Banaba, Central Gilberts, Line Islands, Northern Gilberts, Southern Gilberts, Tarawa) and 21 island councils - one for each of the inhabited islands (Abaiang, Abemama ...
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southern
... in the Korean War (1950-53) to conquer the US-backed Republic of Korea (ROK) in the southern portion by force, North Korea (DPRK), under its founder President KIM Il Sung, adopted a ...
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southern
... in 1945. After World War II, a Republic of Korea (ROK) was set up in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula while a Communist-style government was installed in the north ...
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southern
Eastern Asia, southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
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southern
... about 16,000 based mainly east of Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley. Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000 and the passage in October 2004 of UNSCR 1559 - a resolution ...
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Southern
... brief but bloody intervention by South African and Botswanan military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community. Subsequent constitutional reforms restored relative political stability. Peaceful parliamentary elections were held ...
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Southern
Southern Africa, an enclave of South Africa
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southern
Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa
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Southern
Media Institute of Southern Africa, Lesotho chapter [Thabang MATJAMA] (pushes for media freedom)
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Southern
... mountainous, Lesotho relies on remittances from miners employed in South Africa and customs duties from the Southern Africa Customs Union for the majority of government revenue. However, the government has recently strengthened ...
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southern
hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind lasting one to four days in spring and fall; dust storms, sandstorms
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southern
... sq km in southeastern Algeria and about 25,000 sq km in the Tommo region of Niger in a currently dormant dispute; various Chadian rebels from the Aozou region reside in southern Libya
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Southern
landlocked; major transportation corridor from Western and Central Europe to Aegean Sea and Southern Europe to Western Europe
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Southern
Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Mozambique
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Southern
Southern Africa, east of Zambia
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southern
strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea
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southern
... rock in the hydrocarbon-rich Celebes Sea in dispute; separatist violence in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southern provinces prompts measures to close and monitor border with Malaysia to stem terrorist activities; Philippines ...
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Southern
Southern Asia, group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India
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southern
landlocked; divided into three natural zones: the southern, cultivated Sudanese; the central, semiarid Sahelian; and the northern, arid Saharan
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Southern
Southern Europe, islands in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily (Italy)
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southern
Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla ...
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southern
most of the population concentrated in the cities of Nouakchott and Nouadhibou and along the Senegal River in the southern part of the country
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Southern
Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
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Southern
Southern Indian Ocean, island in the Mozambique Channel, about half way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique
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