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A 16th-century map of the Black Sea by Diogo Homem Greek colonies (8th–3rd century BC) of the Black Sea (Euxine, or "hospitable" sea) The Black Sea was a busy waterway on the crossroads of the ancient world: the Balkans to the west, the Eurasian steppes to the north, the Caucasus and Central Asia to the east, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia to the ...
Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since Typical border marker of Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states [1] as well as two narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan.
Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones , and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations .
Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
Updated maps to add Russian city of Sochi. 19:11, 7 May 2007: 1,200 × 912 (370 KB) NormanEinstein: Corrected city name typo. 13:10, 29 May 2006: 1,200 × 914 (133 KB) NormanEinstein: Reduced image size. 14:54, 25 July 2005: 1,200 × 916 (476 KB) NormanEinstein: A map showing the location of the Black Sea and some of the large or prominent ...
The campaigns were headed by Peter I and aimed to gain Russian access to the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. The first campaign began in the spring of 1695. The Russian army consisted of 31 thousand men and 170 cannons and included selected trained regiments and Cossacks. It reached Azov on 27–28 June and besieged it by land by 5 July.
The central tenet of the Black Sea deluge hypothesis is that as the ocean rose 72.5 metres (238 ft) at the end of the last Ice Age when the massive ice sheets melted, the sealed Bosporus was overwhelmed by a spectacular flood that increased the then fresh water Black Sea Lake by 50%, and drove people back from the shores for many months.
Sea of Azov; Siege of Constantinople (1411) Siege of Constantinople (626) Siege of Trebizond (1461) Siege of Varna (1201) Siege of Varna (1828) Snake Island (Ukraine) Snake Island campaign; Sudak; Taman, Russia; Trabzon; Tuapse; Varna, Bulgaria; Varna Airport; Yevpatoria; User:KumruKocaman/Black Sea; Module:Location map/data/Black Sea; Module ...