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  2. Abu Dujana - Wikipedia

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    Abu Dujana was born as Simak ibn Kharasha, a member of the Banu Sa'idah tribe from the Ansar. [1]Abu Dujana participated in the Expedition of Hamza ibn 'Abdul-Muttalib, where he faced the forces of Amr ibn Hishām, but the two sides did not engage in battle due to the intervention of a third party named Majdi ibn Amr.

  3. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi - Wikipedia

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    Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi (25 December 1977 – 30 December 2009) was a Jordanian doctor and a triple agent suicide bomber, who was loyal to Islamist extremists of al-Qaeda, and who carried out the Camp Chapman attack, which was a suicide attack against a CIA base near Khost, Afghanistan on 30 December 2009.

  4. Portolan chart - Wikipedia

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    Map of Ibrahim al-Tabib al-Mursi from 1461 Map of western Europe, anonymous and undated, preserved in the Ambrosiana Library , dating from the 14th [ 21 ] or 15th centuries. In addition there is a detailed description of a nautical Arab map of the Mediterranean in the Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Ibn Fadl Allah al-'Umari , written between 1330 ...

  5. Portuguese Riviera - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese Riviera (Portuguese: Riviera Portuguesa) is a term used in the tourist industry for the affluent coastal region to the west of Lisbon, Portugal, centered on the coastal municipalities of Cascais (including Estoril), Oeiras and Sintra.

  6. Geography of Portugal - Wikipedia

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    Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in continental Portugal and popular tourist winter destination The volcanic lake of Lagoa das Furnas, on the island of São Miguel. Portugal is located on the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula and plateau, that divides the inland Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. It is located on the ...

  7. Camp Chapman attack - Wikipedia

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    Al-Balawi had a history of supporting violent Islamist causes online under the pseudonym Abu Dujana al-Khurasani. [7] Al-Balawi became an administrator and a well-known contributor for al-Hesbah, an online jihadist forum. [23] He had tried to rehabilitate the image of al-Zarqawi in Jordan after the 2005 Amman bombings.

  8. Desertas Islands - Wikipedia

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    The high, long, and rocky islands of the group are barren of topsoil, and the only wildlife consists of about sixteen species of birds, including eight species of seabirds, and a scarce population of feral goats, rabbits, and rodents, brought from Portugal by the mariners who first reached the rocky shores.

  9. Greater Khorasan - Wikipedia

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    Greater Khorasan [2] (Middle Persian: 𐬒𐬊𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥, romanized: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان, [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ⓘ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.