Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Al-Andalus [a] (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France.
Map of Spain in 1960. Present-day Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara, as well as the Ifni territory were still part of Spain . In 1959, the Spanish territory on the Gulf of Guinea was established with a status similar to the provinces of metropolitan Spain.
East Tennessee's major landforms. East Tennessee is located within three major geological divisions of the Appalachian Mountains: the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border with North Carolina in the east; the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (usually called the "Great Appalachian Valley" or "Tennessee Valley" [a]) in the center; and the Cumberland Plateau in the west, part of which is in Middle ...
Founded as Kentucky Normal Technological Institute Yes South Carolina State University: Orangeburg: South Carolina: 1896 Public Founded as "Colored, Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College of South Carolina" Yes Southern University at New Orleans: New Orleans: Louisiana: 1956 Public
The South Carolina Botanical Garden (295 acres) is located in Pickens County, South Carolina on the campus of Clemson University, adjacent to the City of Clemson. This garden has nature trails, pathways, ponds, streams, woodlands, trial gardens, The Bob Campbell Geology Museum, and the Fran Hanson Discovery Center, which has exhibits by local ...
1892 map of South America Animation showing geographic evolution of European colonies and breakaway states in South America, 1700 to present Contemporary political map of South America The history of South America is the study of the past, particularly the written record, oral histories, and traditions, passed down from generation to generation ...
The first phase of European colonisation of Southeast Asia took place throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Where new European powers competing to gain monopoly over the spice trade, as this trade was very valuable to the Europeans due to high demand for various spices such as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
The East Region (French: Région de l'Est) occupies the southeastern portion of the Republic of Cameroon. It is bordered to the east by the Central African Republic, to the south by Congo, to the north by the Adamawa Region, and to the west by the Centre and South Regions.