The Byzantine navy was the naval force of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire.Like the empire it served, it was a direct continuation from its Imperial Roman predecessor, but played a far greater role in the defence and survival of the state than its earlier iteration.While the fleets of the unified Roman Empire faced few great naval threats, operating as a policing force vastly …

Brian Michael Levant (born August 6, 1952) is an American filmmaker. Early life and career. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, Levant started his career in 1976 as a writer for the TV series Happy Days. He also wrote for, among other TV shows, The Jeffersons, Mork & Mindy and Still the Beaver. He is best known for directing ...

Un pont levant désigne généralement un pont dont le tablier est mobile et peut être levé à l'horizontale. Exemples de ponts levants. Pont de la rue de Crimée à Paris (ouvert en 1885) ; Pont ... Wikipedia® est une marque déposée de la Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., ...

Soleil levant (Rising Sun) est un thriller américain réalisé par Philip Kaufman, sorti en 1993. Le film met en vedette Sean Connery (également producteur délégué du film), Wesley Snipes , Harvey Keitel et Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa .

Le pont de Recouvrance est un pont levant qui franchit la Penfeld, à Brest, Finistère.Dominant l'arsenal et le port militaire, il relie le bas de la rue de Siam au quartier de Recouvrance, en remplacement du pont tournant (pont National) détruit en 1944 par les bombardements alliés. Inauguré le 17 juillet 1954, il fut longtemps le plus grand pont levant d’Europe.

Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: ???????? Sura/i; Greek: Συρία) or Sham (Arabic: ٱلشَّام, romanized: ash-Shām) is the name of a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant. Other synonyms are Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine. The region boundaries have changed throughout history. In modern times, the term "Syria" alone is ...

Geographie. Die Île du Levant liegt vor der französischen Mittelmeerküste bei Toulon.Sie liegt ostwärts der Insel Port-Cros mit einer Breite von durchschnittlich einem Kilometer und einer Länge von circa acht Kilometer von Südwest nach Nordost.Der höchste Punkt der Insel liegt auf 138 m.Sie ist von Hyères und Le Lavandou aus mit der Fähre erreichbar.

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were people who lived throughout the ancient Near East, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity.. Their languages are usually divided into three branches: East, Central and South Semitic languages.The Proto-Semitic language …

Amun and Amaunet are mentioned in the Old Egyptian Pyramid Texts. The name Amun (written imn) meant something like "the hidden one" or "invisible".. Amun rose to the position of tutelary deity of Thebes after the end of the First Intermediate Period, under the 11th Dynasty.As the patron of Thebes, his spouse was Mut.In Thebes, Amun as father, Mut as mother and the …

The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: فَتْحُ الشَّام, romanized: Feth eş-Şâm), also known as the Rashidun conquest of Syria, occurred in the first half of the 7th century, shortly after the rise of Islam. As part of the larger military campaign known as the early Muslim conquests, the Levant was brought under the rule of the Rashidun Caliphate and developed into the ...

The Tel Dan Stele shows an historical "House of David" ruled a kingdom south of the lands of Samaria in the 9th century BC, and attestations of several Judean kings from the 8th century BC have been discovered, but they do little to indicate how developed the state actually was. The Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name "Judah" …

The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية­ – ولاية خراسان; ISKP) is an affiliate of the Islamic State militant group active in South Asia and Central Asia.Some media sources also use the terms ISK (or IS–K), ISISK (or ISIS–K), IS–KP, Daesh–Khorasan or Daesh–K in referring to the group. ISKP has been active in Afghanistan, Pakistan ...

The Volga (/ ˈ v ɒ l ɡ ə, ˈ v oʊ l ɡ ə /; Russian: Во́лга) is the longest river in Europe.Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea.The Volga has a length of 3,531 km (2,194 mi), and a catchment area of 1,360,000 km 2 (530,000 sq mi) which is more than twice the size of Ukraine.It is also Europe's largest river in terms of ...

Haplogroup J-M267, also commonly known as Haplogroup J1, is a subclade (branch) of Y-DNA haplogroup J-P209 (commonly known as haplogroup J) along with its sibling clade haplogroup J-M172 (commonly known as haplogroup J2). (All these haplogroups have had other historical names listed below. [Phylogenetics 1] [Phylogenetics 2]) Men from this lineage share a …