WebThe earliest traces of the human occupation in the Levant are documented in Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley of the Southern Levant (modern-day Israel).The site was dated to c. 1.4 million years ago, but further research has fixed its chronological context to 1.5–1.2 million years ago. The site yielded stone tools typical of the Acheulean industry which appears in East …

WebEven though the faith originally developed out of Isma'ilism, the Druze are not Muslims. The Druze faith is one of the major religious groups in the Levant, with between 800,000 and a million adherents.They are found primarily in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, with small communities in Jordan.They make up 5.5% of the population of Lebanon, 3% of Syria …

WebNorth Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographical terms and is coextensive with the Asian part of Russia, and consists of three Russian regions east of the Ural Mountains: Ural, Siberia, and the Russian Far East.. Topographically, the region is dominated by the Eurasian Plate, except for its …

WebThe Zagros mountains then became a natural barrier and border between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sassanid Empire. Owing to continuous raids by Persians into the area, Caliph Umar ordered a full invasion of the Sasanian Iranian empire in 642, which was completed with the complete conquest of the Sasanians around 651 The quick conquest …

WebLorestan Province (also written Luristan, Lurestan, or Loristan, Persian: استان لرستان) is a province of western Iran in the Zagros Mountains.The population of Lorestan was 1,760,649 people in 2016, according to the last conducted census. In 2014 it was placed in Region 4.. Lorestan covers an area of 28,392 km 2.The major cities in this province are …

WebContemporary languages. The most widely spoken language in Iraq is the Arabic language (specifically Mesopotamian Arabic); the second most spoken language is Kurdish (mainly Sorani and Kurmanji dialects), followed by the Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman dialect of Turkish, and the Syriac (referring to Neo-Aramaic languages, specifically: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, …

WebMount Ararat is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey.It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat.Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian Highland with an elevation of 5,137 m (16,854 ft); Little Ararat's elevation is 3,896 m (12,782 ft). The Ararat massif is about 35 …

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WebThe Iraqi dinar (Arabic pronunciation: [diːˈnɑːr]) (Arabic: دينار; sign: ID in Latin, د.ع in Arabic; code: IQD) is the currency of Iraq.It is issued by the Central Bank of Iraq and is subdivided into 1,000 fils (فلس), although inflation has rendered the fils obsolete since 1990. On 16 October 2022, the exchange rate with the US Dollar was US$1 = 1460.1 dinars.

WebTectonic plate interactions are classified into three basic types:. Divergent boundaries are areas where plates move away from each other, forming either mid-ocean ridges or rift valleys.These are also known as constructive boundaries. Convergent boundaries are areas where plates move toward each other and collide. These are also known as …

WebAspetto autunnale di una foresta di latifoglie, nel Cansiglio. Le foreste di latifoglie e foreste miste temperate sono un bioma terrestre definito dalla lista Global 200 del WWF; corrisponde alla foresta decidua temperata di altri autori.. È un bioma tipico della zona temperata, con ecoregioni che ospitano foreste di latifoglie e altre che ospitano foreste …

WebA 2020 genetic analysis has found that the Bronze Age Canaanite population descended from earlier local Neolithic populations together with populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros Mountains and the Bronze Age Caucasus. According to the researchers, this mixture is probably the result of a continuing migration from the Zagros and/or ...

WebOct 19, 2022 · Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company’s mobile gaming efforts. Microsoft is quietly building a mobile Xbox store that will rely on Activision and King games.

WebThe Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, or more recently and rarely the Tethyan orogenic belt, is a seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) along the southern margin of Eurasia, stretching from Java and Sumatra, through the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas …