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| 1 | Famagusta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 35.115 / 33.9425 | Famagusta (; ; , or) is a city on the east coast of Cyprus. It is located east of Nicosia and possesses the deepest harbour of the island. During the medieval period (especially under the maritime republics of Genoa and Venice), Famagusta was the island's most important port city and a gateway to (...) | |
| 2 | Nicosia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 160 Lat/Lng : 35.167 / 33.35 | Nicosia is the largest city on the island of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaoria plain, on the banks of the River Pedieos. Nicosia is the capital and seat of government of Cyprus, and as such is the farthest southeast of all EU member states' capitals (...) | |
| 3 | GSZ Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 34.9256 / 33.5997 | GSZ Stadium or Gymnastic Club Zenon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Larnaca, Cyprus.http://www.worldstadiums.com/europe/countries/cyprus.shtml Usually it is referred to as the 'neo GSZ Stadium' to distinguish it from the old GSZ Stadium, which it replaced (...) | |
| 4 | Tianjin ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 39.1167 / 117.1833 | Tianjin , formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the nine national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper (...) | |
| 5 | Odessa ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 46.4857 / 30.7434 | Odessa (also known as Odesa; ; ;) is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center (...) | |
| 6 | Margate ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.3439 / 1.404 | Margate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in Kent, England. It lies north-east of Canterbury, on the coast along the North Foreland and contains the areas of Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook. (...) | |
| 7 | Lufthansa ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
| 8 | Red Army Faction ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 50.0651 / 8.7653 | The Red Army Faction (RAF; German: '),See the section Faction versus Fraktion also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group or Baader-Meinhof Gang , was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. Key early figures included Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof, (...) | |
| 9 | 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -28 Lat/Lng : 47.46 / 53.26 | The 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 20 September and is scheduled to end on 13 December 2018. A total of 48 teams compete in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League. (...) | |
| 10 | London Borough of Haringey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 51.6016 / -0.1129 | The London Borough of Haringey (pronounced , same as Harringay)It is interesting to note that pupils in local schools at the time the borough was created in 1965 were taught that the new borough's name should be pronounced with the ending sounded as in the endings of Finchley, Hackney or Hornsey - (...) | |
| 11 | Kition ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 34.9232 / 33.6308 | Kition (Phoenician: kty; also known by its Latin name Citium) was a city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca). It was established in the 13th century BC.According to the text on the plaque closest to the excavation pit of the Kathari site (as of 2013) (...) | |
| 12 | Ammochostos Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 34.9297 / 33.6131 | Ammochostos Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the temporary home ground of the refugee team from the occupied city of Famagusta, Nea Salamis Famagusta. (...) | |
| 13 | Ajaccio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 41.9433 / 8.7369 | Ajaccio is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the Collectivité territoriale de Corse (capital city of Corsica). It is also the largest settlement on the island. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, southeast of Marseille (...) | |
| 14 | British Forces Broadcasting Service ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 51.5882 / -0.5533 | The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide. Editorial control is independent of the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces themselves (...) | |
| 15 | PAOK Academy ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.9333 / 24.4 | PAOK Academy is the football academy system of Greek professional football club PAOK consisting of eleven official youth teams (Under-6/7, Under-8, Under-9, Under-10, Under-11, Under-12, Under-13, Under-14, Under-15, Under-17 and Under-20), based on the young athletes' age (...) | |
| 16 | January 1915 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -76.5667 / -31.5 | The following events occurred in January 1915: (...) | |
| 17 | Operation Herkules ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 35.8833 / 14.5 | Operation Herkules was the German code-name given to an abortive plan for the invasion of Malta during World War II. Through air and sea landings, the Italians and Germans hoped to eliminate Malta as a British air and naval base and secure an uninterrupted flow of supplies across the Mediterranean (...) | |
| 18 | Black site ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 44.4678 / 26.0459 | In military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted. It can refer to the facilities that are controlled by the CIA and used by the U.S. government in its War on Terror to detain alleged unlawful enemy combatants. U.S. President George W (...) | |
| 19 | Agros, Cyprus ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 973 Lat/Lng : 34.9139 / 33.0208 | Agros is a village built on the Troödos Mountains, in the region of Pitsilia, in southwest Cyprus, which has built amphitheatrically among high mountains at an altitude of 1100 metres with a population of approximately 1,000 (...) | |
| 20 | SS Abukir ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 51.2 / 2.16 | SS Abukir was a British coastal steamship that was launched in 1920 as SS Island Queen and renamed in 1934 as SS Kyle Queen. In 1935 she was renamed Abukir and registered in Egypt. In May 1940 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea while evacuating UK and Belgian soldiers, airmen and civilians (...) | |
| 21 | Cyprus Port and Marine Police ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 186 Lat/Lng : 35.1333 / 33.3667 | The Cyprus Port & Marine Police is the marine police and the civilian Coast Guard wing of the Cyprus Police, and are tasked with the primary mission of law enforcement of the waters around, and control of the sea borders of the Republic of Cyprus (...) | |
| 22 | Timeline of the war in Donbass (July–September 2014) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 166 Lat/Lng : 47.83 / 38.7893 | This is a timeline of the War in Donbass, from July to September 2014. The timeline follows an ongoing conflict between Ukrainian government and anti-government pro-Russian separatists allegedly supported by Russian troops in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. (...) | |
| 23 | Cyprus Mines Corporation ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 35.1389 / 32.8391 | The Cyprus Mines Corporation was an early twentieth century American mining company based in Cyprus. In 1914, Charles G. Gunther began prospecting in the Skouriotissa area after reading in ancient books that the island was rich in copper and noticing promising ancient Roman slag heaps in the area (...) | |
| 24 | Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 34.7281 / 33.2855 | On 11 July 2011, a large amount of ammunition and military explosives that had been stored outdoors for over two years at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base near Zygi, Cyprus, self-detonated, killing 13 people, including the Commander of the Navy, Andreas Ioannides, the base commander and six (...) | |