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| 1 | Abu Dhabi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 24.465 / 54.3659 | Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE's seven emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western (...) | |
| 2 | 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 (...) | |
| 3 | Minsk Ghetto ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 53.9098 / 27.5429 | The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest in Belorussian SSR, and the largest in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union.Donald L. Niewyk, Francis R (...) | |
| 4 | MS Estonia ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 59.3833 / 21.7 | MS Estonia, previously Viking Sally (1980–1990), Silja Star (1990–1991), and Wasa King (1991–1993), was a cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The ship sank in 1994 in the Baltic Sea in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.Boesten, E (...) | |
| 5 | Euromaidan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 50.4506 / 30.5233 | Euromaidan (; , , , literally "Euro Square") was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square") in Kiev (...) | |
| 6 | Europe ![]() FeatureType : continent Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 41.3275 / 19.8186 | Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia (...) | |
| 7 | Early 2012 European cold wave ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 41.8645 / 25.9864 | The early 2012 European cold wave was a deadly cold wave that started on January 27, 2012 and brought snow and freezing temperatures to much of the European continent. There were more than 824 reported deaths in both Europe and North Africa (...) | |
| 8 | Eurovision Song Contest 2003 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 56.9667 / 23.75 | The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the 48th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Riga, Latvia, following Marie N's win at the 2002 contest in Tallinn, Estonia with the song "I Wanna" (...) | |
| 9 | Wargaming (company) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 53.8499 / 27.6943 | Wargaming Group LimitedCyprus Corporate Registry .i-cyprus.com June, 2011. Retrieved September 2016 is a Belarusian multinational game developer and publisher headquartered in Minsk, Belarus. The group operates across 16 offices and development centers (...) | |
| 10 | 2014 Ukrainian revolution ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 50.45 / 30.5242 | The Ukrainian revolution of 2014 (also known as the Euromaidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity; , Revoliutsiia hidnosti) took place in Ukraine in February 2014, when a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters in the capital, Kiev, culminated in the ousting (...) | |