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Sentence Examples Perhaps the most commonly recognized folk dance, the tarantella, for example, is Neapolitan, with little diffusion elsewhere in the peninsula. The need to denuclearize the peninsula and prevent weapons of mass destruction from proliferating are also expected to be pillars of the plan. As mentioned earlier, their reports state that the peninsula was underpopulated and vastly undercultivated. Distance from the likely west coast anchorage to the fortifiable peninsula is about 25 nautical miles. Then the reforms of Kleisthenes formed the basis of the democracy, meaning the rule of the demoi, or village councils of the Athens peninsula. It was headed north toward the Korean Straits between Kyushu and the Korean peninsula. This peninsula also shelters sea lions and sea elephants, whose male members openly struggle to seize their females during the breeding season. All modern Ibero-Romance idioms originated in the north of the Iberian peninsula. Also, records of barbastelles have never been reported from the eastern part of the Crimean peninsula. The Mull of Kintyre proper is the lump of the peninsula south of Campbeltown, with the lighthouse at Machrihanish on its north west. The Tuscan seaport of Piombino, at the south end of a peninsula in the Ligurian Sea, is the nearest point on the mainland to Elba. We went under the Lion's Gate and on to the Vancouver harbour side of the peninsula. Sino-Japanese cooperation will undoubtedly continue to aid in maintaining peace and stability in the Korean peninsula. The coastal terraces of the Perachora peninsula are predominantly constructional. In 711 the peninsula was separated dramatically from the rest of Europe by an invasion of Arabs and Berbers from North Africa. One other effect this had was to cause many Britons to leave these shores for northern Gaul, turning the peninsula of Armorica into Brittany. Outdoor activities may be limited, though, as there isn't a single river in the entire peninsula. He made a huge contribution to the social fabric of society in West Kerry and his unexpected death was a huge shock to the whole peninsula. Locals have rallied behind the push to start a community bank on the Balmain peninsula with almost 30 people registering their interest so far. Beyond, looming into the blackness, reared a dark, heavily forested peninsula, like a giant's outthrust shoulder deflecting the sea's fury. Show More Sentences You might even catch a glimpse of the tule elk that live in the reserve at the northern tip of the Point Reyes peninsula. The ministers recognized the importance of denuclearization of the peninsula in maintaining peace and security in the region. A narrow neck of land at the southeast corner of the peninsula connects it with the adjacent upland. The range of Arctic hares extend south of the peninsula, so there is some overlap between the two species of hares. In general, these new ideas came as a result of an influx of Ionian thinkers into the Attic peninsula. Tree poisoning has again reared its ugly head on the peninsula, with a row of trees in Terry St Balmain repeatedly vandalised. The hotel boasts stunning sea views and lies at the southern extremity of the Sinai peninsula. The carcass of the 27 ft mammal was washed-up and became stuck on rocks at Oxwich Bay in the Gower peninsula. Two miles south of Stonehaven, this impressive ruin sits on a flat peninsula with sheer cliffs on three sides. The road runs the length of a thin peninsula separating the Caribbean Sea from a large saltwater lagoon. Within this treasure trove of biodiversity, the crown jewel is a seven-year-old national park on a peninsula in the northeast corner. Located at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula, Cheju has been shaped by volcanic lava. Or does crisis strike when you have a single outbreak on an isolated peninsula? As long as the country is dreaming of communizing the entire peninsula, sanctions of any kind would not work well. Though he seemed to relish Korea, on April 10 he bought a one-way ticket back to the United States, vowing not to return to the peninsula. Three inhabit Indo-Pacific waters, and one populates the eastern shore of North America, from the Yucatan peninsula to northern Maine. Most of the mainland, however, is a peninsula of mountains, the highest being Olympus. The most westerly point on the British mainland, the peninsula could not be further from China. As an organization, the Black Hand had aspirations to rearrange the whole Balkan peninsula. The peninsula is looped by the Dingle Way, one of Ireland's best waymarked paths. Show More Sentences From these strongpoints, in the 19th and early 20th centuries the British established protectorates over the Malay sultanates on the peninsula. East African hominins may have suffered during dust storms, particularly from particles carried in by winds from the Arabian peninsula. The dried sap of Aloe vera is a traditional remedy used for diabetes in the Arabian peninsula. Abruptly there was an edge with no land, just a dense peninsula of spear-like reeds bursting into the water. The horseshoe-shaped country is in the Balkan peninsula, along the Adriatic coast. Prior to this, the peninsula consisted of often mutually antagonistic kingdoms, duchies, city-states, and principalities. When he did so, on 3 July, he had 10,000 regulars under his command, and within a week he had recaptured the peninsula and taken 6,000 prisoners. At the time the fact that both of my parents had college degrees seemed a small differentiation from the other poor white trash on our peninsula. The riders, although mostly local, did draw supporters from as far afield as Wigan and the Furness peninsula. The Balkan peninsula lies east of Italy and west of Turkey and the Black Sea. This promontory, overlooking the narrow neck joining the peninsula to the mainland, constituted a protected yet strategic location. Other times they're forced out, as the ancient Etruscan language was when Latin speakers overran the Italian peninsula. Rose is running for Sinn Fein and is the only candidate declared on the peninsula and the only woman in the race. The Dee Estuary, the Wirral peninsula and the Welsh borderlands are all within easy access. There is nothing to suggest that in the spring of 1860 Cavour envisaged uniting the whole peninsula of Italy. Endau-Rompin is home to a dozen Sumatran rhinoceroses, the largest known population in the peninsula. Its 25 km long peninsula is lined with luxury hotels and we stayed in one of the newest five-star resorts. Part of that is due to the fact that Umbria is the only landlocked region on the Italian peninsula. Improved road links are crucial to developments in Pembroke Dock and the Angle peninsula. The thing is that although Sinai is surrounded by beautiful water, barely any of the water on the peninsula is drinkable. Show More Sentences At Vithion in its wonderful setting by the sea near the end of the peninsula, there were mignonettes, scarlet tulips and geraniums. Such a development would end the 1953 armistice agreement and accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the peninsula. In the far north-west, the splinter-like peninsula of Lower California, with its high sierras, is a southward extension of the Sierra Nevada. It's an area of tundra and lakes with the volcanic spine of the Alaskan peninsula visible in the distance. Troops were then landed on April 25, the aim being to bisect the peninsula and sever the head of the Turkish resistance. A chain of mountains, the Apennines, juts down the center of the peninsula. Singapore is situated at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula to which it is connected by a causeway carrying a road and railway. Winds were gusty which is why I stopped on the alee side of this low tide peninsula. When we set off, the water was too rough for us to cross to the peninsula on the other side. Just before we descend to the car park, I look out at the bay and a long peninsula of land pointing towards the East. Large-scale Chinese immigration to the Malay peninsula began in the middle of the 19th century. The crescent of land that crowns Michigan's lower peninsula offers perfect topography, soil, views and weather. In the late autumn of 1950, UN forces pushed forward up the peninsula towards the Chinese border. But matters pertaining to the Korean peninsula are rarely simple and straightforward. Cabo Matapalo, at the tip of the peninsula, draws surfers to its famous right point breaks. All is now quiet on the Gallipoli peninsula and the memorial area is preserved as a national park. In mid-winter, the warm water around the Southwest peninsula seems to give them most lightning. To divert Turkish attention, the Royal Naval Division would make a feint attack at Bulair, at the narrow neck of the peninsula. Thus, the two senior commanders on the spot decided on a land campaign to capture the Gallipoli peninsula. At this point a spit of land breaks away from the mainland to become the needle-like peninsula of Baja California. Show More Sentences In the event of victory, the two agreed to the division of the peninsula into four states. The Turkish battleship Turgud Reis manoeuvred in the Dardanelles to disrupt the Anzac landings, firing across the peninsula. Throughout history the peninsula has been colonised by Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Khazars, Genoese and Venetians. Spain occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian peninsula, with Portugal on its western border. The Basques, Europe's oldest surviving group, are also the first identifiable people of the peninsula. Subsequently, the Spanish empire and its Italian dominions formed the dominant pole of both political theory and political practice in the peninsula. The Balkan peninsula is inhabited by a multitude of ethnic groups. Carlos took us an hour west by speedboat to Punta Caracoles, a peninsula jutting out from the national park that teems with bush dogs, tapirs, and other tenacious wildlife. In his novel, he separated the peninsula from the continent, thus permitting the cultural meeting of the peninsular peoples with those from the other side of the Atlantic. As the theory goes, an asteroid, about 10 kilometers in diameter, struck somewhere in what is now the Yucatan peninsula, not far from where the solenodon lives today. But most of them must be delivered from on the peninsula, where Bob is standing, casting a rueful eye on the whole show. The southern California bight region, Baja peninsula and waters offshore of central California are emerging as major regions of bluefin tuna residency. Other forms of kickboxing can be found in the Indo-Chinese peninsula. Still, it won't the the only thing on that peninsula that's becoming a rich person's plaything, judging by the flash cars purring in and out of the yuppie village. The Pelasgians, the extended people of the ancient world, had ruled in ante-historical times not only over Hellada, but over the entire Hem peninsula. But rounding the horn and coming back up the peninsula was another story. Basement rocks crop out along the entire La Hague peninsula in a number of fault-bounded blocks and as thin layers separated by intrusive Cadomian igneous bodies. When the North Korean leader Kim Il Sung approached Stalin and asked for help to reunify the Korean peninsula, Stalin had no reason to suppose that the US would object. The peninsula of Methana is made of lava domes and lava flows. The country held symbolic ground-breaking ceremonies to relink railways and roads through the heavily fortified demilitarized zone splitting the peninsula. Show More Sentences The peninsula is bounded by the Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas. The map affixed to the underside of the top of the box, showing the east and west coastlines of the peninsula joined to create a continuous coast. The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation. At the helm of a giant container ship, the captain says he feels vulnerable as he cruises the busy Singapore Strait at the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula. Hester remains in Boston, and goes to live on a remote peninsula of the town in an abandoned cottage where the land is too sterile to support a family. The peninsula, in effect a half-island appended to Eurasia, is burdened with geographic features that tend to encourage predatory behavior on the part of the great powers. There is relatively little information on trophic relationships among nearshore Antarctic peninsula organisms that inhabit the most productive areas in the Antarctic. It is little coincidence that there are more Messianic congregations tightly packed into the peninsula of South Florida than any other similarly sized region in North America. Intriguing acoustic effects have also been noted at sites in the Americas, from Anasazi kivas in New Mexico, to Chichen Itza on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. If the deal is finalized, the company is expected to gain access to the high-speed fiber-optic cable spanning the Malaysian peninsula up to Thailand. Lisbon is the first of our calls around the Iberian peninsula. I want to denuclearize the peninsula and make it a peaceful place. Traffic volume created problems at the Levens bottleneck, with long tailbacks on the Ulverston Road as traffic poured in and out of the Cartmel peninsula. One of the most problematic wind directions is from the north-east, wiping out many dive sites along the south coast and also on the northern side of the peninsula. On one side of the silver medallion is a raised image of the outline of the crimean peninsula. Located 32 miles from the Utah desert town of Moab, the narrow rock peninsula juts jaggedly into canyon country, 2,000 feet above the Colorado River. The Krym are from the Crimean peninsula of present-day Ukraine. The snap referendum was held two weeks after Russian forces seized the peninsula and blockaded Ukrainian soldiers in their bases. The peninsula is an open area of meadows and wood thickets, bounded to north and south by the Lake. The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens. Show More Sentences Both courses are on a peninsula and as you look over the water, you can see Carnoustie to the north-west and Muirfield in North Berwick to the south-west. Today, the town might not attract the crowds it once did, but the Cowal peninsula is being aggressively hustled by the tourism honchos and they have good cause to do so. Britain was attracted to the Malay peninsula by its vast reserves of tin, and later found that the rich soil was also highly productive for growing rubber trees. However, the topography of the hills in the area indicates that before Quaternary erosion a blanket of easily eroded rocks covered most of the peninsula. The Hebrews were enslaved by the Egyptian pharaohs until 1250 B.C. when their leader, Moses, led them on an exodus out of Egypt to the Sinai peninsula. Argostoli, on a peninsula along the south-west coast, is the main lively town where locals and tourists gather to shop, eat, drink, hang out and people-watch. We stayed on the peninsula for fifteen more years in peace and produced a number of babies, several of them fey, but, as I expected, few with much redactive power. In point of fact, the good times have not yet started to roll in the Black Sea peninsula. Putin mentioned the word before, during the Crimea crises last spring before he annexed the strategic peninsula. The nature of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks which crop out in the peninsula therefore hold important evidence for the Caledonian evolution of the area. Now he could exercise close control over both the battle on the peninsula and preparations for an amphibious counterstroke, now planned for mid-September. The indigenous pre-Buddhist, pre-Confucian, pre-Daoist, and pre-Christian religion of the Korean peninsula seems to have been shamanistic in nature. It's the capital of the Jutland peninsula, on the north-east coast, and is known throughout the country for its old-world charm and picturesque streets. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater of a dormant volcano which now forms a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a low isthmus. About once a week Dylan would come to Vernon's parents' house, situated on the very top of the cliffs of the beautiful Gower peninsula. Lack of water in the Arabian Peninsula prevented the Sabaeans from unifying the entire peninsula. The genus arose some time in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, in the Iberian peninsula and adjacent areas of southwest Europe. But as one travels to the interior of the peninsula, one encounters the slopes and plateaus of the Jebel Harim. The Roman geographers and other prose writers from the time of the late Roman Republic called the entire peninsula Hispania. Other endangered birds making their home in the peninsula include the Chinese egret, black-faced spoonbill, swan goose, and spotted greenshank. Show More Sentences Beginning in the 8th century, the campaign to recapture of the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims was known as the Reconquista. Section Pseudonarcissus, although widely naturalised is endemic to the Baetic Ranges of the south eastern Iberian peninsula. The final section, the Gower coast, is made up of a rugged and serrated peninsula. It is a mystery why this culture flourished so extensively only on the Korean peninsula and its vicinity in Northeast Asia. The peninsula is bounded by the Loughor Estuary to the north and Swansea Bay to the east. The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, including the Etruscans. The 7,900ft Gran Sasso massif is the highest mountain in the Appennine ridge, which runs along the Italian peninsula. But within a few years of Justinian's death, Byzantine possessions in Italy were greatly reduced by the Lombards who settled in the peninsula. According to the comic, the Gaulish village where Asterix lives is in the Armorica peninsula, which is now Brittany. Pembroke is on the south Pembrokeshire peninsula, by the estuary of the River Cleddau. It is located on a peninsula in the Castle Rock Flowage of the Wisconsin River, and it includes land along the Yellow River. In the early 15th century, the countries of the Iberian peninsula began to sponsor exploration beyond the boundaries of Europe. Menominee is located on Michigan's upper peninsula on the Wisconsin border 50 miles north of Green Bay. Gustav killed 15 people on Haiti's deforested southern peninsula, where it dumped 12 inches of rain. He added that all the countries he had visited agreed on the need of denuclearising the Korean peninsula. This severed the land link between the Britons of Wales and those of the south west peninsula. Back in 1990, Roh Tae Woo, South Korea's president at the time, began negotiating with the North to denuclearize the peninsula. It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. The country consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand and Funen. Sea otters are concentrated primarily on the southern end of the peninsula. Show More Sentences From the high plains of North America to the Arabian peninsula, scientists are reading the dunes. We were part way down the peninsula, heading all the way to La Paz, when swarms of scurrying chuckwallas appeared in a rocky area at roadside. Fife is a peninsula, located between the Firth of Tay in the north, the Firth of Forth in the south and the North Sea in the east. Sandpipers, plovers, and yellowlegs hug the coasts or seek protected marshes as they traverse the Florida peninsula. The creatures have grazed on the Knoydart peninsula, in the West Highlands, since the escape of two nanny goats and a billy 25 years ago. The Abbasids built their capital in Baghdad after replacing the Umayyad caliphs from all but the Iberian peninsula. In the sixth century BC, the Carthaginians arrived in the peninsula while struggling with the Greeks for control of the Western Mediterranean. Batman established a base camp at Indented Head, and proceeded to survey the interior of the peninsula. Off the peninsula, similar specimens can be found in smaller numbers, but they are often considerably larger than the Korean dolmens. For example, in the survey conducted by the Canadian Whale Institute in 2006, three whales were detected off the peninsula. The Renaissance arrived in the Iberian peninsula through the Mediterranean possessions of the Aragonese Crown and the city of Valencia. In August 2005, the Royal Navy rescued seven Russians stranded in a submarine off the Kamchatka peninsula. There were numerous mutinies and native wars all over the peninsula and north to the Koryak country of the Penzhina River and Olyutorsky Gulf. In the rest of the Italian peninsula, the amount of non European slaves was definitively much lower than that. The Italian Renaissance had come to an end under the weight of Spanish domination of the peninsula. Uig, the port for ferries to the Outer Hebrides, is on the west of the Trotternish peninsula and Edinbane is between Dunvegan and Portree. In 1755 Stepan Krasheninnikov published the first detailed description of the peninsula, An Account of the Land of Kamchatka. The Italian peninsula was left open to all for the recruitment of soldiers, but in reality, this provision was useless for Antony in the East. The northern peninsula of Trotternish is underlain by basalt, which provides relatively rich soils and a variety of unusual rock features. The Armistice meetings held at Panmunjom from 1951 to 1953 resulted in the cessation of hostilities in the peninsula. Show More Sentences Beyond Loch Snizort to the west of Trotternish is the Waternish peninsula, which ends in Ardmore Point's double rock arch. As a result, the Armorican peninsula was renamed Brittany, Celtic culture was revived and independent petty kingdoms arose in this region. There were a number of Grecian colonies along the eastern coast of the Iberian peninsula, the most notable being the trade emporium of Saguntum. Especially in Germanic studies, continental refers to the European continent excluding the Scandinavian peninsula, Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula. From their base at Kola, they explored the Barents Region and the Kola peninsula, and Novaya Zemlya. The southern cone of South America and Alaskan peninsula of North America are other examples. The Thai-ruled cosmopoleis in the northern half of the peninsula were also known for their intense variety of trading groups. The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall. The peninsula is as large as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined but has fewer than 330,000 inhabitants. Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary, one of the officers of arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon, is named after this peninsula. Precopulatory male ethograms of three species of Lycosa Latreille 1804 of the Iberian peninsula. Strathaird is a relatively small peninsula close to the Cuillin hills with only a few crofting communities, the island of Soay lies offshore. The appearance of secular Hebrew poetry in tenth-century al-Andalus began a tradition that lasted five centuries on the Iberian peninsula. Although Kamchatka is mostly tundra, deciduous and coniferous trees are abundant and forests can be found throughout the peninsula. The Kamchatka peninsula contains the volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. From a small village in the Kathiawar peninsula of western India, the Kamdar family moved to Rangoon where they became prosperous merchants. However, Indian merchants continued to trade in the port cities of the Somali peninsula, which was free from Roman interference. Recent archaeological excavations have revealed the ruins of a cabin in Hafnir on the Reykjanes peninsula. In northern Italy, victory at the Battle of Loano in November gave France access to the Italian peninsula. Show More Sentences Catalonia and Saguntum were now the only areas of the peninsula not in Hannibal's possession. During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, invasions by the neighboring Japanese and Qing Chinese nearly overran the Korean peninsula. Relations with Eritrea are tense due to territorial claims over the Ras Doumeira peninsula. They built 72 dams just on the Iberian peninsula, and many more are known across the Empire, some still in use. Coastal areas are the windiest parts of the peninsula and they receive the most sunshine. This ultramafic rock also forms a very infertile soil which covers the flat and marshy heaths of the interior of the peninsula. By 1814, after scores of battles and sieges throughout Iberia, the Allies had managed to push the French out of the peninsula. Several months after Corunna, the British sent another army to the peninsula under the future Duke of Wellington. We chose the surf, sail and cycle break in Porto Heli, a small and largely unspoilt town on the Argolic peninsula opposite the island of Spetse. I was recently reading an article about autumn fishing in the Ponoi river, which flows through Russia's Kola peninsula. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Ottoman Empire continued to control or have a suzerainty over most of the peninsula. The peninsula is the breeding ground for Steller's sea eagle, one of the largest eagle species, along with the golden eagle and gyr falcon. Santa Fe Energy has a PSA in the Salawati Block on Vogelkop peninsula in Irian Jaya extended in the autumn of 1996 for 20 years. The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Teignmouth is situated on the coast of Devon, a peninsula of South West England. Which Asian peninsula has the Sea of Okhotsk on one side and the Bering Sea on the other? In the Middle Ages the Furness peninsula was controlled by the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of St Mary of Furness, known as Furness Abbey. Striding across the Korean peninsula, Ko Un is a literary giant once described by Allen Ginsberg as a demon-driven bodhisattva. This eventually led Al Thani to rebel against the Ottomans, whom he believed were seeking to usurp control of the peninsula. A COUNCILLOR in Gower says stories about a spooky road on the peninsula could be just a tall tale. Show More Sentences A century later, Ptolemy produced the first known map to depict the peninsula, referring to it as Catara. The United Kingdom and France agreed on the invasion of the Crimean peninsula as the first step. The Wirral's proximity to the port of Chester influenced the history of the Dee side of the peninsula. The peninsula is also home to the eastern brown snake, one of the world's most venomous snakes. Emanating from Southern France, this culture extended into the north of the peninsula. The peninsula is principally divided between Portugal and Spain, comprising most of their territory. Its network of over 950 branches covers most of the Italian peninsula, and there are plans to reinforce the network further. Along the peninsula developmental road, there are small service centres at Lakeland, Laura and Coen. Also in County Down is Strangford Lough, actually an inlet partially separating the Ards peninsula from the mainland. In addition, much of the Iberian peninsula was populated by related Gallic tribes, and those same Gauls were serving in Hannibal's army. On the Gulf of California, the biggest island is the Angel de la Guarda, separated from the peninsula by the deep and narrow Canal de Ballenas. Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The peninsula is a popular tourist destination in the dry season for camping, hiking, birdwatching and fishing enthusiasts. The new seat is almost completely coastal, comprising seaside resorts along the Tendring peninsula. Maldives, the country consisting of a small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, is considered part of the Indian subcontinent. Though culturally and physically similar to the Hebrides, it is separated from them by the Kintyre peninsula. Much of the state of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida. The Cowal peninsula extends into the Firth of Clyde and forms the main upper firth west shoreline. Most of the peninsula is formed by a vast plain with few hills or mountains and a generally low coastline. The Malacca peninsula became the strategic base for Portuguese trade expansion with China and Southeast Asia. Show More Sentences In Arakan, Indian XV Corps under Lieutenant General Philip Christison renewed the advance on the Mayu peninsula. It included land around Swansea Bay as far as the River Tawe, the manor of Kilvey beyond the Tawe, and the peninsula itself. External migrations out of the Iberian peninsula coincided with these episodes of increased persecution by the Inquisition. By 1250, the Emirate was the last part of the Iberian peninsula held by the Muslims. Barbarian invasions brought most of the Iberian peninsula under Visigothic rule by the early 5th century. To meet the demand for plantation labor, these captured Zanj slaves were shipped to the Arabian peninsula and the Near East, among other areas. The Arabian peninsula has long been accepted as the original Urheimat of the Semitic languages by a majority of scholars. Ibn Qatan invited Balj and his Syrian troops, who were at that time in Ceuta, to cross to the Iberian peninsula to fight against the Berbers. A division advanced to Donbaik, only a few miles from the end of the peninsula but was halted by a small but well entrenched Japanese force. The eastern, southern and western coasts of the peninsula are lined with numerous sandy beaches both wide and small, separated by steep cliffs. The Red Sea was formed by the Arabian peninsula being split from the Horn of Africa by movement of the Red Sea Rift. In the 14th century, much of the Greek peninsula was lost by the Byzantine Empire at first to the Serbs and then to the Ottomans. Albanian resistance was a major obstacle to Ottoman expansion on the Italian peninsula. Due to the rivalry of the Italian States, two great coalitions were formed, and foreign intervention in the peninsula was steadily increasing. In 334 BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula from the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Among some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the Illyrians, a people populating the western Balkan peninsula. Bismarck successfully concluded war on Denmark in 1864, which promoted German over Danish interests in the Jutland peninsula. The peninsula was part of the Almohad Caliphate until they were finally uprooted. The Pyrenees mountains are situated along the northeast edge of the peninsula, where it adjoins the rest of Europe. The Tagus is the longest river in the peninsula and, like the Douro, flows westwards with its lower course in Portugal. Show More Sentences Umar defeated the rebellion of several Arab tribes in a successful campaign, unifying the entire Arabian peninsula and giving it stability. Maldives, the small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, is considered part of the Indian subcontinent. Advocates for a northern homeland point to Greek and Roman sources that associate the Cimbri with the peninsula of Jutland. By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary had been conquered and integrated into the Ottoman Empire. During the first stages of Romanization, the peninsula was divided in two by the Romans for administrative purposes. This alliance would not mark the last time in the history of the peninsula that political unity would be sought through religious unity. Due to historic demographic shifts in the Italian peninsula throughout history, modern Italians have mixed origins. Numerous groups of Slavs and Bulgars, pushed by the Khazars, settled in the Italian peninsula between the 7th and the 8th centuries. The Cape Verde islands, to the west of Cape Verde peninsula was the usual first stop for India ships. On the day Alexander was born, Philip was preparing a siege on the city of Potidea on the peninsula of Chalcidice. The majority of the population of the peninsula live in Saudi Arabia and in Yemen. Because its use became limited to the south, the whole peninsula was simply called Arabia. The Taman peninsula remained in the control of the de Ghisolfi family, but the princes of that clan now reported to the Bank. While Moorish rule began to recede, it would remain in parts of the Iberian peninsula for another 760 years. The southern branch of these people was established on the north peninsula of Newfoundland by 5,000 years ago. John's and the Avalon peninsula until the growth of the tourist industry since the late 20th century. The popular dog breed Labrador Retriever is named after the peninsula and thus by effect also bears his name. Punta del Este is situated on a small peninsula off the southeast coast of Uruguay. It appears to be related to languages spoken in Bird's Head peninsula in Papua. The origin of the Kingdom of Portugal lay in the reconquista, the gradual reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors. Show More Sentences Perhaps because the peninsula was uniform in its ecosystem local niche production did not develop. But the British held onto their territory in the eastern portion of the peninsula into the twentieth century. At the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula is the resort town of Cabo San Lucas, a town noted for its beaches and marlin fishing. The entire coral area covers 18 million hectares off a peninsula in northwest New Guinea. The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform. The deeply buried Chicxulub crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. Several regions of origin have been postulated, notably the Iberian peninsula, the Netherlands and Central Europe. Although the various regions are each characterized by distinct vegetation, there are some similarities across the peninsula. The granite rocks that form the peninsula were once continuous with the Tehachapi Mountains 350 miles south. Navy safety personnel used a small monitoring and communications hut on the peninsula for monitoring submarines during these sea trials. To the east and west of the peninsula ridge lie the Carpentaria and Laura Basins, themselves made up of ancient Mesozoic sediments. At the tip of the peninsula lies Cape York, the northernmost point on the Australian continent. Therefore, parts of the peninsula have been noted for their exceptionally high wilderness quality. The peninsula harbours an extraordinary biodiversity, with more than 700 vertebrate land animal species of which 40 are endemic. The story that he sailed completely around the peninsula is probably a legend. The peninsula is traditionally the home of indigenous peoples of Siberia as well as some Russian settlers. Meanwhile, Philip had his eye on uniting the entire Iberian peninsula under his rule, a traditional objective of Spanish monarchs. Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula. Now, Rome effectively dominated the Italian peninsula, and won an international military reputation. The Italian Renaissance had come to an end under the weight of foreign domination of the peninsula. Find more words! 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