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In English, the omission of the definite article ("Crimea" rather than "the Crimea") became common during the later 20th century. [citation needed]The spelling "Crimea" is from the Italian form, la Crimea, since at least the 17th century [3] and the "Crimean peninsula" becomes current during the 18th century, gradually replacing the classical name of Tauric Peninsula in the course of the 19th ...
German-type breakthrough tactics favored by general George S. Patton, commander of the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II were advocated by Creighton Abrams and his devotees U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) commanding generals William E. DePuy and his successor Donn A. Starry.
Before World War I, the German-speaking world used the somewhat-related term Mitteleuropa (from German: Middle Europe) for an area larger than most conceptions of Central Europe, notably encompassing Switzerland among the other German-speaking countries.
Morocco's and Western Sahara's cities and main towns. Coordinates: . Coordinates. Area: total: 446,550 km² land: 446,302 km² (or 712,200 km²) water: 250 km² Area – comparative: Morocco is slightly larger than California; slightly larger than Newfoundland and Labrador; slightly more than half the size of New South Wales province of Australia; slightly less than twice the size of the ...
Vegetation map of Nigeria. Nigeria is covered by three types of vegetation : forests (where there is significant tree cover), savannahs (insignificant tree cover, with grasses and flowers located between trees), and montane land (least common and mainly found in the mountains near the Cameroon border). [ 43 ]