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The name "Tmogvi" is derived from the Armenian word mog, meaning "pagan priest" or "magus". [1] The fortress is first mentioned in sources from the 9th century. [1] It was built as a defensive work controlling the ancient trade route between the Javakheti plateau and the gorge of Kura, over a gorge formed by the Kura River.
Thunder River is a river entirely within the Grand Canyon National Park.It flows southeast from its source near the North Rim of the canyon to Tapeats Creek.The 0.5-mile-long (0.80 km) river is one of the shortest in the United States, [a] and drops approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) over a series of waterfalls, making it the steepest river in the country.
The fortress' primary viaduct was a terra cotta pipeline that had been laid 4 to 5 kilometres (2.5 to 3.1 mi) from the fortress to dammed reservoirs which collected sources of spring water from higher elevations and melting snow. In the event that the fortress was under attack, it was likely that the pipeline would be destroyed.
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay, within the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It protects an estimated 116 historically significant shipwrecks ranging from nineteenth-century wooden side-wheeler paddle steamers to twentieth ...
On some old maps, Michipicoten Island is shown as Isle Maurepas, after the French minister of Marine Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas. [13] The word Michipicoten is an Anglicization of the original Ojibwe word Mishipikwadina, meaning "big bluffs" in Ojibwe, and is a reference to the geography of the nearby Michipicoten River. [14]
The Isle (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Eila) is a 255-kilometre (158 mi) long river in south-western France, right tributary of the Dordogne. [1] Its source is in the north-western Massif Central, near the town Nexon (south of Limoges). It flows south-west through the following départements and towns: Haute-Vienne: Le Chalard
The Fisher Ridge Cave System is a cave system located in Hart County, Kentucky, United States, near Mammoth Cave National Park. As of November 2019 it had been mapped to a length of 130.001 miles (209.216 km), making it the fifth-longest cave in the United States and the tenth-longest in the world .
The Marine or Sea Gate (Πύλη Θαλασσινή) was the main entrance to the town from the harbour. Its defensive towers have a representative task more than defence in facts due to the reduced space between the waterfront and the walls no army could have ever attempted an attack from this side of the fortifications.