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The ruins of Ulpiana are located 12 km to the south-east of Pristina and the archaeological city is located in the villages Hajvalia, Laplje Selo, and the town of Gračanica. [ 12 ] [ 10 ] Geophysical research made by archaeologists has shown that there are more than 120 hectares worth of objects within the territory of the ancient town. [ 10 ]
Sasol Secunda. Secunda (from Latin: second, secund, secundi meaning second/following) is a town built amidst the coalfields of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.It was named for being the second Sasol extraction refinery producing oil from coal, after Sasolburg, [2] some 140 kilometres (87 mi) to the west.
The coast of Europe is heavily indented with bays and gulfs, as here in Greece. Europe's most significant geological feature is the dichotomy between the highlands and mountains of Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from Great Britain in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.
This quite basically presents the known world in its real geographic appearance which is visible in the so-called Vatican Map of Isidor (776), the world maps of Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John (8th century), the Anglo-Saxon Map (ca. 1000), the Sawley map, the Psalter map, or the large mappae mundi of the 13th ...
Secunda, a variant of the number two (2), may refer to: Secunda (Hexapla), the first known Hebrew-Greek transliteration of The Old Testament, attributed to Author Origen; Secunda, South Africa, a town developed by Sasol fuel company; Rufina and Secunda, Roman virgin-martyrs and Christian saints; Don E. Secunda, founder of U.S. Gas and Electric
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The map is very large – the full frame measures 2.4 by 2.4 metres (8 by 8 ft). This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe. The map is drawn on high-quality vellum and is set in a gilded wooden frame. The large drawings are highly detailed and use a range of expensive colors; blue, red, turquoise ...
Moesia (/ ˈ m iː ʃ ə,-s i ə,-ʒ ə /; [1] [2] Latin: Moesia; Greek: Μοισία, romanized: Moisía) [3] was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River. As a Roman domain Moesia was administered at first by the governor of Noricum as 'Civitates of Moesia and Triballia'. [4]