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The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea c. 5600 BC due to waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosporus Strait. The hypothesis was headlined when The New York Times published it in December 1996, shortly before it was published in an academic journal . [ 89 ]
Georgia [c] is a country in Eastern Europe and West Asia. [13] [14] [15] It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, Russia to the north and northeast, Turkey to the southwest, Armenia to the south, and Azerbaijan to the southeast.
Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the Ottoman Empire.
Dzharylhach Island - the largest one in the Black Sea (56 km 2) Kalanchak Islands , Oyster Islands and others in the Karkinit Bay, east of Dzharylhach; Nova Zemlya (Нова Земля) - divided with Romania; Orlov Island , Yahorlyk Islands, Siberian Islands, Babyn Island and a few others in the Gulf of Tendra; Snake Island
Russian Black Sea Fleet units went on combat alert. [65] Ukrainian navy put Odessa base and Black Sea Fleet river patrol unit under its own control. [66] These incidents alarmed both sides and on 12 April 1994, the negotiations resumed, with Russia being given nominal 80-85% share in exchange for undisclosed compensation for Ukraine.
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Black Sea Euroregion (Bulgarian: Черноморски еврорегион, transcript. Chernomorski evroregion , Romanian : Euroregiunea Mării Negre ) is a seaside Euroregion , located in Bulgaria and Romania .