The spirit served chiefly to lull the West while Moscow made inroads into the Middle East.

The episode has been traditionally interpreted as a paroxysm of anti-barbarian reaction that served to stabilize the East.

It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when soldiers from Athy, County Kildare served the British East India Company.

It later served as an inspiration to Christian monastics in both the East and the West.

After the Second World War, manufacturers in Europe and the Far East, such as Mercedes-Benz buses and Mitsubishi Fuso expanded into other continents influencing the use of buses previously served by local types.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

* 10 Metropolises, out of which 7 Metropolises are in Egypt, 1 Metropolis in the Near East and 2 Metropolises are in Europe ; served by 4 Metropolitan Archbishops and 4 Metropolitan Bishops, while 2 Metropolis remain vacant ; out of the 8 Hierarchs, 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in the Near East, 2 in Metropolitan Archbishops are in Egypt and 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in The United Kingdom, while all 4 Metropolitan Bishops are in Egypt.

Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy, had previously served as political and military adviser of East Pakistan to former President Ayub Khan.

Admiral Shariff served as the deputy unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East Pakistan.

LaGuardia, running as a Republican, won a seat in Congress from the Italian stronghold of East Harlem in 1922 and served in the House until March 3, 1933.

He then served with the East India Company as a midshipman on a ship bound for Calcutta.

North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas.

Rhodesians served on behalf of the United Kingdom during World War II, mainly in the East African Campaign against Axis forces in Italian East Africa.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

The Portuguese presence in East Africa served the purpose of controlling trade within the Indian Ocean and securing the sea routes linking Europe to Asia.

Login was a surgeon in the British Army who served in West Bengal, East India for some years and was a native of Southend, Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

The area, formerly part of the region known as Greater Syria, served as a link between the Mediterranean world and India and East Asia.

Both men served in the Middle and Far East, the younger especially in India.

As of September 2008, approximately 600 NZDF personnel served overseas in the South Pacific, Asia and Middle East areas.

The Nigeria Police Force and troops have served in places like UNIPOM ( UN India-Pakistan Observer mission ) 1965, UNIFIL in Lebanon 1978, the UN observer mission, UNIIMOG supervising the Iran-Iraq ceasefire in 1988, former Yugoslavia 1998, East Timor 1999, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUC ) 2004.

Orient House (; bayt ʾal-šarq ) is a building located in East Jerusalem that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the 1980s and 1990s.

From the communist era Poland inherited an underdeveloped and outmoded system of telephones, with some areas ( e. g. in the extreme South East ) being served by manual exchanges.

After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.

The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.

In Western Africa and Central Africa, crossbows served as a scouting weapon and for hunting, with the Spanish bringing the technology to America.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

He studied law at Columbia University in New York City but his education was interrupted by service with the United States Navy in World War II during which he served with American amphibious forces in Europe and North Africa.

Oyo, as a northern Yoruba kingdom, served as middle-man in the north-south trade and connecting the eastern forest of Guinea with the western and central Sudan, the Sahara, and North Africa.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Redeployed to northern Africa the unit began to see success, continuing with actions in Italy, Austria, Germany and in the Battle of Greece and Crete ( where its 9th Battalion, The Rangers ( TA ), served with 1st Armoured Brigade Group ).

Liberia became again an important Cold War ally of the U. S .. Liberia served to protect important U. S. facilities and investments, and to counter the perceived spread of Soviet influence in Africa.

Later served as the capital of the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa, before being destroyed by the Arabs after its capture in AD 697.

In retirement Fraser served as Chairman of the UN Panel of Eminent Persons on the Role of Transnational Corporations in South Africa 1985, as Co-Chairman of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa in 1985 – 86, and as Chairman of the UN Secretary-General's Expert Group on African Commodity Issues in 1989 – 90.

The Great Mosque of Kairouan, which is one of the most significant and best preserved examples of early Islamic mosques, served due to its architectural characteristics as a model to many later mosques especially in north Africa and Al-Andalus.

Between 1822 and 1824, she served in the West Africa Squadron ( or ' Preventative Squadron ') chasing down slave ships, capturing at least two.

Dávila was a veteran soldier who had served in the wars against the Moors at Granada and in North Africa.

Typical " Pub Grub " served at a Portuguese pub in Johannesburg, South Africa

By October, he was en route to South Africa to join, the flagship of the Cape squadron, the first of several ships on which he served during his midshipman years.

Sierra Leone also served as the educational centre of British West Africa.

The Africa Endeavour programme pioneered by the United States of Africa Command ( AFRICOM ) has however served an eye opener to our communications need both within and out.