Disraeli was, according to some interpretations, a supporter of the expansion and preservation of the British Empire in the Middle East and Central Asia.

During his travels in Asia, Xavier learned martial arts, acquiring " refined combat skills " according to Magneto.

It was written, according to the text, by Paul the Apostle to the Church in Colossae, a small Phrygian city near Laodicea and approximately 100 miles from Ephesus in Asia Minor.

( e. g. ) During the period of the monarchy, it was the widespread practice in western Asia to use era year numbers according to the accession year of the monarch of the country involved.

The Greek Kingdom and the Greek diaspora in the Balkans and western Asia Minor, according to a 1919 map submitted to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 | Paris Peace Conference.

As for other methods used in China, the technique of scratching the skin and putting pox onto the scab seems to have developed later than the first accounts made in China, and possibly came from Central Asia — according to Temple.

Irenaeus was born during the first half of the 2nd century ( the exact date is disputed: between the years 115 and 125 according to some, or 130 and 142 according to others ), Irenaeus is thought to have been a Greek from Polycarp's hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey.

In the article it states " On Sept. 9, according to a secret CIA summary of the interview, al-Faruq confessed that he was, in fact, al-Qaeda's senior representative in Southeast Asia.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

The growth of traffic between Europe and Asia is an additional opportunity ; more than 6, 000 km of international communication cables were built during the first nine months of 2007, representing a 48. 5 % increase on 2006, according to the Russian Ministry of Communication and Mass Media.

In South Asia, the formation is known as Rama's Bridge, as, according to Hindu mythology, it was constructed during the rule of Rama.

The Taj Mahal is the most notable example of Islamic architecture in South Asia it was constructed according to the commands of the famous Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

In some parts of the world, particularly in Latin American countries and in East Asia, yankee or yanqui ( the same word spelled according to Spanish orthography ) is sometimes associated with anti-Americanism and used in expressions such as " Yankee go home " or " we struggle against the yanqui, enemy of mankind " ( words from the Sandinista anthem ).

The name " chalcedony " comes from the Latin calcedonius, the word used to translate the Greek word khalkedon, found only once, in the Book of Revelation ; according to the OED a connection with the town of Chalcedon in Asia Minor is " very doubtful ".

Historic crop rotation methods are mentioned in Roman literature, and referred to by several civilizations in Asia and on three major elements: sophisticated systems of crop rotation, highly developed irrigation techniques and the introduction of a large variety of crops which were studied and catalogued according to the season, type of land and amount of water they require.

Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.

By 2025, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia alone will have at least 10 megacities, including Mumbai, India ( 33 million ), Shanghai, China ( 27 million ), Karachi, Pakistan ( 26. 5 million ), Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 26 million ) and Jakarta, Indonesia ( 24. 9 million people ).

The earliest evidence of a xylophone is from the 9th Century in southeast Asia according to the Vienna Symphonic Library, and there is a model of a similar hanging wood instrument, dated to ca.

The strait derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arab legend, from the numbers who were drowned by the earthquake which separated Asia and Africa.

By 1035 the Byzantines had pushed the Arabs out of Asia Minor, and Harald took part in campaigns that went as far east as the Euphrates, where according to the skald Þjóðólfr Arnórsson ( recounted in the sagas ) he participated in the capture of eighty Arab strongholds, a number which historians Sigfus Blöndal and Benedikt Benedikz see no particular reason to question.

In 2011, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, it ranked as the 28th wealthiest urban agglomeration in the world and the 2nd in Southeast Asia.

In 2011, The New York Times ranked Fudan University as the 34th universities in the world according to a survey of chief executives and chairmen of leading companies, and the second in Asia.

On the other hand, according to the classification from International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) before April 2004, all the countries of Eastern Europe ( including Central European countries which still belongs to " Eastern Europe Group " in the UN institutions ) as well as the former Soviet Union ( USSR ) countries in Central Asia ( Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan ) and Mongolia, were not included under either developed or developing regions, but rather were referred to as " countries in transition "; however they are now widely regarded ( in the international reports ) as " developing countries ".

The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi with the-m plural, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite Ahhiyā ( wa ), which is, according to most interpretations, the " Achaean ", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor.

Although Lycos Europe remains the largest of Lycos's overseas ventures, several other companies also entered into joint venture agreements including Lycos Canada, Lycos Korea and Lycos Asia.

A joint statement of the member countries of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation issued in early July, 2005 on a conference in Astana ( Kazakstan ) called for a withdrawal of US troops from military bases in Central Asia.

In Asia, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration.

From its 2007 acquisition of 100 percent ownership of H3C Technologies Co., Limited ( H3C ) — initially a joint venture with China-based Huawei Technologies — 3Com achieved a leading market presence in China, and a significant networking market share in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

* 1936 – Marketing operations east of Suez ( including Asia, East Africa, and Australasia ) are placed into a joint venture with Standard Oil Company of California – Socal ( Chevron ) under the brand name Caltex, in exchange for Socal placing its Bahrain refinery and Arabian oilfields into the venture.

During the early Byzantine – Arab Wars the Arab armies attempted to invade southeast Europe via Asia Minor during the late seventh and early eighth centuries, but were defeated at the siege of Constantinople by the joint forces of Byzantium and the Bulgars.

Rank Xerox was formed in 1966 as a joint venture between the Xerox Corporation of U. S. ( aka Haloid Photographic ) and the Rank Organisation of UK, to manufacture and market Xerox equipment initially in Europe and later in Africa and Asia.

In August 1990, Fort Hood was alerted for deployments to Southwest Asia as part of the joint forces participating in Operation Desert Shield.

In 1989, Carrefour became the first international retailer to establish a presence in Asia when it entered Taiwan through a joint venture with Uni President Enterprises Corporation.

** Agfa Graphics and Shenzhen Brothers create the Agfa Graphics Asia joint venture to reinforce their position in the Greater China and ASEAN region.

The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, Americas and Africa.

* Macau: Veolia invested in a joint venture with RATP Asia and created Reolian Public Transport Co .. Services began August 1st, 2011 and is operating two of five groupings of routes, also to be the more important arterial routes of the city.

* Asia Pacific College, a joint venture between IBM Philippines and the SM Foundation

In December 2000 Carlsberg and Chang established a 50 / 50 joint venture, Carlsberg Asia, with the vision to create a significant brewing company in Asia.

CNBC's international channels were then merged into a 50-50 joint venture with their Dow Jones-owned rivals, London-based EBN ( European Business News ) and Singapore-sited ABN ( Asia Business News ) in 1998, while ratings grew on the U. S. channel until the new millennium's dot-com bubble burst in 2000.

The Operational Command was joint Allied South East Asia Command in the South-East Asian Theater The American General Joseph Stilwell commanded the operational Northern Combat Area Command and used his other positions to communicate directly with Joint Chiefs of Staff about some operational matters.

In 2003 the Global Environment Facility approved funds for a UNEP-UNDP joint project for methyl bromide total sector phase out in seven countries in Central Europe and Central Asia, due for completion in 2007.

Next Media has ceased to hold any shares of these three magazines in the end of 2008 and the editorial affair of these magazines has tied-up with TVB Weekly ( the official magazine of Television Broadcasts Limited and owned by a joint venture between Malaysian media conglomerate company Astro All Asia Networks plc ( Astro ) and Albert Yeung's Emperor Group ) in early 2009.

In 1492, the joint rulers of the country decided to fund Christopher Columbus ' expedition that they hoped would bypass Portugal's lock on Africa and the Indian Ocean, and instead, reach Asia by travelling west over the Atlantic.

The group ’ s expansion into Asia started with its 1995 negotiation of joint control of the second-largest brewery in mainland China with China Resources, a privatisation arm of the government of the People's Republic of China.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ( officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408 ) was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135 and the destroyer on August 2 and an alleged second naval engagement between North Vietnamese boats and the U. S. destroyers USS Maddox and on August 4 in the Tonkin Gulf ; both naval actions are known collectively as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

After fewer than nine hours of committee consideration and floor debate, Congress voted, on August 10, 1964, on a joint resolution authorizing the president " to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom ".

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" While we are celebrating one of the greatest successes for FAO and its partners, I wish to remind you that this extraordinary achievement would not have been possible without the joint efforts and strong commitments of governments, the main organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe, and without the continuous support of donors and international institutions ", FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf commented.