Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

Next we imagine our blizzard raging over all the land areas of the entire globe -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, all covered with peas four feet deep ; ;

`` The Forgotten War '' his soldiers called the Burma fighting because the war in Africa and Europe enjoyed priorities in equipment and in headlines.

Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.

To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

The ornithology of northern Africa presents a close resemblance to that of southern Europe, scarcely a species being found which does not also occur in the other countries bordering the Mediterranean.

Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez ( which is transected by the Suez Canal ), wide.

As one of the waterways and ancient highways, for centuries the road led from Europe to Asia and back, and from northern Africa to the Baltic Sea.

However, there have been many wild claims of ancient mid eastern ancestry ( including Assyrian ) throughout Europe, Africa and even the Americas, none of which have been supported by mainstream opinion or strong evidence, let alone proof.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

The aurochs ( or ; also urus, ( Bos primigenius ), the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa ; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.

Since its opening, Lajes Field has been used for refuelling American cargo planes bound for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

The airfield also has a small commercial terminal handling scheduled and chartered passenger flights from the other islands in the Azores, Europe, Africa, and North America.

country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )

Bluetongue has been observed in Australia, the USA, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

They entered Europe about 250, 000 years ago, and North Africa shortly after.

Artifacts such as bowls, rock carvings and sacred statues with breasts have been recorded from 15, 000 BC up to late antiquity all across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

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Andorra is a full member of the United Nations ( UN ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), International Criminal Court ( ICC ), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property ( ICCROM ), International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ), International Red Cross, Universal Copyright Convention, Council of Europe, EUTELSAT, World Tourism Organization, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), Customs Cooperation Council ( CCC ), and Interpol.

As a technical matter, DBS ( also known by the International Telecommunication Union as Broadcasting Satellite Service, or BSS ) refers only to services transmitted by satellite in specific frequency bands: 11. 7-12. 2 GHz in ITU Region 3 ( Asia, Australia ), 10. 7-12. 75 GHz in ITU Region 1 ( Europe, Russia, Africa ), and 12. 2-12. 7 GHz ITU Region 2 ( North and South America ).

In Europe, each country is allocated a number of frequencies on which high power ( up to 2 MW ) can be used ; the maximum power is also subject to international agreement by the International Telecommunication Union ITU.

Long wave is only used for radio broadcasting in ITU region 1 ( Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia ), and is not allocated elsewhere.

In Europe, Africa and large parts of Asia ( ITU Region 1 ), where a range of frequencies between 148. 5 and 283. 5 kHz is used for AM broadcasting ( in addition to the medium wave band ), the term longwave usually refers specifically to this broadcasting band.

The division between Europe and the other regions is the root of the different RF allocations in the ITU Radio Regulations, and standards around the world.

The national plan was developed using technical criteria and the Region 1 ( Europe, Africa and the Middle East ) allotment plan that was developed years before by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), a United Nations treaty organization.

An ITU conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 7, 1984, resolved to discontinue the use of 50 kHz channel spacings throughout Europe.

The 2-meter amateur radio band is a portion of the VHF radio spectrum, comprising frequencies stretching from 144. 000 MHz to 148. 000 MHz in International Telecommunication Union region ( ITU ) Regions 2 ( North and South America plus Hawaii ) and 3 ( Asia and Oceania ) and from 144. 000 MHz to 146. 000 MHz in ITU Region 1 ( Europe, Africa, and Russia ).

The International Telecommunications Union allocated the frequencies from 1810-2000 KHz to amateur radio operations in ITU Region 1 ( Europe, Greenland, Africa, the Middle East west of the Persian Gulf and including Iraq, the former Soviet Union and Mongolia ) and 1800-2000 kHz in the rest of the world.

In Europe, and generaly in ITU Region 1, the LowFER frequency range ( 160-190 kHz ) is used for broadcasting and is unavailable for two-way communications use.

His contribution in TV Ratings methodology in Europe has been recognised by ITU / EBU in 1996 at Geneva.

His contribution in TV Ratings methodology in Europe has been recognised by ITU / EBU in 1996 at Geneva.

Whilst not formally allocated at an ITU or Regional level, in Europe CEPT now recognises the increased access to 70 MHz by radio amateurs with footnote ' EU9 ' which has helped underpin further growth:

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.

Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

Monasticism had been introduced into the region of modern France during the Roman era by St. Martin of Tours, who founded the first monastery in Western Europe.

The Balkans ( turkish balkan = „ mountains or forrest mountains “), often referred to as the Balkan Peninsula, and recently also as " Southeast Europe ", although none of the three are coterminous, is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe.

Central Europe, sometimes referred to as Middle Europe, is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe.

Widespread interest in the region itself and the term itself was re-discovered by the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half.

Germany's Constant Committee for Geographical Names defines Central Europe both as a distinct cultural area and a political region.

George Schöpflin and others argue that Central Europe is defined by being " a part of Western Christianity ", while Samuel P. Huntington places the region firmly within Western culture.

According to the majority of sources ( see section Current views on Central Europe for some ) the region includes:

Work has begun — bilaterally and within the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe since 1999 — on political and economic cooperation in the region.

Currently, the Convention's priority activities include review and possible revision of its most recent protocols, implementation of the Convention and its protocols across the entire UNECE region ( with special focus on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and South-East Europe ) and sharing its knowledge and information with other regions of the world.

For example, the Americas and Europe are considered part of Christendom, but this region is further subdivided into the West ( representing the North Atlantic ) and Latin America.

* Council of Europe, an international organization of 47 member states in the European region

According to Gella, kingdoms in this region of Europe were in constant threat of invasion.

Catharism (; from, katharos, pure ) was a name given to a Christian religious movement with dualistic and gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France and other parts of Europe in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries.

It consists of various national-level political parties in Europe advocating either full political independence ( statehood ), or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region.

There is some evidence that an El Niño may cause a wetter, cloudier winter in Northern Europe and a milder, drier winter in the Mediterranean Sea region.