According to an apocryphal combination of New World and Eurasian elements, Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth when he traveled to what is now Florida in 1513.

In October 2007 the new Right pro-Russian Eurasia Party-affiliated “ Eurasian Youth Union ” vandalized the official Ukrainian state symbols that had been placed on the summit of the Hoverla mountain.

A radical Russian nationalist youth group, the Eurasian Youth Movement, claimed responsibility.

* Eurasian Youth Union

This new group has links with former NBP member Aleksandr Dugin and closely cooperates with the Union of Eurasian Youth, a group of young supporters of Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism.

The Chaosphere has also been adopted by the New Right in Europe and the UK and the Eurasian Youth Union in Russia.

After signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Ribbentrop expanded on this idea for an Axis alliance to include the Soviet Union to form a Eurasian bloc that would destroy maritime states such as Britain.

* Target date for the establishment of the Eurasian Union between Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and possibly Tajikistan.

Other historians, such as the German historian Wolfgang Michalka, the Anglo-German historian H. W Koch and the Israeli historian Martin van Creveld, have contended that Hitler's efforts to form an anti-British Eurasian " continental bloc " that was to include the Soviet Union in late 1940 as a diplomatic prelude to the " Mediterranean plan " were sincere, that until December 1940 Hitler's first priority was in defeating Britain, and that it was only when Hitler gave his approval to Operation Barbarossa that he finally lost interest in the " Mediterranean strategy ".

* Eurasian Union

In September 2006, Carleton was designated a European Union Centre of Excellence by the European Commission in Brussels, and was the first university to offer a BA ( Honours ) in European and Russian Studies and MA in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.

The Economic Cooperation Organization ( ECO ) is an intergovernmental organization involving seven Asian and three Eurasian nations, part of the South-central Asian Union.

The Presidents of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan plan to create a Eurasian Union with a Eurasian Commission in 2015.

Even as independent nations, the former Soviet republics have retained close links with Russia and formed multilateral organizations such as the Eurasian Economic Community, the Union State, the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia and the Eurasian Union to enhance economic and security cooperation.

83 % of Eurasian beavers live in the former Soviet Union thanks to reintroductions, however the result is that beaver in Mongolia or Siberia do not appear significantly genetically different from samples from the European part of Russia, despite the great geographical distance.

The European Union was represented at the ceremony by the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and the Commissioner for Energy Andris Piebalgs, while the United States was represented by the Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar and the Ranking Member of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Senator Richard Lugar.

* ESU — The " Eurasian Solar Union " was formed in 2079.

The party favoures Ukraine's full-scale entry in the Eurasian Economic Community ( including its Customs Union ); the protection of the non-aligned status of Ukraine ; abolition of NATO exercises in Ukraine ; giving the Russian language status as official language along with Ukrainian ; annulment of former President Viktor Yushchenko's decrees on awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine.

The war has degenerated into a stalemate ; the British and Germans continue to bomb each other's cities, while the United States, Soviet Union ( renamed " The Eurasian Union "), and Japan stay out.

The collision with the Eurasian Plate along the modern border between India and Nepal formed the orogenic belt that created the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas.

Art historian Robert Hillenbrand ( 1999 ) likens the movement to the foundation of an " Islamic Rome ", because the meeting of Eastern influences from Iranian, Eurasian steppe, Chinese, and Indian sources created a new paradigm for Islamic art.

The islands are part of a volcanic island arc that includes the Banda Islands, created by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

While in Asia, a new empire was being created under the Iron Fist of the Khans, these Mongol descendants gave themselves a name meant to conjure up an association with a glorious former age: the Eurasian Dynasty ( ED ).

It is created by subduction, in which the Sunda Plate ( part of Eurasian Plate ) is subducting under the Philippine Mobile Belt, producing this almost N-S trending trench.

In addition to the early Rus ', Pritsak's works focused on Eurasian nomads and steppe empires such as those created by the Bulgars, Khazars, Pechenegs, and Kipchaks.

Wetar is part of a volcanic island arc which includes the other Barat Daya Islands and the Banda Islands, created by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

Featuring the album art of S. Neil Fujita, the album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time: 9 / 8, 5 / 4, 3 / 4, and 6 / 4 were used inspired by Eurasian folk music they experienced during that US State Department sponsored tour.

The Alps were formed over hundreds of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided ; the extreme compression caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentation rising and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.

* Azerbaijan, a Eurasian country, designated by the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code

The western part of the empire, Gaul, Iberia, and the Maghreb were invaded by nomadic horse peoples from the Eurasian steppe.

The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe.

These were formed by the ongoing tectonic collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates.

The descent of the Kyrgyz from the autochthonous Siberian population is confirmed on the other hand by the recent genetic studies ( The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity ).

The country's climate is influenced chiefly by the mountains, Kyrgyzstan's position near the middle of the Eurasian landmass, and the absence of any body of water large enough to influence weather patterns.

Delivery of Common Lizards ( Zootoca Lacerta vivipara ) to nests of Eurasian Kestrels ( Falco tinnunculus ) determined by solar height and ambient temperature.

Prey delivery rates as estimates of prey consumption by Eurasian Kestrel ( Falco tinnunculus ).

Their society was more disrupted by the fatalities from epidemics of smallpox and other Eurasian infectious diseases that accompanied contact with Europeans.

The Mediterranean Basin is a depression in the Earth's crust caused by the African Plate slipping under the Eurasian Plate.

Between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, the Bosporan Kingdom, a Hellenistic polity which succeeded the Greek colonies, was also overwhelmed by nomadic invasions led by warlike tribes, such as the Huns and Eurasian Avars.

The metamorphic grade comprises a blueschist facies, which results from tectonic deformation by the subduction of the African Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate.

During the Cenozoic ( Tertiary about 65 to 1. 6 million years ) folding, faulting and uplifting, accompanied by volcanic activity and intrusion of igneous rocks was related to major continental collision between the larger Arabian and Eurasian plates ( e. g. Robertson & Dixon, 1984 ).

The skull-cup allegation may also have some history in relation with other Germanic tribes and Eurasian nomads, such as the Scythians and Pechenegs, and the vivid example of the Lombard Alboin, made notorious by Paul the Deacon's History.

The rabbits are pursued by Eurasian Red Fox ( Vulpes vulpes ), another non-native species introduced intermittently through the twentieth century.

Their reconstruction of MWP pattern is characterised by warmth over large part of North Atlantic, Southern Greenland, the Eurasian Arctic, and parts of North America which appears to substantially exceed that of the late 20th century ( 1961 – 1990 ) baseline and is comparable or exceeds that of the past one-to-two decades in some regions.

Within the very wide range of Eurasian decorative art that includes motifs matching this basic definition the term " arabesque " is used consistently as a technical term by art historians to describe only elements of the decoration found in two phases: Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.

Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc long.

The Slavs, a migratory people from southeastern Europe, were allied by the Eurasian Avars in the 6th century, and together they invaded the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th and 7th centuries, settling in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding lands.

They had enveloped also other ethnic groups by their migration westwards across the Eurasian steppe.

The origin of her name is believed by some like Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops ( πηνέλοψ ) or * pēnelōps (* πηνέλωψ ), glossed by Hesychius as " some kind of bird " ( today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope ), where-elōps (- έλωψ ) is a common pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals ;< ref > Zeno. org lemma relating πηνέλωψ ( gen. πηνέλοπος ) and < χην ( ά ) λοπες >· ὄρνεα ( predators ) ποιά.