In the Paleozoic, 300 – 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern delta of the Neva River was covered by a sea.

The fortress was established by Peter the Great on May 16 ( by the Julian Calendar, hereafter indicated using "( J )"; May 27 by the Gregorian Calendar ) 1703 on small Hare Island by the north bank of the Neva River, the last upstream island of the Neva delta.

* Vasilievsky Island, an island in Saint Petersburg in the delta of the river Neva bordered by the Gulf of Finland

Vasilyevsky Island is an island in St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers ( in the delta of the Neva River ) in the south and northeast, and by the Gulf of Finland in the west.

The smaller group, inhabiting the delta of the Danube and its northern environs, was known as the Peucini.

The presence of Roman forces in the Danube delta was seen as a major threat by all the neighbouring transdanubian peoples: the Peucini Bastarnae, the Sarmatians and, most importantly, by Burebista ( ruled 82-44 BC ), king of the Getae.

Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was once a thriving trading centre between India and China from the 500's until about 1300 AD.

The symbol of fire was a cue pointing towards transformation, the chemical variant being the symbol delta, which is also the classical symbol for fire.

The delta of the Jordan River was formerly a veritable jungle of papyrus and palm trees.

At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary, subsequently filled by silt deposits to form what is now a fertile, fan-shaped delta some 250 km wide at its seaward extremity and extending about 160 km from north to south.

The Teutonic Order's strategy was to move down the Vistula and secure the delta, establishing a barrier between the Prussians and Danzig ( Present day Gdańsk ).

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

In 1994 in collaboration with the University of Patras, a magnetometer survey was carried out in the midplain of the delta, which revealed the outlines of a buried building.

Atta was born on September 1, 1968 in Kafr el-Sheikh, located in Egypt's Nile delta region.

As prices rose for papyrus and the reed used for making it was over-harvested towards local extinction in the two nomes of the Nile delta that produced it, Pergamon adapted by increasing use of parchment.

The active delta was created in 1604 when the city of Venice diverted the main stream, the Po grande or Po di Venezia, from its channel north of Porto Viro to the south of Porto Viro in a channel then called the Taglio di Porto Viro, " Porto Viro cut-off.

Venice, which was originally built on islands off the coast, is most at risk due to subsidence, but the effect is realized in the Po delta as well.

The alpha, beta, delta, epsilon sections are monophyletic, bar the Gammaproteobacteria due to the Acidithiobacillus genus is paraphyletic to Betaproteobacteria, according to multigenome alignment studies, which if done correctly are more precise than 16S ( note that Mariprofundus ferrooxydans sole member of the Zetaproteobacteria was previously misclassified on NCBI taxonomy ).

Construction of the Suez Canal was preceded by cutting a small fresh-water canal from the Nile delta along Wadi Tumilat to the future canal, with a southern branch to Suez and a northern branch to Port Said.

The Dirac delta function as such was introduced as a " convenient notation " by Paul Dirac in his influential 1930 book Principles of Quantum Mechanics.

Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but her most important temples were at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta, and, beginning in the reign with Nectanebo I ( 380 – 362 BCE ), on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt.

The origins of the cult of Isis are uncertain, but it is believed that she was originally an independent and popular deity in predynastic times, prior to 3100 BCE, at Sebennytos in the Nile delta.

For instance, if limited onboard power fed to its engine was the dominant limitation on how much payload a hypothetical spacecraft could shuttle ( such as if intrinsic propellant economic cost was minor from usage of extraterrestrial soil or ice ), ideal exhaust velocity would rather be around 62. 75 % of total mission delta v if operating at constant specific impulse, except greater optimization could come from varying exhaust velocity during the mission profile ( as possible with some thruster types, including mass drivers and variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rockets ).

By the Treaty of Adrianople that concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 the entire Danube delta of was added to the Bessarabian oblast.

By 69, when the Batavians, the original inhabitants of the Rhine and Maas delta, revolted, a village called Oppidum Batavorum had formed near the Roman camp.

Prominent levee systems have been built along the Mississippi River and Sacramento River in the United States, and the Po, Rhine, Meuse River, Rhone, Loire, Vistula, the delta formed by the Rhine, Maas / Meuse and Scheldt in the Netherlands and the Danube in Europe.

Alternatively, the Ria de Aveiro coast ( near Aveiro, referred to as " The Portuguese Venice "), is formed by a delta ( approximately 45 km length and a maximum 11 km width ) rich in fish and sea birds.

The Kerio continues northward, often through deep and narrow valleys, to enter Lake Turkana in a delta just south of the delta formed by the Turkwel and Lokichar rivers.

Accordingly, he goes to a delta of the Achelous river, which was newly formed.

From 1859 – 67, French troops expanded their control over all six provinces on the Mekong delta and formed a colony known as Cochinchina.

Big Delta is at the confluence of the Delta River and the Tanana River and gets it name from the huge river delta formed by the confluence.

In its natural post-glacial state, the river's valley was flat-bottomed, for it had formed the bed of the glacial Lake Ancholme, on an outwash delta as the ice retreated, and consequently fenny.

" Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core ( south of Twelfth Street ) [...] The Greek delta formed by Harrison, Halsted, and Blue Island Streets served as a buffer to the Irish residing to the north and the Canadian – French to the northwest.

A river delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir.

In a tidal delta, new distributaries are formed during times when there's a lot of water around – such as floods or storm surges.

A Gilbert delta ( named after Grove Karl Gilbert ) is a specific type of delta that is formed by coarse sediments, as opposed to gently-sloping muddy deltas such as that of the Mississippi.

Upon entering Lake Øyeren at Fetsund, the Glomma has formed Europe's largest inland delta which reaches the opposite side of the lake, across its short axis.

The inland river delta that has formed is the largest in Europe and reaches the opposite shore of the lake, across its short axis.

For example, a river mouth delta is formed by deposition of sediment carried by the stream as the river current diminishes upon encountering the sea.

The name in the Dene language originally referred only to the large delta formed by the confluence the Athabasca River at the southwest corner of the lake.

The inverted delta was formed by the floods of Swina River in the area of Wolin National Park in 1996.

Two great continental watersheds drained into it from east and west, diluting its waters and bringing resources in eroded silt that formed shifting delta systems along its low-lying coasts.

The Nile Delta () is the delta formed in Northern Egypt ( Lower Egypt ) where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Okavango Delta ( or Okavango Swamp ), in Botswana, is a large inland delta, formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.

Chief ’ s Island, the largest island in the delta, was formed by a fault line which uplifted an area over 70 km long and 15 km wide.