Through close contacts with the Arabian peninsula for more than one-thousand years, the Somali and Afar ethnic groups in this region became among the first on the African continent to adopt Islam.

The Greek language ultimately dominated the peninsula and Greece's mosaic of small city-states became culturally similar.

In the first millennium CE Malay's became the dominant race on the peninsula.

Starting with the Renaissance Italian became the language used in the courts of every state in the peninsula.

Rice became the grain of choice during the Three Kingdoms period, particularly in the kingdoms of Silla and Baekje in the southern regions of the peninsula.

Under Liutprand, the Catholicism became real as the king sought to justify his title rex totius Italiae by uniting the south of the peninsula with the north and bringing together his Italo-Roman subjects and his Germanic into one Catholic state.

By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary became Ottoman provinces.

Over the twenty three years from his first revelation until his death, Islam became the dominant force in the Arabian peninsula and Somalia, and a serious challenge to the Byzantine and Sasanian empires.

The Crimean peninsula was changing hands as well, in 1897 it was a part of the Taurida Governorate, but after the October Revolution became part of the Russian SFSR, and later was turned under the administration of the Ukrainian SSR.

Later it became the capital of all the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire due to the city's importance in the Balkan peninsula.

The County of Castile, which originally included Cantabria ( excepting Liébana ), part of Vizcaya, most of Burgos and parts of La Rioja., became the leading force in the northern Christian states ' 800-year Reconquista (" reconquest ") of central and southern Spain from the Muslim rulers who had dominated most of the peninsula since the early 8th century.

The last Ausonian ruler was king Italus, from whom the name of Italy is derived: the land round Reggio was at first known as Saturnia and then Italia, which in Roman times became the name of the whole peninsula, but in those days corresponded only to present-day southern Calabria, which was also known later as Bruzium.

The Angevin Kingdom of Naples included the southern part of the Italian peninsula, while the island of Sicily became the Aragonese Kingdom of Sicily.

Naples became the first city on the Italian peninsula to have a railway in 1839, there were many factories throughout the kingdom making it a highly important trade centre.

It expanded into the southwest ( Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces ) of the peninsula and became a significant political and military power.

His episcopate, begun in 524, had not come to an end in 541 ; he converted to Catholicism two Visigothic chiefs, Mandrier and Flavian, who became anchorites and martyrs on the peninsula of Mandrier.

The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat of invasion grew, were begun in 1756 as a complex across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend in the River Medway, and included Fort Amherst.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Lombard invasions, " Italy " or " Italia " gradually became the collective name for diverse sovereign entities appearing on the peninsula.

The Spaniards gave the name " California " to the peninsula and to the lands north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became parts of the present-day U. S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

The centre of the peninsula was one of the least-populated regions of the Al-Andalus until the 11th century when it became important and a strategic military post.

As the Allies and the Resistance gradually chased the Nazis and Fascists off the peninsula, it became apparent that Victor Emmanuel was too tainted by his earlier support of Mussolini to have any postwar role.

The very next year Odet Philippe became the first permanent, non-native resident of the peninsula when he established a homestead near the site of the Tocobaga village in Safety Harbor.

Tarpon Springs became West Hillsborough's first incorporated city in 1887, and in 1888 the Orange Belt Railroad was extended into the southern portion of the peninsula.

Originally it was part of an ancient river system that was cut off by deposition material and became 2 small lakes divided by a narrow peninsula.

In the latter part of the 4th century BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula.

The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula.

Also vexatious were the Saxons, the name Roman writers gave to the peoples who lived in the northern part of what is now Germany and the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.

It is located in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula, formed by a trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

Cambodia covers 181, 040 square kilometres in the southwestern part of the Indochina peninsula.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

On the map of Ptolemy, the " Kimbroi " are placed on the northernmost part of the peninsula of Jutland., i. e. in the modern landscape of Himmerland south of Limfjorden ( since Vendsyssel-Thy north of the fjord was at that time a group of islands ).

There is both documentary and archaeological evidence that Kent was colonized primarily by Jutes, from the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.

The title was not exactly hereditary but self proclaimed by those who had, wholly or partially, united the Christian northern part of the Iberian peninsula, often at the expense of killing rival siblings.

The island is divided into two parts, the northern portion which is Maxorata and the southwestern part called the Jandía peninsula.

The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; ) is located in Turkish Thrace ( or East Thrace ), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.

The peninsula, a part of the Byzantine Empire, was gradually conquered by the Ottoman Empire from 13th century to the 15th century.

Scholars suggest they are descendants of early Austroasiatic-speaking agriculturalists, who brought both their language and their technology to the southern part of the peninsula approximately 4, 000 years ago.

They were part of the migratory movements of the Vandals, into the Iberian peninsula and later on to North Africa.

The northernmost part of Jutland is separated by the Limfjord from the mainland, but is still commonly reckoned as part of the peninsula.

They are believed to have originated from Jutland peninsula ( called Iutum in Latin ) in modern Denmark, Southern Schleswig ( Southern Jutland ) and part of the North Frisian coast in northern Germany.

Fish and shellfish have been a major part of Korean cuisine because of the oceans bordering the peninsula.

The northern part of the peninsula is occupied by Koryak Autonomous Okrug, where around 6, 700 Koryaks live.

It is situated in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

Lansing is located in the south central part of the lower peninsula where the Grand River meets the Red Cedar River.

( Paran is a vaguely defined region in the northern part of the Sinai peninsula, just south of Canaan ) Moses sent twelve spies into Canaan as scouts, including most famously Caleb and Joshua.