Over the course of the preceding one hundred years, Rome had defeated every rival that stood in the way of their domination of the Italian peninsula.

This ensured for the first time that all the realms of the Iberian peninsula ( save for Portugal ) would be united by one monarch under one nascent Spanish crown, with the founding territories retaining their separate governance codes and laws.

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.

The Malay term Tanah Melayu ( literally: ' The Malay Land ') is generally used by the Malays and occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all ethnic Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realised with the creation of Malaysia.

After the last prince of the family of Alaeddin, to whom Osman's empire was indebted for its foundation in Asia Minor, died, there was no one to compete with Osman for the headship of the Turks of the region and dominion over the whole peninsula, save the Emir of Karamanids.

San Francisco was one of the last places affected by the radioactive dust, especially on the peninsula to the south.

The possesser also reaches one of the Kulu colonies, resulting in the loss of a peninsula, which is transported by the local possesser into another dimension ( this is what happens when the possessers reach a certain number on a planet or in a certain area ).

Hence, the question of which is the largest peninsula in Europe is a debatable one, depending on arbitrary human definitions of where the peninsulas begin — and on which century one chooses to consider: sometimes, Scandinavia as a peninsula has not existed.

Sudan sent at least one infantry brigade to the Sinai peninsula as a reinforcement to the Egyptian forces during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents, but is variably considered a subcontinent or large peninsula of northwestern Eurasia.

One of the few reasonably consistent pieces of information is that exploration voyages from the main base sailed down both the east and west coasts of the land ; this was one of the factors which helped archaeologists locate the site at L ' Anse Aux Meadows, at the tip of Newfoundland's long northern peninsula.

Wang Geon was popular with his people, and he decided to unite the entire peninsula under one government.

Sevastopol ( or ; previously Sebastopol ; ; ) is one of two cities with special status in Ukraine ( the other being the capital, Kiev ), located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula.

Despite the generally high precipitation, the weather is less cloudy than in the adjacent Kuril Islands that are one of the least sunny places in the world, since the city is located behind a peninsula to the north that blocks some of the fog from the Oyashio Current.

The final papers from Peter before his death on 28 January made it clear to Bering that he should proceed to the Kamchatka peninsula, build one or two ships there, and, keeping the land on his left, sail northwards until the land turned westwards, making it clear that there existed sea between Asia and North America.

A peninsula along the southern shore of the Sassafras River containing several large farms and a large pond that were assembled into one property by the former owners of The Sassafras Boat Company marina and Sassafras House restaurant at Georgetown, Liz Maytag and Mike Revuke, has been preserved as a wildlife sanctuary.

Even among those who wanted to see the peninsula unified into one country, different groups could not agree on what form a unified state would take.

By 1830, revolutionary sentiment in favour of a unified Italy began to experience a resurgence, and a series of insurrections laid the groundwork for the creation of one nation along the Italian peninsula.

Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea, Kiel has become one of the major maritime centres of Germany.

These talks were held during one round of the Six-Party Talks in Beijing which committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

The " Historical Downtown Salerno " is believed to be one of the best maintained in the Italian peninsula.

The crew of Captain James Cook became the first Europeans to sight the peninsula, during Cook's first circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769, when he named the feature in honour of the Endeavours botanist, Joseph Banks.

The captain of the ship, Captain Samuel Chase ( not to be confused with his contemporary, Captain Samuel Rodman Chace ), lays claim to correcting James Cook's charts by determining that " Banks Island " was in fact a 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.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

By 1982 after all of Sinai was returned to Egypt, the central government divided the peninsula into two governorates.

For 20 years, the two powers struggled for supremacy in the western Mediterranean Sea, primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters but also to a lesser extent in the Apennine peninsula and North Africa.

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

The Visigoths meanwhile, having sacked Rome two years earlier, arrived in the region in 412 founding the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse ( in the south of modern France ) and gradually expanded their influence into the Iberian peninsula at the expense of the Vandals and Alans, who moved on into North Africa without leaving much permanent mark on Hispanic culture.

But Saddam embraced Islamic rhetoric and attacked Saudi Arabia, his enemy in the war, for violating Islamic unity and its role as custodian of the two holy cities by allowing non-Muslims on its soil ( traditional Muslim belief holds that non-Muslims must not be allowed on the Arabian peninsula ), and he also accused the Kingdom of being a puppet of the west.

When the two crowns of the Iberian peninsula were joined in 1581, the Dutch felt free to attack Portuguese territories in Asia.

However, the Kiel Canal was commenced in June 1887, which connected the North Sea with the Baltic through the Jutland peninsula, allowing German ships to travel between the two seas avoiding waters controlled by other countries.

* Subgenus Sabaudia constitutes two species in the southwest Arabian peninsula and Eritrea, which are rather distinct from the other species, and are sometimes placed in their own genus Sabaudia.

The Korean peninsula was divided into two occupied zones in 1945, with the northern half of the peninsula occupied by the Soviet Union and the southern half by the United States.

The stage was set for a civil war between two rival regimes on the Korean peninsula.

Northern Michigan's rivals in sports action are the two other major schools in the upper peninsula: Michigan Technological University, and Lake Superior State University.

* Bergen Point and Constable Hook are two peninsulas in Bayonne, which itself lies on peninsula surrounded by Upper New York Bay, Newark Bay, and the Kill van Kull, formerly known as Bergen Neck

The victory over Carthage in the First Punic War brought the first two provinces outside the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Corsica et Sardinia.

The two regions, separated by the Jirisan Massif, nurture a rivalry said to reach back to the Three Kingdoms of Korea Period, which lasted from the fourth century to the seventh century A. D., when the kingdoms of Baekje and Silla struggled for control of the peninsula.

According to the Köppen climate classification, it is dominant in the peninsula, with two varieties: Csa and Csb.

The bulk of the peninsula is divided administratively into two of Egypt's 27 governorates ( with three more straddling the Suez Canal area ), and has a population of approximately 500, 000 people.

The United States conducted two failed invasion attempts in 1812, first by General William Hull across the Detroit River into what is now Windsor, Ontario, and a second offensive at the Niagara peninsula.

* The Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex and his two legions are deployed to Sicily, the first time a Roman army has gone into action outside the Italian peninsula.

Advancing deep into the southern part of the peninsula, the two armies met at Bari, and continued further south in 1137.

Tinganes is the peninsula that divides the harbour into the two parts Eystaravág and Vestaravág.

Geologically, the rocks found at the two capes, and indeed over much of the peninsula, are part of the Table Mountain Group, and are formed of the same type of sandstones as Table Mountain itself.

To the north is the closely built old town on the peninsula between two modern harbours, with the splendid Basilica of Saint Nicholas, the Cathedral of San Sabino ( 1035 – 1171 ) and the Swabian Castle built for Frederick II, which is now also a major nightlife district.