With its strategic position, Constantinople controlled the route between Asia and Europe, as well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.

With Constantinople as its capital and vast control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries.

With the end of the Macedonian wars – which ran concurrently with the Punic Wars – and the defeat of the Seleucid King Antiochus III the Great in the Roman – Syrian War ( Treaty of Apamea, 188 BC ) in the eastern sea, Rome emerged as the dominant Mediterranean power and one of the most powerful cities in classical antiquity.

With his huge army he was intent upon establishing the Seleucid empire as the foremost power in the Hellenic world but these plans put the empire on a collision course with the new superpower of the Mediterranean, the Roman Republic.

With the Turkic expansion during Early Middle Ages ( c. 6th – 11th centuries ), peoples speaking Turkic languages spread across Central Asia, covering a vast geographical region stretching from Siberia to Europe and the Mediterranean.

With the Turkic expansion during Early Middle Ages ( c. 6th – 11th centuries ), Turkic languages, in the course of just a few centuries, spread across Central Asia, stretching from Siberia ( the Sakha Republic ) to the Mediterranean ( Seljuk Turks ).

* With Carthage and Greece conquered, Rome becomes the sole superpower in the Mediterranean world, a distinction it will continue to hold for approximately the next 600 years.

* " In Our Time " Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Etruscan civilization, With: Phil Perkins, Professor of Archaeology at the Open University ; David Ridgway, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London ; and Corinna Riva, Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London.

With a history of human use of over 7, 000 years, garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as a frequent seasoning in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

With the Mediterranean linked to the Fergana Valley, the next step was to open a route across the Tarim Basin and the Gansu Corridor to China Proper.

With the creation of the Exarchate of Africa in 590, Maurice further solidified the empire's hold on the western Mediterranean.

With the shift in world economy and trade routes to the New World and away from the Mediterranean, Genoa's political and economic power went into steady decline.

With the end of the revolution and the creation of the Greek state, the island gradually lost its maritime position in the Eastern Mediterranean, igniting an economic crisis which led to a period of hardship and unemployment.

With Rome's eventual hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanised forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout the Roman Empire.

With a generally low altitude the Bas-Vivarais enjoys a warm, and dry, almost Mediterranean climate.

With a throughput of 1. 4 million TEUs, Piraeus is placed among the first ten ports in container traffic in Europe and the top container port in the Eastern Mediterranean.

With its gentle Mediterranean climate, Montecito has long been a desirable location for nursery men and gifted horticulturists.

With a marine west coast-cool summer Mediterranean climate, Long Beach is known for its year round mild climate.

With this new fleet the Ottoman Empire was able to reassert its supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

With expulsion from Spain came the dissemination of Jewish Philosophical investigation throughout the Mediterranean Basin, Northern Europe and Western Hemisphere.

With the victory at Preveza and the subsequent victory in the Battle of Djerba in 1560, the Ottomans succeeded in repulsing the efforts of Venice and Spain, the two principal rival powers in the Mediterranean, to stop their drive for controlling the sea.

With the political unification of the Mediterranean Sea in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, naval artillery fell out of use.

With Narbonne secure, and equally important, its port, for the Arab mariners were masters now of the Western Mediterranean, al-Samh swiftly subdued the largely unresisting cities, still controlled by their Visigoth counts: taking Alet and Béziers, Agde, Lodève, Maguelonne and Nîmes.

With increased trade contacts across the Alps, the cultural influence of the Mediterranean grew in the area.

With the world's longest undefended border and shared responsibility for the defence of North America, Canada has long been militarily allied with the United States.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

With the initial encouragement of Russian agents, a series of agreements was concluded between Serbia and Bulgaria in March 1912.

With the death of Stalin in early March 1953, Russian support for a Chinese hard-line weakened and China decided to compromise on the prisoner issue.

With the exception of the Orthodox Church of Greece ( Holy Synod in Resistance ), they will commune the faithful from all the canonical jurisdictions and are recognized by and in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

With Interlingua an objective procedure is used to extract and standardize the most widespread word or words for a concept found in a set of control languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, with German and Russian as secondary references.

With the popularizing of the word nihilism by Turgenev, a new Russian political movement called the Nihilism movement adopted the term.

With the breakup of federal states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and the problem of Russian and Serbian dominance in any proposed all-Slavic organisation, the idea of Pan-Slavic unity is mostly considered dead.

With access to three of the world's oceans — the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific — Russian fishing fleets are a major contributor to the world's fish supply.

With a few changes of status, most of the Soviet-era administrative and territorial divisions of the Russian Republic were retained in constituting the Russian Federation.

With financial backing from Savva Mamontov ( the director of the Russian Private Opera Company ) and Princess Maria Tenisheva, the group founded the journal Mir iskusstva ( World of Art ).

With the cooperation of the Russian SVR, they are infiltrated into Tehran, where they laser-designate the home of UIR dictator Mahmoud Daryaei so that Air Force stealth aircraft can destroy the house.

With the Russians sunk and scattering, Togo prepared for pursuit, and while doing so ordered his torpedo boat destroyers ( TBDs ) ( mostly referred to as just destroyers in most written accounts ) to finish off the Russian battleship.

With the Treaty of Nystad in 1721, the city became part of the Russian Empire and was known as Derpt.

* Massive immigration wave of Jews from the Commonwealth of Independent States to Israel – With the end of the Soviet Union, Israel faced a mass influx of Russian Jews, many of whom had high expectations the country was unable to meet.

:‘ Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette ?’ [...] With the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, put a single cartridge in the cylinder, spin the cylinder, put it to his head and pull the trigger.

With no prospect of concrete assistance from Austria, and in view of the defeat of the Prussian – Russian coalition, which now sent peace signals to France, he felt he had no choice.

With the fall of the Russian Empire, the Russian Provisional Government removed all civil restrictions based on religion and nationality, contributing to local enthusiasm for the February Revolution.

With the exception of Hokkaidō, one of the Japanese home islands, the sea is surrounded on all sides by territory administered by the Russian Federation.

With exemplary knowledge of seven languages, Goldberg also translated numerous foreign literary works exclusively into Modern Hebrew from Russian, Lithuanian, German, Italian, French, and English.