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The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.
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Statistics have been recognized as a matter of strategic importance in the Congo and in Ruanda-Urundi during the post-war years in connection with long-term economic and social programs.
Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.
Caution and the importance of strategic points are the chief features of his system.
As part of the only passage between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the Bosporus has always been of great commercial and strategic importance.
As a result of their introduction, bouts became longer and more strategic with greater importance attached to defensive maneuvers such as slipping, bobbing, countering and angling.
The port of Ploče is of strategic importance for the industries of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The resultant stagnation of economic growth was particularly pronounced in Cuba because of its great strategic importance in the Caribbean, and the stranglehold that Spain kept on it as a result.
With its position on the Red Sea, Djibouti holds a major strategic importance.
Dartmouth was of strategic importance as a deep-water port for sailing vessels.
European Union relations with Egypt are based on a partnership relation within the Euro – Mediterranean and Middle East area, which is of vital strategic importance and a key external relations priority for the EU.
Georgia's location, nestled between the Black Sea, Russia, and Turkey, gives it strategic importance far beyond its size.
As the seaway to Saint Petersburg, the Gulf of Finland has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to Russia.
The strategic importance of the site was increased by the fact that it lay on a major river estuary, where vessels could dock at the port of Suso.
Natural harbors have long been of great strategic naval and economic importance, and many great cities of the world are located on them.
This move was of major strategic importance, as it provided the Greeks with a forward base in close distance to the Dardanelles, the Ottoman fleet's main anchorage and refuge.
Albania had long had considerable strategic importance for Italy.
In the last two centuries of Sasanian rule, Aria ( Herāt ) had great strategic importance in the endless wars between the Sasanians, the Chionites and the Hephthalites who had been settled in modern northern Afghanistan since the late 4th century.
The existing Portuguese interests in Asia proved sufficient to finance further colonial expansion and entrenchment in areas regarded as of greater strategic importance in Africa and Brazil.
Its strategic importance between China on one side and the Middle East and Europe on the other, temporarily gave all of Eurasia incredible riches.
Section 112 ), describes the Pharos and how it was a key landmark to his subduing Ptolemy XIV's armies ( 48 BC ), describing its strategic importance in his sentences " Now because of the narrowness of the strait there can be no access by ship to the harbour without the consent of those who hold the Pharos.
Nevertheless, Wever recognised the importance of strategic bombing.
Located south-south-east of Calakmul, and north of Tikal, it is believed to have had strategic importance to, and been vulnerable to military attacks by, both neighbours.
Historically Maldives has had a strategic importance because of its location on the major marine routes of the Indian Ocean.
At the end of World War II, Malta's strategic importance had reached a low point.
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Rumelihisarı, which was designated to control the passage of ships through the strait, eventually lost its strategic importance when a second pair of fortresses was built further up the Bosphorus, where the strait meets the Black Sea.
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In this situation, there are a number of strategic reasons why an individual player might select one hotel chain over another to be the one that remains on the board.
Although not a NATO member, Egypt remains a strong military and strategic partner and is a participant in NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue forum.
It remains a lynchpin of regional security due to its strategic location astride a number of key international maritime straits, particularly the Malacca Strait.
It is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and a living influence on strategic thinking.
This strategic location invested it with importance in medieval times and its large castle remains largely intact.
Cáceres as a city was founded as Castra Caecilia by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and started to gain importance as a strategic city under Roman occupation, and remains found in the city suggest that it was a thriving center as early as 25 BC.
Throughout the civil parish there are scattered remains of these early communities ; the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs selected this area for its strategic place in Western Europe.
No single strategic managerial method dominates, and remains a subjective and context-dependent process.
The 6th century BC, 13 chapter book Sun Tzu ’ s ' Art of War ' which may have been used by Napoleon, remains relevant and has been accredited with being valuable to both army generals and strategic business directors alike over 25 centuries later.
Molson Canadian remains a core strategic brand in the portfolio in Canada.
However, industrial and commercial activities remains important, due to the strategic location of the city as the country's only seaport.
Because of its strategic geographical situation, remains of the Defence Line of ' Poznań ' Army, including reinforced concrete bunkers, can be seen near Konin.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the reunification of Germany in 1990, and the subsequent withdrawal of Soviet forces, the Fulda Gap lost its strategic importance, but it remains a powerful symbol of the Cold War.
Some historians, such as John Kenyon, suspect that an early motte and bailey castle may have built on the Raglan site during this period: the location had strategic importance and archaeologists have discovered the remains of a possible bailey ditch on the site.
In her post-congressional career, she remains engaged in civic life in Oregon and works as a strategic planning consultant.
The remains of a motte and bailey castle lie in the upper village, a strategic location determined by its situation at the northern end of Treffgarne gorge.
The area is very rich in archaeological remains due to its strategic location.
Hombori remains a focus of Songhai Empire traditions but was also a strategic point for the conquest of southern Mali by the Songhai successor states.
The remains of the old Roman walled fortress located 60 metres ( 200 ft ) above the countryside to the south and west, proved an ideal strategic position to construct a new castle.
Though production from the Gamba field is now only a fraction of what it once was, Gamba remains an important and strategic oil hub, being one of only two oil terminals in Gabon ( the other one being Cape Lopez.
Some campaign models have been developed which are fully dynamic, and where successive missions take place in an environment which is persistent ( destroy a building in one mission, it remains destroyed in the next and will only be rebuilt in view of limited resources, realistic time and strategic priorities, etc .).
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