Main articles: Map projection and List of map projectionsA map is made using a map projection, which is any method of representing a globe on a plane. All projections distort distances and directions, ...
This excerpt tells of the role of Oceanus in the Titanomachy:After the first Dionysus had been slaughtered, Father Zeus ... attacked the mother of the Titanes with avenging brand, and shut up the mu ...
The economic structure of Urartu was similar to other states of the Ancient World, especially to Assyria. The state was heavily dependent on agriculture, which required a centralized effort to irrigat ...
The name Urartu comes from Assyrian sources: the Assyrian King Shalmaneser I (1263–1234 BC) recorded a campaign in which he subdued the entire territory of "Uruatri." The Shalmaneser text uses the na ...
After World War I, the borders in Southwest Asia were redrawn in the Treaty of Lausanne, when the Ottoman Empire was partitioned. Clause 109 of the treaty stipulated that the three riparian states of ...
The Ancient Greek form Euphrátēs (Ancient Greek: Ε?φρ?τη?) was borrowed from Old Persian Ufrātu, itself from Elamite ú-ip-ra-tu-i?. In Akkadian the river was similarly called Purattu, whi ...
Eckhard Unger (Landsberg an der Warthe, 11 April 1884 – 24 July 1966) was a German assyriologist.Unger who was the curator of the Istanbul museum described the remains of Balawat Gates that are still ...
The map is circular with two outer defined circles. Cuneiform script labels all locations inside the circular map, as well as a few regions outside. The two outer circles represent water in between an ...
Greek is spoken by about 13 million people, mainly in Greece, Albania and Cyprus, but also worldwide by the large Greek diaspora. There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements and regions in the ne ...
Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene (in modern-day Libya). The son of Aglaos, Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC, in a city ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty. The city was colonized in the years after Alexander ...
Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. It may be carried out by governments or by private organizations either at the behest of go ...
Socrates defied censorship and was sentenced to drink poison in 399 BC for promoting his philosophies. Plato is said to have advocated censorship in his essay on The Republic. The playwright Euripides ...
Attendees to the Mapping for Change International Conference on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication conferred to at least three potential implications of PPGIS; it can: (1) ...
The term neogeography has been used since at least 1922. In the early 1950s in the U.S. it was a term used in the sociology of production work. The French philosopher Fran?ois Dagognet used it in th ...
SPARQL allows users to write queries against data that can loosely be called "key-value" data, more specifically it is data that follows the RDF specification of the W3C. The entire database is thus a ...
