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Salemi

**Salemi** is a toun an *[[comune]]* in soothwastren Sicily, Italy, admeenistratively pairt o the province o Trapani. It is locatit in the Belice Valley.

## History
Salemi the place whaur Giuseppe Garibaldi annoonced the annexation o Sicily on Mey 14, 1860 as pairt o the expedition o the Thoosan, briefly makin the toun his heidquarters efter his landin at Marsala twa days earlier.

## Freemit airtins
*La Dolce Video - New York Times
*Salemi, Trapani, Sicily - Local information in Inglis
Firth o Clyde

The **Firth o Clyde** is a mukkil bodie o coastal wattir (a firth) on the wast coast o Scotland. It is beildit frae the Atlantic Ocean (til the wast) bi the Kintyre hauf-iland.

At its ooter mairch it is aboot 26&nbsp;mile (42&nbsp;km) wyd. At the northren end it brainches-af intil monie voes (lang, nairrae inlats)—thir includes Loch Fyne, Loch Goil, Loch Long an Loch Gare. Ilands in the firth include (frae mukkilest ti wee-est) the Isle o Arran, the Isle o Bute, Gret Cumbrae, Wee Cumbrae, Inchmarnock, Haly Island, Ailsa Craig an Sanda. The bit o the firth atwein Arran an Kintyre is kent as the Kilbrannan Soond.

Thar is nae greement anent whether the estuarie o the River Clyde is pairt o the firth. In Scots Gaelic the mair nairrae landward end is kent as *Linne Chluaidh* (meinin the same as the Scots) an the mair braid bit til the sooth o thon is kent as *Linne Ghlas*.

## Touns on the shoreline
;On the Scots mainland
*Ardrussan, Ayr
*Cardross
*Dumbairton, Dunoon
*Greenock, Girvan
*Helensburgh
*Irvin
*Largs
*Preswick
*Saulcoats, Stinson
*The Truin
*Wast Kilbride

;On Kintyre an the ilands
*Brodick
*Caumeltoun
*Millport
*Rothesay

## Licht-houses
Thar ar lichthouses at:
*Cloch Pynt
*Toward Pynt
*Little Cumbrae
*Pladda
Vita, Sicily

**Vita** is a toun an *[[comune]]* in inland Soothwastren Sicily, Italy, admeenistratively pairt o the province o Trapani. It is the smawest municipality aurie o the province o Trapani (8.88&nbsp;km² circa). It is an aw characterized bi the seicont heichest altitude in the province, efter Erice.

The toun wis foondit in the early 17t century, unner the Spaniards, bi a noble frae Calatafimi, Vito Sicomo. The birth o the tounship wis then ratifeed bi King Philip III o Spain on 11 Mairch 1607.

In 1860, the toun gae its full support tae the *[[redshirts (military history)|Mille]]* led bi Giuseppe Garibaldi. In the early 1900s, the ceety reached its heichest population, wi 6,000 indwallers circa. Mair recently, its indwallers hae slowly left the toun in order tae muive towards Northren Italy an foreign kintras, wi possibly its lairgest emigrant community locatit in Toronto. Vita wis hivily damaged bi an yirdquauk in 1968, an rebuilt in a new urban zone, close tae the auld ane.

The derivation o the name is uncertain: it is possibly associatit tae the foonder's name, but micht aither be o Arab oreegin (thare is a toun namit Vita in Algerie too), or even somehou associatit tae the same Italian wird which means *life*.

## Source
* History o Vita
Amealco de Bonfil

**Amealco** is a municipality in the Mexican state o Querétaro.  Its name is thocht tae mean *place o springs* in Nahuatl. The municipality seat, cried Amealco forby, is locatit 63&nbsp;km sootheast o Santiago de Querétaro. Its elevation is 2,605 meters abuin sea level, an the annual temperatur ranges frae 15 tae 20&nbsp;°C. It is ane o the auldest settlements o Querétaro, being foondit in 1538 bi Fernando de Tapia (kent as *Conín* forby) an Nicolás de San Luis Montañez, who wad foond the State caipital an aw.

In the early 19t century, a group o French an Spainyie entrepreneurs settled in the ceity an began the loggin industry, which at its peak wis ane o the main suppliers o wood tae Mexico Ceity, an exportit wood tae Fraunce an the Unitit States an aw. The govrenments o these twa kintras issued diplomas kept in the Palacio Municipal that certify the quality o Amealco's products.

The Hñähñu or Otomí fowk are concentratit in the soothren and eastren pairts o the municipality, in 34 settlements. The main anes are Santiago Mexquititlán an San Ildefonso Tultepec.  They number aroond 20,000 fowk, or 36% o the total population. Amealco is the municipality wi the heichest concentration o indigenous fowk, wi amaist 80% o the State's total.

## References
* Amealco de Bonfil , *[http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/ELOC_Enciclopedia Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México] *, Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB.  Accessed on line November 15, 2007.

## Freemit airtins
* Municipio de Amealco de Bonfil, Querétaro , offeecial govrenment wab steid.
* Amealco, lugar de manantiales (Querétaro), México Desconocido tourism web site.
Firth o Forth

The **Firth o Forth** () is the estuarie or firth o Scotland's River Forth, whaur it flowes intil the German Sie. Til the north ligs the coontie/coonsil area o Fife an til the sooth ligs the Fawkirk, Ceety o Edinburgh, Wast Lowden an East Lowden coonsil areas. 

Mukkil touns an ceities on or naur the shore include Kirkcaldy, Fawkirk, Stirlin, Musselburgh, Alloa, Grangemooth, Buckhyn, Inverkeithin, Bo’ness, Queensferrie, North Barwick an the Scots heidtoun, Edinburgh.

As weil as touns an ceities, thar ar monie industrial steids on its shore. Thir includes the petrochemical plaunt at Grangemooth, the commersial docks at Leith, umwhyl aylrig biggin yairds at Methil, the ship-brekin faseilitie at Inverkeithin an the naval dockyaird at Rosyth.

The Forth Road Brig, Forth Railwey Brig an Kincardine Brig cairrie traffec athort the Firth. The Clackmannanshire Brig, neist the Kincardine Brig, apen’d in 2008.

Geologicalie, the Firth o Forth is a fjord, shapit bi the Forth glacier in the last ice eild. The river is tydal as ferr inland as Stirlin, but the mairch atwein the river an firth is forordnar held ti be at Kincardine Brig. The inner Firth (atwein the Kincardine an Forth brigs), haes lost aboot hauf o its foreshore (intertydal aurie) as an affcum o land bein reclaim'd. This wis pairtlie for fermin, but maistlie for industrie an the mukkil ess lagouns biggit ti stell the spoil frae the coal fyr'd Longannet Pouer Station.

The Firth is important for naitur hainin an a *Steid o Special Scientific Interest*. The *Firth o Forth Ilands Special Protection Aurie* is host ti ower 90,000 breedin siebirds ilka yeir. Thar is a bird watchhouss on the Isle o May.

## Ilands o the Forth

## Referenses
Moray Firth

The **Moray Firth** () is a mukkil triangular bay (or firth) on the nor'aestren coast o Scotland. It is pairt o the German Ocean an is Scotland's mukkilest firth. Its ooter mairch raxes frae Duncansbie Heid (naur John o Groats) til Kinnaird Heid (naur Fraserburgh). The firth haes mair nor 800 kilometer (aboot 500 mile) o coastline, mukkil o whilk is clints. 

The Moray Firth haes sindrie 'sub-firths' an bays, maistlie at the sooth-aest nuik. Thir include the Dornach Firth, Cromartie Firth an Beulie Firth. Naur the northren mairch o the Moray Firth is the Pentland Firth an Orkney. A nummer o rivers flowe intil the Moray Firth anaw, includin the River Ness, the River Findhorn an the River Spey. 

The Caledonian Canal jyns the Moray wi the Firth o Lorn on the ither syd o Scotland. Hit wis biggit sae that ships wadna hae ti traivil roond the north coast, tharby shortenin traivil tyms.

The Moray Firth cud be regairdit as twa firths; the Inner Moray Firth (whilk wis umwhyl kent as the Firth o Innerness) an the mukkiler Ooter Moray Firth. Houaniver, the name "Firth o Innerness" is seindil foond on modren cairts. 

Gaun frae Duncansby Heid til Kinnaird Heid, touns alang the coast o the firth include Wick, Helmsdal, Brora, Golspie, Dornoch, Innerness (the mukkilest), Nairn, Forres, Lossiemooth, Buckie, Bamff an Fraserburgh. Thrie cooncil auries an echt coonties hae Moray Firth coastline. The cooncil auries ar Hieland, Moray an Aiberdeenshire. The coonties ar Caithness, Ross an Cromartie, Innerness-shire, Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire an Aiberdeenshire.

## Fremmit airtins
* UK government website re its status as a protected site 
* The Moray Firth Partnership
Province o Ferrara

The **Province o Ferrara** () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region o Italy. Its caipital is the ceety o Ferrara.

It haes an aurie o 2,632&nbsp;km², aboot twa thirds o the aurie o the U.S. State o Rhode Island, an a total population o aboot 350,000 (2005). There are 26 *[[comuni]]* (singular: *[[comune]]*) in the province http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6 , see Comuni o the Province o Ferrara. On 30 Mey 2005, the main *comuni* bi population wur:

## Freemit airtins

*  Offeecial wabsteid o the Province o Ferrara
Greater São Paulo

The **Greater São Paulo** () is a *nanspecific* term for ane o the multiple definitions the muckle metropolitan aurie locatit in the São Paulo state in Brazil.

## Definitions

### Metropolitan Aurie
A *legally defined* specific term, *Região Metropolitana São Paulo* (RMSP), ane definition for Metropolitan São Paulo, consists o 39 municipalities, includin the caipital, São Paulo.

The RMSP o São Paulo is kent as a financial an economic centre o Brazil, wi a total population o 19,683,975 indwallers (2010 Naitional Census). The mucklest municipalities are São Paulo, wi a population o 11,253,503, Guarulhos wi a population o 1,221,979 fowk, plus several municipalities wi mair nor 100,000 inhabitants, such as São Bernardo do Campo (765,463 inh.) an Santo André (676,407 inh.) in the ABC Region. The ABC Region (frae Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo an São Caetano do Sul) in the sooth o Grande São Paulo is an important location for industrial corporations, such as Volkswagen an Ford.  It represents the "core" ceeties o the greater region.

### Extendit Metropolitan Aurie
The extendit metropolitan aurie o São Paulo (*Complexo Metropolitano Estendido de São Paulo*) is an agglomeration of 3 contiguous metropolitan auries that hae grown intae ane anither an 3 microregions, dominatit bi São Paulo, it consists o the contiguous entities:

## RMSP Statistics

* Territorial aurie: 8,051&nbsp;km²
* Urban aurie: 2,139&nbsp;km²
* Population: 19,677,506
* Latitude: 23 533S
* Langitude: 46 617W

## Municipalities in RMSP

### 1,000,000+

**[[São Paulo]]* (11,038,000)
*Guarulhos (1,279,000)

### 500,000-999,999

*São Bernardo do Campo (802,000)
*Osasco (713,000)
*Santo André (672,000)

### 200,000-499,999

*Mauá (413,000)
*Diadema (394,000)
*Carapicuíba (389,000)
*Mogi das Cruzes (371,000)
*Itaquaquecetuba (351,000)
*Suzano (279,000)
*Barueri (265,000)
*Embu (245,000)
*Taboão da Serra (225,000)
*Itapevi (202,000)

### 100,000-199,999

*Cotia (179,000)
*Ferraz de Vasconcelos (176,000)
*Itapecerica da Serra (159,000)
*Francisco Morato (155,000)
*São Caetano do Sul (151,000)
*Franco da Rocha (129,000)
*Poá (112,481)
*Ribeirão Pires (112,020)
*Santana de Parnaíba (111,000)
*Jandira (110,000)

### Unner 100,000

*Caieiras (87,000)
*Arujá (79,000)
*Mairiporã (77,000)
*Cajamar (63,000)
*Embu-Guaçu (62,000)
*Santa Isabel (47,000)
*Vargem Grande Paulista (44,000)
*Rio Grande da Serra (41,000)
*Biritiba-Mirim (29,000)
*Juquitiba (29,000)
*Guararema (27,000)
*São Lourenço da Serra (18,000)
*Salesópolis (16,000)
*Pirapora do Bom Jesus (15,000)

## Transport

Being the maist industrialisit region o the kintra as well as the maist populatit, the transportation plays an important role. The main heichgates *(rodovias)* o the aurie are:

* Rodovia Anhangüera
* Rodovia dos Imigrantes
* Rodovia Anchieta
* Rodovia dos Bandeirantes
* Rodovia Presidente Dutra
* Rodovia Ayrton Senna
* Rodovia Castelo Branco
* Rodovia Fernão Dias
* Rodovia Raposo Tavares
* Rodovia Régis Bittencourt
* Rodoanel Mário Covas

## Notes an references

## Freemit airtins
* Map
Ezzahra

**Ezzahra**(الزهراء) is a coastal toun on the ootskirts o Tunis locatit sax kilometers sooth o the caipital.

Ezzahra is bundit bi the Mediterranean Sea an the municipalities o Rades, Hammam Lif an El-Bou Mhel Bassatine.

Admeenistratively attached tae the govrenorate o Ben Arous, it is the seat o a delegation an a municipality o 31,792 inhabitants in 20,041 while the ceety itsel haes a population o 6000 inhabitants. Ither ceeties there are agglomeratit includin El Habib, 18 Januar an Borj El-Louzir.

The municipality wis foondit September 10, 1909, durin the colonial period, unner the name o Saint-Germain an wis subsequently referred Ezzahra independence o Tunisie in honor o naitional fechter Lazhar Chraïti (1919-1962). Saint-Germain wis kent bi the paintins o Paul Klee made in 1915.

Ezzahra organize a theater festival each simmer. It an aw haes a basketbaw club namit (Sports Ezzahra) amang the best in Tunisie. 

## See also
*Leet o ceeties in Tunisie

## References
Myrath

**Myrath**, umwhile kent as X-Tazy, is an Oriental metal baund frae Tunisie formit in 2001.

## Biography
Myrath (which means Legacy), a metal baund frae Tunis, Tunisie, stairtit oot as a teenage cover baund formit in 2001 bi guitarist Malek Ben Arbia (who wis 13 year auld at the time) an became in juist a few years, a respectit baund bi the international prog-pouer metal community. Myrath performit in a couple o heichlie ratit festivals as well.

Their first twa releases are “Hope" in September 2007, an "Desert Call" in Januar 2010. Their style is mainly defined as "Oriental Metal". Myrath's destinctive metal style is blendit wi oriental rhythms, scales an harmonies. Myrath haes filmed a video clip for a sang oot o "Tales of the Sands", their latest album, an will support Orphaned Land in a ane month lang European tour stairtin in November 2011 an anither Tour wi Tarja Turunen in Februar 2012.

## Discography
### Studio Albums
* *Hope* (2007)
* *[[Desert Call]]* (2010)
* *[[Tales of the Sands]]* (2011)
* *Legacy* (2016)
* *Shehili* (2019)
* *Karma* (2024)

### Demos
* *Double Face* (2005) (Released anerlie in Tunisie)

## Members
### Current members
* Malek Ben Arbia – guitar (2001–present)
* Zaher Zorgati – lead vocals (2007–present)
* Elyes Bouchoucha – keybuirds (2003–present), lead vocals (2007)
* Anis Jouini – bass (2006–present)
* Morgan Berthet – drums (2011–present)

### Umwhile members
* Walid Issaoui – guitar (2001–2003)
* Fahmi Chakroun – drums (2001–2004)
* Saif Ouhibi – drums (2004–2011)
* Zaher Hamoudia – bass (2001–2004)
* Tarek Idouani – lead vocals (2001–2003)
* Moktar Tiflet – keybuirds (2002–2003)
* Piwee Desfray – drums (2011)

## References

## External links
* Offeecial Wabsteid
* Myrath at Encyclopaedia Metallum
* Interview wi Malek Ben Arbia on Lebmetal.com 30.10.2010
* Interwiews bi Karim Ben Amor 
* Chronicles o ''Hope'' (Obsküre) 
* Critiques at ''nightfall.fr''
Solway Firth

The **Solway Firth** (Scots Gaelic: *Linne Salmhaigh*; auncientlie *Scottis Wath*) is a firth that furms pairt o the mairch atwein Scotland (til the north) an Ingland (til the sooth). On the northren syd is the cooncil aurie o Dumfries an Gallowa an on the soothren syd is the coontie o Cumbria. The firth is pairt o the Erse Sie; the mairch atwein thaim rinnin frae the Mull o Gallowa in Scotland til St Bees Heid in Ingland. The Isle o Man ligs juist ootwith the firth.

The Solway Coast wis braundit an *Aurie o Ootstaunin Naitural Bewtie* in 1964. Thar is ower 750&nbsp;km² o *Steids o Speicial Syentific Interest* in the aurie, as weil as naitional naitur hainins at Caerlaverock an in Cumbria.
 
The coastlyn is maistlins laich-lyin hills an muntains. It is maistlins a landwart aurie wi fishin an hill fermin (as weil as sum arabil fermin) yit haein a mukkil pairt in the local economie. Tourism is eikin anaw. Touns on or naur the Scots syd o the firth include Dumfries, Kirkcoubrie, Annan, Gretna an Newtoun Stewart. Touns on or naur the Inglis syd include Carlisle, Maryport, Workington an Whitehaven. Unlyk ither pairts o Scotland's wast coast, thar is no monie ilands in the Solway Firth. Hestan Iland, Roch Iland an the Ilands o Fleet ar the anerlie merkit byspels.

## Historie
The name *Solway* is o Auld Inglis springheid. It wis first broukit in the thritteent centurie as the name o a fuird athort the clart-plats at Eskmooth. *Sol* is a wird for *clart* an *wæth* refers til a fuird. The thrie fuirds in the aurie at thon tym war the Annan or Bowness Wath, the Dornock Wath (anss cried the Sandywath), an the main ane wis the Solewath.

Atwein 1869 an 1921, the firth wis crosst bi the Solway Junction Railwey on a 1780&nbsp;m (5850&nbsp;ft) airn viaduct. The lyn wis biggit ti cairrie airn ore frae the Whitehaven aurie til Lanrikshire an wis pay'd-for an run bi the Caledonian Railwey o Scotland. Houaniver, the railwey did nae thrive financialie. Eftir the railwey stappit operatin, the brig becam a popular fitpad for dwallers o Scotland (whaur alcohol wis bannit on a Sunday) ti traivil til Ingland whaur thay cud drink. The viaduct wis demolisht atwein 1931 an 1933.

Steids on the firth's shore (in parteicular Kirkcoubrie) war broukit for the filmin o the weil-kent 1973 pictur *[[The Wicker Man]]*.

The Meinistrie o Defenss haes a militar trainin an testin aurie on the coast naur Kirkoubrie. In 2008 thar wis cark whan it wis kytht that ower 6,000 depleted uranium roonds haed been fyr'd thar sin 1982 an that the yird haed becum ower-smitten.

Atwein 2007 an 2010, Scotland's first afshore wind ferm (the Robin Rigg Wind Ferm) wis biggit in the firth.

## Referenses

* Edgar, S. and Sinton, J.M., (1990), *The Solway Junction Railway*, Locomotion Papers No. 176, The Oakwood Press, ISBN 0-85361-395-8
*  (available at books.google.com)
* Ordnance Survey, (2003), *Carlisle & Solway Firth*, Landranger Map, No. 85, Ed. D, Scale 1:50 000 (1¼ inches to 1 mile), ISBN 0-319-22822-3
* Ordnance Survey, (2006), *Solway Firth*, Explorer Map, No. 314 , Ed. A2, Scale 1:25 000 (2½ inches to 1 mile), ISBN 0-319-23839-3
Autumn (Dutch baund)

**Autumn** is a Dutch female frontit gothic metal baund formit in 1995.

## Members
### Current members

### Umwhile members

## Discography
### Studio albums

### Ither releases

## References

## Freemit airtins

*
Loch Neagh

**Loch Neagh** is a mukkil freshwattir loch in the middil o Northren Ireland. Its name cums frae the Erse *Loch nEathach* meinin "loch o Eathach".

## Geografie
Wi an aurie o 392 square kilometre (151 sq mi), it is the mukkilest loch in Northren Ireland, the mukkilest loch in Ireland an the mukkilest loch in the Breetish Isles. It ranks amang the fortie mukkilest lochs o Europe. Liggin twentie mile (30&nbsp;km) wast o Belfast, it is aboot twentie mile (30&nbsp;km) lang an nyn mile (15&nbsp;km) braid. It is gey shallae aroond the lip an the average deipth in the main bodie is aboot 9 metre (30 ft); awtho at its deipest the loch is aboot 25 metre (80 ft) deip. Its wattir vollum is 3,528 km³.

O the 4550&nbsp;km² catchment aurie, aboot 9% ligs in the Republic o Ireland an 91% in Northren Ireland; awthegither 43% o the land aurie o Northren Ireland tuims intil the loch. The main river flowin intil an oot o the loch is the River Bann. The Upper Bann flowes intil the loch's soothren end an the Nether Bann flowes oot the northren end toward the sie. The ither main inflowes is the Saxmilewattir, the Glenavy, the Crumlin, the Blekwattir, the Moyola, the Ballinderry an the Main.

Thar's thrie wee-er lochs aroond the lip o Loch Neagh. Thir ar the mukkiler Loch Beg til the north, the wee-er Loch Beg til the aest, an Loch Gullion til the sooth.

### Ilands
Thar's a nummer o ilands in the loch, awtho nane is gey lairge. Thir include:
*Coney Iland
*Coney Iland Flat
*Croaghan Flat
*Derrywarragh Iland (the mukkilest)
*Padian
*Ram's Iland
*Phil Roe's Flat
*The Shallae Flat

### Touns an veilages
Gaun clockweys frae the northren tip, the main touns an veilages naur the loch ar Toom, Randalstoun, Antrim, Crumlin, Glenavy, Lurgan, Craigavon, Maghery, Ardboe, Derrycrin an Magherafelt. Belfast Internaition Airport ligs naur the aest coast anaw.

## Admeinistration

### Coonties
Five o the sax coonties o Northren Ireland hae shores on the loch (anerlie Fermanagh disna). The coonties ar leet'd clockweys:

#Coonty Antrim (aestren hauf o the loch)
#Coonty Doun (a wee bit in the soothaest)
#Coonty Armagh (sooth)
#Coonty Tyrone (wast)
#Coonty Lunnonderry (ferr nor'wast)

### Destricts
The aurie o the loch is shed atwein sax o Northren Ireland's destricts, whilk ar leet'd clockweys (match the nummers til the cairt on the richt):

*1  Antrim, in the nor'aest, wi the mukkilest deil
*19 Lisburn, in the aest, wi the wee-est deil
*12 Craivagon, in the south
*15 Dungannon an Sooth Tyrone, in the soothwast
*11 Cookstoun, in the wast
*20 Magherafelt, in the nor'wast

## Fowklair
An auld Irish fowk tale tells hou the loch wis made whan an etin (sumtyms sayd ti be Fionn mac Cumhaill) scuipit up a collop o the yird an cuist it at a ryval on Gret Breetain. Houaniver, he misst an the collop o yird laundit in the Erse Sie, becumin the Isle o Man.

## Referenses
Belfast Loch

**Belfast Loch** or **Craigfergus Loch** ( or *Loch Laoigh*, Ulster-Scots: *Bilfawst Loch*, ) is a mukkil inlat (or sie loch) o the Erse Sie on the eist coast o Northren Ireland. It is named eftir the ceitie o Belfast, whilk ligs at the loch's heid (innermaist pynt). On the northren syd is Coonty Antrim an on the soothren syd is Coonty Doun.

Belfast Loch is a lang, braid an deip stent o wattir wi its ooter mairch raxin frae Orlock Pynt til Blekheid. The inner bit o the loch haes monie clart-plats an lagouns. The ooter loch is maistlins craigie shores wi sum wee saundie bays. It is virtualie free o strang tyds.

Coastal touns an veilages include Whiteheid, Craigfergus, Greenisland an Newtounabbey on the Antrim syd an Halywid, Helen's Bay, Bangor an Groomsport on the Doun syd. On aulder cairts o Ireland, made afore Belfast grew intil a ceitie, the loch wis cried *Carrickfergus Bay*.

Popular for sailin, the loch haes twa marinas: ane at Bangor an the ither at Carrickfergus. Belfast docks is at the heid o the loch. Hit inhauds the weil-kent ship-bigger o  fame, Harland & Wolff. Anss ane o the mukkilest shipbiggers in the warld, it is no langer biggin ships, haes shed maist o its wirkers an nou mends an refits tankers an aylrigs. In 1912, the *Titanic* sail'd doun the loch frae Belfast.

Thar is a naitur hainin an Ramsar site (inhaudin clart-plats, gresslaund an lagouns) naur the Belfast docks. The clart-plats ar important feedin auries for sindrie wadin birds an wyldfoul. 

## References
Querétaro

**Querétaro** () offeecially *Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro de Arteaga* () is ane o the 31 states which, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit intae 18 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Santiago de Querétaro.

It is located in North-Central Mexico, in a region kent as el Bajío. It is bordered bi the states o San Luis Potosí tae the north, Guanajuato tae the wast, Hidalgo tae the east, México tae the sootheast an Michoacán tae the soothwast.

The state is ane o the smawest in Mexico, but it is an aw ane o the maist heterogeneous geographically, wi ecoseestems varyin frae deserts tae tropical rainforest, especially in the Sierra Gorda, which is filled wi micro ecoseestems. The aurie o the state wis locatit on the northren edge o Mesoamericae, wi baith the P’urhépecha an Aztec Empires haein influence in the extreme sooth, but neither really dominatit it. The aurie, especially the Sierra Gorda, haed a number o sma ceety states in but bi the time the Spaingie arrivit, these haed aw been abandoned, wi anerlie sma agricultural veelages an semi nomadic fowks inhabitin the aurie. Spaingie conquest wis focused on the establishment o the Santiago de Querétaro, which still dominates the state culturally, economically an educationally.

## References

## Bibliografie

## Freemit airtins
*Meenister o Tourism o the State o Queretaro offeecial wabsteid  (in Spaingie an Inglis)
Arab League

The **Arab League** ( *al-Jāmiʻa al-ʻArabiyya*), offeecially cried the **League o Arab States** ( **), is a regional organisation o Arab states in North an Northeast Africae, an Soothwast Asie (Middle East). It wis formit in Cairo on 22 Mairch 1945 wi sax members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamit Jordan in 1949), Lebanon, Saudi Arabie, an Sirie. Yemen joined as a member on 5 Mey 1945. The Arab League currently haes 21 members an fower observers. The main goal o the league is tae "draw closer the relations atween member States an co-ordinate collaboration atween them, tae safeguard their unthirldom an sovereignty, an tae consider in a general way the affairs an interests o the Arab kintras."

## References
;Notes

;Footnotes
Sylhet

**Sylhet** (Sylheti: ছিলট *Silôţ*, Bengali: সিলেট *Ṣileţ*), is a major ceety in north-eastren Bangladesh. It is the main ceety o Sylhet Diveesion an Sylhet Destrict, an wis grantit metropolitan ceety status in Mairch 2009. Sylhet is locatit on the banks o the Surma Valley an is surroondit bi the Jaintia, Khasi an Tripura hills. The ceety is approachin a population o 500,000 fowk while an aw haein a heich population density. It is ane o the lairgest ceeties in Bangladesh. The Sylhet region is weel kent for its tea gardens an tropical forests The ceety is an aw kent for its business boom; being ane o the richest ceeties in Bangladesh, wi new investments o hotels, shoppin maws an luxury hoosin estates, brocht mainly bi expatriates livin in the Unitit Kinrick.

Sylhet haes a history o conquests an heritage frae different types o culturs. The ceety is describit as a Ceety o Saunts, wi the mausoleum o the great saunt Hazrat Shah Jalal, who brocht Islam tae Bengal durin the 14t century, being locatit here. Durin the next few centuries it wis  pairt o the state o Assam durin the rule o Breetish Raj. Efter unthirldom atween Indie an Pakistan, Sylhet wis then pairt o East Pakistan based on a referendum, an is nou pairt o Bangladesh. It played a major role in the Bangladesh Leeberation War durin the 1970s.Sylhet is the most attractive place for tourist.It is really a land of beauty in Bangladesh. The natural beauty and traditional history of Sylhet are proud for me.Actually the charming beauty of sylhet touches the heart of anyone.High hill, forest,river and canal are very amazing for anyone sylhet has.I still feel the beauty of sylhet  when I visited last.

## Sister ceeties
Sylhet is sister ceeties wi:
*  Amman, Amman Govrenorate, Jordan
*  Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick
*  Ceety o Wastmeenster, Marylebone, Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick
*  Tower Hamlets, Greater Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick
*  St Albans Ceety & Destrict Cooncil, Hertfordshire, Unitit Kinrick
*  Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Greater Manchester, Unitit Kinrick

## See an aw
* Sylhet Diveesion
* Sylhet Destrict
* Leet o fowk frae Sylhet

## References

## Freemit airtins

* the new steid for sylhet based information
* Offeecial wabsteid o Sylhet Ceety Corporation 
* Banglapedia airticle on Sylhet ceety
Soothren Govrenorate

The **Soothren Governorate** (; transliteratit: al-Muhafazah al-Janobiyah) is the lairgest o the five govrenorates o Bahrain. It includes pairts o Bahrain's auld municipalities - Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah, an Juzur Hawar (the Hawar Islands). It is the least populatit o the regions on Bahrain an the least economically productive, per caipita.

The Govrenor o the Soothren Govrenorate is Shaikh Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, the son o The Meenister o Interior H.E. Lt. Gen. Sh. Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa.
Westbourne Green

**Westbourne Green** is an aurie o Lunnon on the wastren edge o the Ceety o Wastmeenster.

## Education

## Transport an locale
;Nearbi places
*Paddington
*Notting Hill
*Bayswater
*Warwick Avenue

The nearest London Underground stations are Westbourne Park an Royal Oak on the Hammersmith & City Line.
St John's Wood

**St John's Wood** is a destrict o north-wast Lunnon, Ingland, in the Ceety o Wastmeenster, an at the north-wast end o Regent's Park. It is approximately 2.5 mile north-wast o Charing Cross. Ance pairt o the Great Middlesex Forest, it wis later awned bi the Knights of St John of Jerusalem. It is hame tae some o the maist expensive properties in the warld.

St John's Wood wis developed frae the early 19t century onwards. It wis ane o the first Lunnon suburbs tae be developed wi a lairge amoont o law density "villa" hoosin, as opposed tae the terraced hoosin which wis the norm in Lunnon up tae the 19t century, even in expensive destricts. Pairts o St John's Wood hae been rebuilt at a heicher density, but it remains a heichlie desirable residential destrict.

St John's Wood is the location o Lord's Cricket Ground, hame o Middlesex County Cricket Club an the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), an oreeginal heidquarters o the sport. It is an aw famous for Abbey Road Studios an the street Abbey Road, whaur The Beatles recordit, notably the *[[Abbey Road]]* album, the cover o which features the baund crossin the road. Paul McCartney haes awned a property in the aurie syne the 1960s alang wi mony ither famous muisic an film starns.

The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery haes a barracks in St. John's Wood an regularly exercises thair horse bi paradin them throu the streets o St. John's Wood.

## Education

## Transport an locale
;Nearest places
* Belsize Park tae the north-east
* Hampstead tae the north
* Kilburn tae the north-wast
* Lisson Grove tae the sooth
* Maida Vale tae the sooth-wast
* Marylebone tae the sooth
* Primrose Hill tae the east
* Regents Park tae the sooth
* Swiss Cottage tae the north

The nearest London Underground stations are St John's Wood, Swiss Cottage &mdash; on the Jubilee Line; Maida Vale, Marylebone Station an Warwick Avenue &mdash; on the Bakerloo Line; an Baker Street on Bakerloo Line, Jubilee Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line an Circle Line.

The nearest London Overground station is South Hampstead

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Map o St John's Wood an the surroondin destricts 
*YourLocal London - St John's Wood (Community Wabsteid)
Marsala

**Marsala** is a seaport ceety locatit in the Province o Trapani on the island o Sicily in Italy. The law coast on which it is situatit is the wastmaist point o the island. It is best kent as the soorce o Marsala wine.

## History
Marsala occupees the steid o **Lilybaeum**, the principal stranghauld o the  Carthaginians in Sicily, foondit bi Himilco in 396 BC efter the abandonment o Motya. Neither Pyrrhus nor the Romans wur able tae reduce it bi siege, but it wis surrendered tae the latter in 241 BC at the end o the First Punic War as a condition o the peace treaty. In the later wars it wis a stairtin point for the Roman expeditions against Carthage, an unner Roman rule it enjoyed considerable prosperity. It obtained municipal richts frae Augustus an became a colony unner either Pertinax or Septimius Severus.

The Arabs gave it its present name "Marsala," which aiblins is derivit frae the Arab "Marsa Allah" (port o Allah) or, mair probably, frae "Marsa ‘Alī" ("port o Ali", or "Marsa ‘āliyy", "great port"). The huge auncient harbor that lay on the northeast wis destroyed bi Charles V in the 16t century, tae prevent its occupation bi pirates. The modren harbor lees tae the sootheast.

On 11 Mey 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi an his Expedition o the Thoosan landit at Marsala an began his campaign tae owerthrow Bourbon rule in Sicily, durin the Unification o Italy process.

## Geography
The ceety is situatit on the Mediterranean coast, in the soothwastren side o Sicily. It lees on the road atween Trapani an Mazara del Vallo.

## Main sichts
Little remains o the auncient Lilybaeum. Fragments o the ceety waws, squared stanes, an some foondations o biggins atween the waws an the sea are visible. The so-cried grotto an spring o the Sibyl is locatit unner the kirk o *San Giovanni Battista* (1555), an is traditionally considered the tomb o the Cuman or Siculian Sibyl.

Tae the east o the toun is a great fosse which defendit it on the land side, an ayont this again are quarries like those o Syracuse on a sma scale.

The modren toun takes the shape o the Roman camp athin the earlier ceety, ane o the gates o which still existit in 1887. Sichts include the campanile an convent o the Annunziata, an the Baroque Kirk o the Purgatory.

The main street (the Cassaro) perpetuates the name castrum. The Biagio Anselmi Airchaeological Museum hooses an example o Carthaginian ship uised durin the Battle o the Aegates Islands (241 BC), as well as ither auncient remains frae the aurie.

Natural sichts include the *stagnone* ("Big Marsh") lagoon preservit aurie.

## See an aw
*Florio
*Marsala Ship

## Freemit airtins
Antioch

**Antioch on the Orontes** (; ;  *Antiok*; ; Arabic:انطاکیه, *Anṭākiya*; an aw **Great Antioch** or **Sirie Antioch**) wis an auncient ceety on the eastren side o the Orontes River. It is near the modren ceety o Antakya, Turkey.

Foondit near the end o the 4t century BC bi Seleucus I Nicator, ane o Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief ceety o the Near East an wis a cradle o Gentile Christianity. It wis ane o the fower ceeties o the Sirie tetrapolis. Its residents are kent as *Antiochenes*.  Ance a great metropolis o a hauf million fowk, it declined tae insignificance durin the Middle Ages acause o repeatit earthquakes, the slochter o its inhabitants bi a Mameluk airmy in 1268, an a chynge in trade routes, follaein the Mongol conquests, which then nae langer passed through Antioch frae the far east.

## Geography
Twa routes frae the Mediterranean, lyin through the Orontes gorge an the Beilan Pass, converge in the plain o the Antioch Lake (*Balük Geut* or *El Bahr*) an are met there bi
# the road frae the Amanian Gate (Baghche Pass) an wastren Commagene, which descends the valley o the Karasu River tae the Afrin River,
# the roads frae eastren Commagene an the Euphratean crossins at Samosata (Samsat) an Apamea Zeugma (Birejik), which descend the valleys o the Afrin an the Quweiq rivers, an
# the road frae the Euphratean ford at Thapsacus, which skirts the fringe o the Sirie steppe. A single route proceeds sooth in the Orontes valley.

## Footnotes

## Freemit airtins

* The Auncient Ceety o Antioch  Map
Loch Ness

**Loch Ness** () is a mukkil an deip freshwattir loch in the Hielands o Scotland. It stents for aboot 37 kilometer (23 mile) soothwast frae Innerness. It haes a surfass aurie o 56.4 km2 (21.8 sq mi), makkin it the seicont-mukkilest Scots loch eftir Loch Lomond. Houaniver, awin til its gret deipth it is the mukkilest bi vollum. Its aiverage deipth is 132 meter (433 fit) an its deipest pynt is 230&nbsp;m (755&nbsp;ft) deiper as the heicht o Lunnon's weil-kent BT Tour. It inhauds mair fresh wattir as aw the lochs in Ingland an Wales pit thegither, an is the mukkilest bodie o wattir on the Gret Glen Blain, whilk rins frae Innerness in the north til Fort Wulliam in the sooth.

At its soothren end, Loch Ness is linkit til Loch Oich bi the River Oich an a bit o the Caledonian Canal. At the northren end is the Bona Narraes that apens oot intil Loch Dochfour, whilk feids the River Ness, an a forder bit o canal up til Innerness. It is ane o a series o mirkie wattirs in Scotland; its wattir veisibilitie is gey law awin til a fek o turf in the surroondin yird.

Loch Ness is best kent for the ledged sichtins o the Loch Ness Monster, eik-named "Nessie".

## Steids on the shore

At Drumnadrochit is "The Loch Ness Centre" whilk luiks intil the naitural historie o Loch Ness. Boat cruises operate frae sindrie steids on the loch shore, giein veisitors the chance ti luik for the "Loch Ness monster". Urquhart Castil ligs on the wastren shore, 1 mile eist o Drumnadrochit.

Thar bes licht-houses at Lochend (Bona Licht-houss) an Fort Augustus.

## Ilands
The anerlie iland on Loch Ness is Cherrie Iland, whilk ligs at its soothwastren end, naur Fort Augustus. It is a crannóg, whilk is a kynd o manmakkit iland. Maist crannogs war biggit durin the Airn Eild.

Thar wis umwhyl a seicont iland (Dug Iland), whilk wis drount whan the wattir level wis heez'd durin the biggin o the Caledonian Canal.

## References
Birecik

**Birecik** (Greek:  an later **Macedonopolis** or **Makedonopolis**; Laitin: **Birtha**; ; , ), an aw umwhile kent as **Bir** an durin the Crusades as **Bile**, is a toun an destrict o Şanlıurfa Province o Turkey, on the Euphrates river.

Birecik Dam an hydroelectric pouer plant, pairt o the Southeastern Anatolia Project is situatit athin the destrict. The Roman ceety o Zeugma is nou drounit in the reservoir ahint the dam. Zeugma's famous mosaics, includin the 'river god', hae been taken tae Gaziantep Museum, but some rescued remains o Zeugma are exhibitit in Birecik. Wi its rich airchitectural heritage, Birecik is a member o the Norwich-based European Association of Historic Towns and Regions (EAHTR) http://www.historic-towns.org/documents/members/turkey.doc.

The Northren Bald Ibis uised tae nest here an winter in the deserts o Arabie, up tae 1,000 pairs in the 1960s. Nou a few dozen birds remain an these nae langer migrate but remain protectit year-roond in Birecik.

Birecik is a brig athort the Euphrates an a uiseful stoppin place on the road frae Şanlıurfa tae Gaziantep, wi watterside restaurants.

## See an aw
*Birtha (Commagene)
*Birtha (Titular See)
*Destrict Govrenor's Office

## References
*Smith, *[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography]]*, *s.v.* Birtha
*Birejik 
*Pictur gallery o this toun
Nag Hammadi

**Nag Hammadi** (, ), is a ceety in Upper Egyp. Nag Hammadi wis kent as Chenoboskion () in classical antiquity, meanin "geese grazin grunds". It is locate on the wast bank o the Nile in the Qena Govrenorate, aboot 80 kilometre north-wast o Luxor.

It haes a population o aboot 30,000, wha is maistly fermers. Succar an aluminium are producit in Nag Hammadi.

The toun o Nag Hammadi wis established bi Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi, wha wis a member o the Hammadi faimily in Sohag, Egyp. Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi wis a major landhaulder in Sohag, an kent for his strang opposition tae the Breetish occupation.

Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi creatit Nag Hammadi for the indigenous fowk frae Sohag wha wis forcit tae abandon thair hameland bi the Breetish occupation. In recognition o this, the new toun wis gien the name "Hammadi".

## The Nag Hammadi Library

Nag Hammadi is best kent for bein the steid whaur local fermers foond a sealed earthenware jar containin thirteen leather-bund papyrus codices, thegither wi pages torn frae anither beuk, in December 1945. The mither o the fermers burned ane o the beuks an pairts o a seicont (includin its civer). Sicweys twal o thir beuks (ane missing its civer) an the loose pages survive. The writins in thir codices, datin back tae the 2nt century AD, comprised 52 maistly Gnostic tractates (treatises), believit tae be a leebrar hidden bi monks frae the nearhaun monastery o St Pachomius whan the possession o sic banned writins, denoonced as heresy, wis made an offence.

The contents o the Coptic-bund codices wis written in Coptic, tho the wirks wur likely aw translations frae Greek. Maist famous o thir wirks must be the *[[Gospel o Thomas]]*, o which the Nag Hammadi codices contain the amerlie complete copy.

Aw the texts haes been public syne 1975, an is available online.

## Nag Hammadi massacre

The ceety wis the steid o the Nag Hammadi massacre in Januar 2010, wherein aicht Coptic Christians wis shot deid bi three Muslim men. Nineteen Coptic Christians wur attacked althegither.

## Notes
Dörtyol

**Dörtyol**  is a port ceety an ile terminus at the heid o the Gulf o İskenderun, near the eastmaist point o the Mediterranean coast. Dörtyol is locatit 26&nbsp;km north o the ceety o Iskenderun in the province o Hatay in southeastern Turkey.

## Geography
The name Dörtyol means "crossroads" (literally "fower roads") in Turkis, an indeed the toun sits on a crossing o heich-gates, especially the O-53 frae Anatolie sooth intae Hatay an on tae Sirie. The road is channelled alang the narrae coastal strip wi the Nur Muntains (the auncient Amanos) ahint. Dörtyol is at the edge o the Çukurova Plain an being near the coast, is humid an the kintraside is fairly green an fertile. Therefore as well as ile-handlin, the economic activities o the destrict include forestry, cotton, an the cultivation o citrus fruits, especially a local variety o tangerine.

## History
This crossroads haes seen the passage o numerous airmies an some o the biggest military campaigns in history, includin the battle aetween Alexander the Great an Darius in 333 BC. Mair recently Dörtyol is remembered in Turkey as the scene o the first fechtin in the Turkis War o Unthirldom. The fechtin wi the occupyin forces wis ignitit in 
Karakese  which is locatit on the skirt o the Nur muntains veelage. In 1918 Dörtyol wis occupeed bi French troops supportit bi Armenie collaborators. Turks in the aurie retreatit tae the hills an began their resistance unner the leadership o Kara Hasan Pasha. Dörtyol wis thus no pairt o the Republic o Hatay but wis a Turkis destrict addit tae Hatay when the province wis brocht intae the Turkis republic in 1939.

## Freemit airtins
* photos o Dörtyol
Euphrates

The **Euphrates** (; : *al-Furāt*, : *Prat*, , ) is the langest an ane o the maist historically important rivers o Wastren Asie. Thegither wi the Tigris, it is ane o the twa definin rivers o Mesopotamie. Oreeginatin in eastren Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Sirie an Iraq tae join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties intae the Persie Gulf.

## Etymology
The earliest references tae the Euphrates come frae cuneiform texts foond in Shuruppak an pre-Sargonic Nippur in soothren Iraq an date tae the mid-third millennium BCE. In these texts, written in Sumerie, the Euphrates appears as *Buranuna* (logographic: UD.KIB.NUN). The name coud an aw be written KIB.NUN.(NA) or dKIB.NUN, wi the prefix "d" indicatin that the river wis deified. In Sumerie, the name o the ceety o Sippar in modren-day Iraq wis an aw a written UD.KIB.NUN, indicatin a historically strang relationship atween the ceety an the river. In Akkadian, the Euphrates wis cried *Purattu*. The modren spellin o the Euphrates derives frae the Auld Persie *Ufrātu* via Middle Persie *Frat* intae Turkis *Fırat*. The Persie *Ufrātu* (meanin *the guid*) is an aw the source o the Greek spellin Εὐφράτης (*Euphrates*).

## See an aw
*Leet o ceeties an touns on the Euphrates River

## Notes

## Freemit airtins

* Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law  Peace Palace Library
Wastren Aisie

**Wastren Asie**, **Wast Asie**, **Soothwast Asie** or **Soothwastren Asie** are terms that describe the wastmaist portion o Asie. The terms are pairtly  wi the *[[Middle East]]*, which describes a geographical poseetion in relation tae Wastren Europe rather than its location athin Asie.  Due tae this perceivit Eurocentrism, internaitional organisations sic as the Unitit Naitions, hae replacit *Middle East* an *[[Near East]]* wi *Wastren Asie*. This region an Europe are collectively referred tae as **Wastren [[Eurasie]]**.

Wastren Asien kintras includes:
*Armenie
*Azerbaijan
*Bahrain
*Cyprus
*Egyp
*Georgie
*Iran
*Iraq
*Israel
*Jordan
*Kuwait
*Lebanon
*Oman
*Palestine (Wast Baunk an Gaza)
*Qatar
*Saudi Arabie
*Sirie
*The Unitit Arab Emirates
*Turkey
*Yemen

## History

The warld's earliest ceevilizations developit in Wastren Asie. For maist o the last three millennia, the region haes been unitit unner ane or twa powerful states; ilka ane succeeding the last, an at times, eastren an wastren based polities. The main states in this regaird war the Assirie Empire, the Babylonie Empire, the Achaemenid Empire, the Seleucid Empire, the Parthian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, the Safavid Empire, an the Ottoman Empire.

Wastren Asie is the birthplace o Islam, Christianity, Judaism, an ither monotheistic releegions.

## References
Lori Province

**Lori** () is a  province (*[[Admeenistrative diveesions o Armenie|marz]]*) o Armenie.  It is in the north o the kintra, borderin Georgie. Its caipital is Vanadzor an Stepanavan is its seicont lairgest ceety.  It is hame tae the UNESCO Warld Heritage Steids o Haghpat an Sanahin an the well-preservit Akhtala monastery, whaur Armenies, Georgies, an Greeks mak an annual pilgrimage on September 20-21.

It wis affectit severely bi the 1988 Spitak yirdquauk. 

Lori is the birthplace o several famous Armenies includin muisicker Harutyun Sayatyan (better kent as Sayat-Nova), poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, an Soviet statesman Anastas Mikoyan.

Lori borders the follaein marzer:
*Tavush - east
*Kotayk - sootheast
*Aragatsotn - soothwast
*Shirak - wast

## Commonties
The province o Lori consists o the follaein 113 commonties (*hamaynkner*), o which 8 (**bauld** in the table) are considered urban an 105 are considered rural. The diveesion belaw is bi raion, the admeenistrative subdiveesions o Armenie afore 1995.

## Gallery

File:Northern_Lori_from_Pushkin_Pass.jpg|Northren Lori as seen frae Pushkin Pass
File:Vanadzor nature.jpg|Vanadzor kintraside
File:Axtala1.jpg|Akhtala monastery
File:Stepanavan Dendropark path.jpg|Stepanavan Dendropark
File:Fioletovo2 (6 sept 2008).jpg|Fioletovo veelage


## References
*


## See an aw
* Kinrick o Lori

## Freemit airtins
* Map o Lori 
* Lori Marz Tourist Guide
* Lori offeecial steid
Armavir Province

**Armavir** () is a province (*[[Admeenistrative diveesions o Armenie|marz]]*) o Armenie wi the caipital in Armavir. It is in the wast o the kintra, locatit in the Ararat valley, atween Munt Ararat an Munt Aragats, an shares a 45-mile mairch wi Turkey tae the sooth an wast. The province is the location o the Holy Ceety o Echmiadzin which serves as the centre o the Armenie Apostolic Kirk an the seat o the Catholicos o Armenie an o Aw Armenies.  An aw locatit in this region is the historic ceety o Sardarapat, steid o the 1918 Battle o Sardarapat, a decisive event seen as no anerlie stoppin the Turkis advance intae the rest o Armenie but an aw preventin the complete destruction o the Armenie naition.

## Geografie
Armavir haes an aurie o 1242 sq. km (4.2% o tot aurie o Armenie) makkin it the smawest province o the kintra in terms o tot aurie. It is bordered bi Turkey frae the wast an the sooth wi a lenth o 130.5&nbsp;km bordrerline, whaur Arax River separates Armenie frae Turkey.

The province is mainly consistit o agricultural lands. Metsamor (or Sevjur) is the anerlie river which stairts frae the province o Armavir.

### Admeenistrative borders
Armavir borders the follaein *marzer*:
* Aragatsotn - north
* Ararat - sootheast
Tae the northeast, atween its bundaries wi Aragatsotn an Ararat, Armavir borders Yerevan an aw.

## Commonties
Armavir Province wis formit efter the new law o 4 September 1995, regardin the Admeenistrative-territorial diveesion o the Republic o Armenie.

As o the beginnin o 2009, the population o the urban commonties wis 101,700; formin 35.8% o he province's tot population, while the rural commonties haed a population o 182,800; formin 64.2% o the province's population.

The province consists o the follaein 97 commonties (*hamaynkner*), o which 3 (**bauld** in the table) are considered urban an 94 are considered landwart. The diveesion belaw is bi *taratsashrjan*, the admeenistrative subdiveesions o Armenie afore 4 December 1995.

## Famous natives
Armenie-American composer Edward Manukyan an the late Armenian pop sangster Aram Asatryan wur baith born in this region.

## Gallery

File:Ejmiadzin Cathedral2.jpg|Etchmiadzin Cathedral, 303 AD, UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid
File:Surb Gayane Church.JPG|Saint Gayane Church, 630 AD, UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid
File:Zvartnots cathedral ruins.jpg|Zvartnots Cathedral, 7t century, UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid
File:Sardarapat memorial1.jpg|Sardarapat Battle memorial
File:Metsamor aerien.jpg|Metsamor Nuclear Pouer Plant


## References
* 


## Freemit airtins
* Armavir Marz Tourist Guide
Wadi-us-Salaam

**Wadi-us-Salaam** (Arabic وادي السلام ; Valley o Peace) is an Islamic cemetery, locatit in Shiite holy ceety o Najaf, Iraq. It is reputit tae be the lairgest cemetery in the warld. It is estimatit maire than hauf a million corpse are interred in the cemetery each year. The cemetery covers 1485.5 acres (6&nbsp;km²) an contains millions o bodies.

The cemetery haulds the graves o mony Islamic prophets, an is locatit near the Shrine o Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam an fowert Sunni Caliph. Thus, nearly aw Shi'as in Iraq request that thay be buriet in this cemetery.

## References

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*Satellite photograph o the cemetery