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An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk. The historical definition of esplanade was a large, open, level area outside fortress or city walls to provide clear fields of fire for the fortress's guns. In modern usage, the space allows the area to be paved as a ...
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (also known as the Esplanade Theatres ( Malay: Teater di Persisiran) or simply The Esplanade) is a performing arts centre located in the Downtown Core of Singapore near the mouth of the Singapore River. Named after the nearby Esplanade Park, it consists of two rounded ...
Essad Toptani (1863/4 or 1875 – 13 June 1920) was an Albanian politician who served as prime minister of Albania from 1914 to 1916. He previously established the Republic of Central Albania based in Durrës.
English. Publisher. University of Texas Press. Publication date. 2009. ISBN. 9780292722729. Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade is a controversial 2009 interdisciplinary book concerning the history of the Temple Mount (referred to as al-Haram al-Sharif in Islam) written from an interfaith perspective.
Modern history During the 19th century the city thrived on the wine culture that it was able to produce due to the abundance of sun throughout the year. The wine consumption in France allowed Montpellier's citizens to become very wealthy until in the 1890s the phylloxera induced fungal disease had spread amongst the vineyards and the people ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in or scheduled for release in 2024.These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
Corfu is known as the island of the Phaeacians . The name Corfù is a Venetian and Italian version of the Byzantine Κορυφώ (Koryphō), meaning "city of the peaks". It derives from the Byzantine Greek Κορυφαί (Koryphai) (crests or peaks), denoting the two peaks of Palaio Frourio.
Esplanade, Kolkata. / 22.564955; 88.346346. Esplanade is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, located at the heart of city with being the city's Central business district. This is a conventional esplanade because the Ganga river ( Ganges ), also known as Hooghly river, flows nearby and it is adjacent to the large fields of Maidan extending upto ...