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The Arcadia Formation is composed of limestones and dolomites which are yellowish gray to light olive gray to light brown in color. The texture is micro to finely crystalline with varying sandy, clayey limestones and dolomites containing phosphate. The clays are yellowish gray to light olive gray in color. They are moderately hard as well as ...
Arcadia ( Ukrainian: Аркадія, romanized : Arkadiia) is a historical part of Odesa, Ukraine, which is known as a famous resort. It is located in the coastal part of the city, close to the quarters of 5th and 7th stations of Velyky Fontan. The quarter was named after a mountainous district in Greece, which was known as the home of pastoral ...
Varadinum (Oradea) in a 1617 engraving by Braun & Hogenberg. The history of Oradea is the story of the Romanian city from Neolithic times, through the Middle Ages when it flourished as an important center in Crișana, until its modern existence as the seat of Bihor County .
Arcadia (Greek: Αρκαδία) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature.The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later caused the word Arcadia to develop into a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.
Oradea ( UK: / ɒˈrɑːdiə /, US: / ɔːˈr -, - djɑː /, [5] [6] [7] Romanian: [oˈrade̯a]; German: Großwardein [ˌɡʁoːsvaʁˈdaɪn]; Hungarian: Nagyvárad [ˈnɒɟvaːrɒd]) is a city in Romania, located in the Crișana region. The seat of Bihor County, Oradea is one of the most important economic, social and cultural centers in the ...
Location. Arcadia. Coordinates. 46°25′41″N 30°45′57″E. / 46.42806°N 30.76583°E / 46.42806; 30.76583. Arcadia Park ( Ukrainian: Парк Аркадія, Park Arkadiya) is a small park in Odesa, Ukraine, located up to 2014 in the historical quarter Arcadia, at the end of the Genuezska Street, down from the 10th of April Square ...
The Arcadia Conference was a secret agreement unlike the much wider postwar plans given to the public as the Atlantic Charter, agreed between Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941. From the start, significant differences in strategic priorities appeared. The British sought to push the Axis out of the Mediterranean, securing their lines of ...
The following is a timeline of Oradea, a city in western Romania, between the 9th and 16th centuries. 9th-10th centuries: According to Gesta Hungarorum , Menumorut ruled the area - with a citadel centered in Bihar - until the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin .