WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2024_Kursk_Oblast...

    On 6 August 2024, Russia reportedly deployed air and artillery forces to counter a Ukrainian border incursion in Kursk Oblast. Ukrainian fighters, equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, crossed into Russian territory. The Russian Ministry of Defense responded by sending troops and aviation units to the area.

  3. Kostas Krystallis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Krystallis

    Kostas Krystallis. Kostas Krystallis (Greek: Κώστας Κρυστάλλης; 1868–1894) was an Aromanian ethnic, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after being denounced to the authorities for writing a patriotic collection of ...

  4. Kursi, Sea of Galilee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursi,_Sea_of_Galilee

    Kursi, Sea of Galilee. Kursi (Medieval Greek: Κυρσοί, Hebrew: כורסי, Arabic: الكرسي) is an archaeological site in the Golan Heights containing the ruins of a Byzantine monastery and identified by tradition as the site of Jesus ' "Miracle of the Swine". [1] Part of the archaeological site is now an Israeli national park.

  5. Kursk - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk

    Kursk (Russian: Курск, IPA: [ˈkursk]) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. It has a population of 440,052 (2021 Census).

  6. Gergesa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gergesa

    Gergesa, also Gergasa (Γέργεσα in Byzantine greek) or the Country of the Gergesenes, is a place on the eastern (Golan Heights) side of the Sea of Galilee located at some distance to the ancient Decapolis cities of Gadara and Gerasa. Today, it is identified with El-Koursi or Kursi. It is mentioned in some ancient manuscripts of the Gospel ...

  7. Golan Heights - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights

    Golan Heights. The Golan Heights (Arabic: هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, romanized:Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or مُرْتَفَعَاتُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Murtafaʻātu l-Jawlān; Hebrew: רמת הגולן, Ramat HaGolan, pronunciation ⓘ), or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau, at the southwest corner of Syria.

  8. Battle of Kursk - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk

    The battle of Kursk is considered the biggest land battle of the Second World War, indeed the biggest in all of military history. During the fighting the two sides deployed more than 4 million troops, 69,000 cannon and launchers, 13,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, and almost 12,000 aircraft.

  9. Kamala Harris - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

    Kamala Devi Harris (/ ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi / ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee[2]) (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving with President Joe Biden. She is the first female, African American, and Asian American vice president, making her the ...