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  2. Middle East - Wikipedia

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    The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.

  3. East African Court of Justice - Wikipedia

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    The East African Court of Justice ( EACJ) is a treaty-based judicial body of the East African Community tasked to ensure adherence to law in the interpretation and application of and compliance with the East African Community Treaty of 1999. The Court is made up of two divisions: a First Instance Division and an Appellate Division. [1]

  4. East African mangroves - Wikipedia

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    Tanzania. Elevation. sea level. Conservation. Conservation status. Critical/endangered [1] Protected. 843 km² (45%) [2] The East African mangroves are a mangrove ecoregion consisting of swamps along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and southern Somalia.

  5. Italian East Africa - Wikipedia

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    Italian East Africa. Italian East Africa ( Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) [3] was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire. [4]

  6. East African campaign (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...

  7. East London, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    East London, South Africa. /  33.01750°S 27.90472°E  / -33.01750; 27.90472. East London ( Xhosa: eMonti; Afrikaans: Oos-Londen) is a city on the southeastern coast of South Africa, [3] in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province. The city lies on the Indian Ocean coast, largely between the Buffalo River and the ...

  8. Italian East African lira - Wikipedia

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    The Italian East African lira was seen as a possible bribery, and it was immediately replaced by the East African shilling in 1941, when the United Kingdom gained control of Italy's colonies, at the rate of 1 shilling = 24 lire. The banknotes retired by the British government were later used by the British Army when it occupied Italy between ...

  9. Obesity in the Middle East and North Africa - Wikipedia

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    Obesity in the Middle East and North Africa is a notable health issue. Out of the fifteen fattest nations in the world as of 2014 (according to the World Health Organization [WHO]), 5 were located in the Middle East and North Africa region. [1] In 2005, the WHO measured that 1.6 billion people were overweight and 400 million were obese.