Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan in the east o the kintra. Its caipital is the ceety o Jalalabad. The population o the province is 1,334,000, which consists mainly o ethnic Pashtuns wi a sizable community o Arabs an Pashais.

Sousse

Sousse is a ceety in Tunisie. Locatit 140 km sooth o the caipital Tunis, the ceety haes 173,047 inhabitants (2004). Sousse is in the central-east o the kintra, on the Gulf o Hammamet, which is a pairt o the Mediterranean Sea. The name mey be o Berber

Al-Haffah Destrict

Al-Haffah Destrict is a Sirie destrict (mantiqah) admeenistratively belangin tae Latakia Govrenorate. The centre o the destrict is the ceety o Al-Haffah. At the 2004 Census it haed a population o 81,213

Benghazi

Benghazi /bɛnˈɡɑːzi/ is the seicont lairgest ceety in Libie. The wider metropolitan aurie is an aa a destrict o Libie. The port ceety is locatit on the Mediterranean Sea

Emblem o Yemen

The naitional emblem o Yemen depicts a gowden eagle wi a scroll atween its claws. On the scroll is written the name o the kintra in Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية or Al-Jumhuriyyah Al-Yamaniyah. The chest o the eagle contains a shield that

Sitra

Sitra is an island in the Central Govrenorate o Bahrain, juist east o Bahrain Island. It lies sooth o Manama an Nabih Saleh. The island's wastren coast forms the bundary o Tubli Bay

Ghadames

Ghadames or Ghadamis is an oasis toun in the wast o Libie. It lies roughly 549 km in the soothwast o Tripoli, near the borders wi Algerie an Tunisie

Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad servit as Prime Meenister o Sirie frae 1970 tae 1971 an preses o Sirie frae 1971 till his daith. Assad's rule stabilized an consolidatit the pouer o the kintra's central govrenment efter decades o coups an coonter-coups

Banner o Sirie

The current banner o Sirie wis re-adoptit in 1980. It is an aa the banner o the umwhile Unitit Arab Republic

Adana

Adana is a ceety in Turkey an a major agricultural an commercial center. The ceety is situatit on the Seyhan River, 30 kilometres inland frae the Mediterranean Sea, in sooth-central Anatolie. It is the admeenistrative seat o the Adana Province an haes a

Anne Mackintosh

Anne Mackintosh (1723–1784) wis a Scottish Jacobite o the Clan Farquharson, a Scottish clan belangin tae the Scottish Heilans an also the gweed wife o Angus Mackintosh, chief of the Clan Mackintosh. She wis the ainly female military leader tae tak pairt