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unusual facts about southern Europe



Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs

The Department of State established a Division of Near Eastern Affairs in 1909, which dealt with Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe as well as with the Middle East.

Tragopogon dubius

Tragopogon dubius (western salsify, western goat's-beard, wild oysterplant, yellow salsify, yellow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify, salsify) is a species of Salsify native to southern and central Europe and western Asia and found as far north and west as northern France.

Trithemis kirbyi

It is also present in southern Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean Islands and South Asia - India.


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414th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron

From airfields around Foggia, conducted long-range strategic bombardment missions over Southern Europe and the Balkans of enemy targets until the German Capitulation in May 1945.

Alexander Chernogorov

Alexander Leonidovich Chernogorov (born July 13, 1959 in Vozdvizhenka, Stavropol Krai, Russia) was the governor of Stavropol Krai in the southern European part of Russia.

Alfred Stepan

He has authored and edited a large number of books, including "Arguing Comparative Politics", (Oxford University Press, 2001), and, co-authored with Juan Linz and Yogendra Yadav, "Democracy in Multinational Societies: India and Other Polities", (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and with Juan Linz, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Alnus incana

— Northern Europe and northwestern Asia, and central and southern Europe in mountains, mainly in the regions of the Alps, Carpathians and the Caucasus.

Boletus luteocupreus

Boletus luteocupreus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to southern Europe, where it is found under chestnut (Castanea).

Bosna

Bosnia and Herzegovina or Bosna i Hercegovina, a country in southern Europe

C. monspeliensis

Cistus monspeliensis, the Montpelier cistus, a plant species native to southern Europe and northern Africa

Clovis culture

The controversial Solutrean hypothesis proposed in 1999 by Smithsonian archaeologist Dennis Stanford and colleague Bruce Bradley (Stanford and Bradley 2002), suggests that the Clovis people could have inherited technology from the Solutrean people who lived in southern Europe 21,000–15,000 years ago, and who created the first Stone Age artwork in present-day southern France.

Comiso Airport

From 1983 to 1991 Comiso Air Base was the largest NATO base in southern Europe and housed 112 BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles,.

Damone

Anthocharis damone, a butterfly endemic to parts of Southern Europe and the Middle East commonly known as the Eastern Orange Tip

Face of a Hero

Though out of print for a long time, interest in this narrative, dealing with the war experience of a B-24 tail gunner in Southern Europe during W.W.II, was rekindled when it was suggested that it inspired Joseph Heller while writing his well-known war novel Catch-22.

Forest dormouse

The range of the forest dormouse is from Switzerland in the west, through central, eastern and southern Europe, the Balkan Peninsula, northward to the Baltic Sea and eastward to the Volga River and the Ural Mountains in Russia.

Georges Frêche

Building on the trend started by his predecessor François Delmas, who landed the Southern Europe IBM factory and headquarters as well as the scientific university, Frêche expanded Montpellier in all directions, propelling it from the 25th-largest city in France to the eighth, in less than 30 years.

Hassi R'Mel

The National Centre For Dispatching Gas is also starting point for the Maghreb-Europe, Trans-Mediterranean, Medgaz and Galsi gas export pipelines supplying Southern Europe.

Jonquil

Narcissus jonquilla, the jonquil, a narcissus with clusters of small fragrant yellow flowers and cylindrical leaves, native to southern Europe and northeastern Africa

Juan José Linz

He is the author of many works on the subject, including Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, co-authored with Alfred Stepan), his seminal work Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (Rienner, 2000) and his influential essay 'The Perils of Presidentialism'.

L. glaber

Lotus glaber, the narrow-leaf bird's-foot trefoil, a flowering plant species native to western and southern Europe and southwest Asia

L. perennis

Lactuca perennis, the blue lettuce or perennial lettuce,a plant species present in most of the Central and Southern Europe

Matt Frei

From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome, and covered events in Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa and various Mafia-related stories.

Ophrys lutea

Widely distributed in the Mediterranean area and in Atlantic regions of southern Europe, as far as the Charente in the north-west.

P. aurantiaca

Pilosella aurantiaca, the fox-and-cubs, orange hawkweed, tawny Hawkweed, Devil's paintbrush or Grim-the-collier, a flowering plant species native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe

Polydesma umbricola

It is found in Southern Europe, Africa, minor Asia to Southern Asia, including many Indian Ocean islands, like Coëtivy Island, Aldabra, Assumption Island, Madagascar and on Hawaii.

Rory Carroll

In late 1999 he was posted to Rome as Southern Europe correspondent for The Guardian, where he wrote on topics such as The Vatican, Silvio Berlusconi, Macedonia, immigration and human trafficking from northern Africa, and the Middle East.

S. maritima

Spartina maritima, the small cordgrass, a cordgrass species native to the coasts of western and southern Europe and western Africa

Season

For example, prevernal crocus blooms typically appear as early as February in mild coastal areas of British Columbia, the British Isles, and western and southern Europe.

Simplimorpha promissa

It is widely distributed in southern Europe with the northern limit running approximately along the southern slopes of the Alps and along the Danube.

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet

He moved to Prague in 1947, returned to the Foreign Office again in 1949 as head of the Southern Europe department with the rank of Counsellor, and was posted to Paris in 1951 with the same rank.

Sorbus chamaemespilus

Sorbus chamaemespilus (False Medlar or Dwarf Whitebeam) is a species of Sorbus native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to the Carpathians and the Balkans, growing at altitudes of up to 2500 m.

Southern Swallowtail

Papilio alexanor, a black-and-yellow butterfly found in Southern Europe and Western to Central Asia

Spiros Latsis

The Latsis family fortune, managed by Spiros Latsis, includes more than 30% in Hellenic Petroleum, a major petroleum player in Southern Europe, through his ownership of Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holdings S.A..

Tethysaurus

The name means "Tethys' lizard of Nopsca", a reference to the Greek goddess of the sea Tethys (also the name of the Tethys Ocean, an ancient sea between southern Europe and northern Africa) and to the Hungarian paleontologist Baron Ferenc Nopsca, who made pioneering studies on Adriatic aquatic squamates.

Winter savory

Winter savory (Satureja montana) is a perennial herb in the family Lamiaceae, native to warm temperate regions of southern Europe.

Wotton Hill SSSI

The plant grows in mountainous regions in central and southern Europe, and its alternative name is Alpine Woundwort.

Yuri Nemyrych

He studied at the Racovian Academy in Raków, Kielce County, then in Leiden, and travelled across Western and Southern Europe, and then back at Leiden.