They controlled the Volga trade route ( Route from the Varangians to the Arabs ), connecting the Baltic to the Caspian Sea, and the Dnieper trade route ( Route from the Varangians to the Greeks ) leading to the Black Sea and Constantinople.

Oil has been discovered under the North Sea.

Just north of the Dead Sea is Jericho.

A series of trials were then conducted, first in the North Sea and then in the Baltic.

It is situated on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland.

The Danish Islands, the next in the chain to the north, arose from sandbanks.

We can stop the collision course of 50 percent of the planet with the high seas.

The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Baltic and North Seas.

Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea, containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union.

Northern krill occur across the Atlantic from the Mediterranean Sea northward.

In 1932 the Afsluitdijk ( Closure Dike ) was completed, blocking the former Zuiderzee (Southern Sea) from the North Sea and thus creating the IJsselmeer (IJssel Lake).

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.

In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

In 1848, these two vessels surveyed the northern part of the sea.

Norwegians on the other hand lived on the North Sea and Atlantic coasts, and were connected to the islands of the North Atlantic.

Frisia or Friesland is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea, i.e.

It was created in 1965, and is located in the city of Parnamirim, near Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

Norway is located to the northeast of Scotland across the North Sea.

Silverpit crater is a buried sub sea structure under the North Sea off the coast of the island of Great Britain.

Another possible link between the Cimmerians from rivers Tyras and Tanais and the Nordic countries and possibly the Sicambri of the lower Rhine is the fact that the eastern amber road was a trade link between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea over which there was a diffusion of cultures.

He killed Joaquim and climbed up there

Geography Hyōgo has coastlines on two seas to the north, the Sea of Japan, to the south, the Seto Inland Sea.

I wonder if the sea level really will rise when the ice at the North Pole melts.

Geography The Isle of Man is located in the middle of the northern Irish Sea, almost equidistant from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland (closest), and Wales (furthest).

The Kara Sea (, Karskoe More ) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.

Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig Holstein, with a population of 240,832 (June 2014).

The main artery is the B3 which runs a north south route along Müllheim's western side.

Samsun is a city with a population over half a million people on the north coast of Turkey.

London became the principal North Sea port, with migrants arriving from England and abroad.

Like much of northern Japan, the prefecture has cold winters, particularly away from the sea.

Originating along the Japanese islands this current passes through the Sea of Japan then divides along either shore of Sakhalin Island, eventually flowing into the northern Pacific Ocean via the strait north of Hokkaidō and into the Sea of Okhotsk north of Sakhalin Island near Vladivostok.

Seiches can also form in semi enclosed seas the North Sea often experiences a lengthwise seiche with a period of about 36 hours.

The Scophthalmidae are a family of flatfish found in the North Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.

Now what you can see is we've sampled the area in the North Atlantic, in the North Sea in particular, and also the east coast of North America fairly well.

The Thames Barrier was completed in the 1980s to protect London against tidal surges from the North Sea.

It borders (clockwise from the North) on the Netherlands, the Flemish province of East Flanders ( Oost Vlaanderen ) and the Walloon province of Hainaut ( Henegouwen ) in Belgium, on France, and the North Sea.

In addition to the expansion of the fleet the Kiel Canal was opened in 1895 enabling faster movements between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

It shares a border with England to the south, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south west.

For example, these tuna that were once so abundant in the North Sea are now effectively gone.

The Beaufort Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands.

Not only are his Baltic Sea and English Channel dry, but most of the North Sea and a vast region to the west, easily including Ireland, are, too.

Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean France covers and has a population of 66.6 million.

Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to its west and north, the North Sea to its east and the English Channel to its south.

It borders the North Sea to the west, North Holland to the north, Utrecht and Gelderland to the east, and North Brabant and Zeeland to the south.