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    Cape Arkona (German: Kap Arkona) is a 45-metre (150-foot) high cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It forms the tip of the...
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    The Cape Arkona Lighthouse (German: Leuchtturm Kap Arkona) comprises two lighthouses and a radio navigation tower on the German Baltic Sea coast in...
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    of Rügen at Cape Arkona, and was protected on two sides by the cliffed coast and from the land side by a Slavic burgwall. At Cape Arkona in recent centuries...
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    Polabian Slavs. His organized cult was located on the island of Rügen, at Cape Arkona, where his main temple was also located. According to the descriptions...
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  • Arkona may refer to: Cape Arkona on the German island of Rügen Arkona (band), a Russian folk metal band Arkona, Ontario Arkona, (1985-2002) a cruise ship...
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    the Breeger Bodden. The Wittow peninsula is adjoined in the north by Cape Arkona. Just under a kilometre to the northwest, located at 54°41' N, is the...
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    Pomeranian Voivodeship) Hiddensee (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/Western Pomerania) Cape Arkona (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/Western Pomerania) In Lechitic languages the...
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    Mawson Peak Satellite image of the southern tip of Heard Island. Cape Arkona is seen on the left side of the image, with Lied Glacier just above and Gotley...
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    Headland (redirect from Cape (headland))
    Gris-Nez, France Cape Arkona, Germany Cape Eminem, Bulgary Cape Enniberg, Faroe Islands Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain Cape Greco, Cyprus Cape Kaliakra, Bulgaria...
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    was limited by the local senate, which was led by the high priest at Cape Arkona; the Rani knez was essentially first among the tribe's landowners. The...
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    Baltic Sea island of Rügen, more precisely on the Wittow peninsula near Cape Arkona. The village is part of the municipality of Putgarten. Because of its...
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    proper. The Bornholm Basin is the area east of Bornholm, and the shallower Arkona Basin extends from Bornholm to the Danish isles of Falster and Zealand....
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    SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison...
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    be identical with Vineta and Jomsborg. Important pagan temple sites were Arkona and Rethra. Other local strongholds were Dimin (Demmin) in the Circipan...
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    Cape Arkona is a rocky headland between the mouths of Lied Glacier and Gotley Glacier on the southwest side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean...
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    call. At 05:12, the ship capsized about 24 km (15 mi) off the coast of Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen. Survivors stated that the ship capsized so quickly...
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    by Prinz Eugen, which had departed the previous night at 21:18, off Cape Arkona. The two ships were escorted by three destroyers—Z10 Hans Lody, Z16 Friedrich...
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    Stoewer Arkona was manufactured in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) by Stoewer automotive company between 1937 and 1940. It was named after Cape Arkona...
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    resistance occurred at the temple-stronghold of Svetovid at Cape Arkona, in Rugia. The temple at Arkona had a squared groundplan, with an inner hall sustained...
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    southern coastline resembles the White Cliffs of Dover, Møns Klint and Cape Arkona, but owing to a higher degree of sand and lower of chalk, the 50-metre-high...
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    northernmost tip of the island of Rugia called Gellort northwest of Cape Arkona in the west, and the village of Jarosławiec in the east. In the south...
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    Big Ben Satellite image of the southern tip of Heard Island. Cape Arkona is seen on the left side of the image, with Lied Glacier just above and Gotley...
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    Jasmund Hel Mönchgut Reddevitz Höft Rewa Sandbar Cape Rozewie Cape Rzucewo Westerplatte Wittow Cape Arkona Bug Schaabe Zudar Palmer Ort Rivers Brda Drawa...
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    ] und nahmen 1168 an König Waldemar I. Kriegszug gegen die Ranen teil. Arkona wurde erobert und zerstört. Die unterlegenen Ranen versprachen, das Christentum...
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    Pebble beach made up of flint nodules eroded from the nearby chalk cliffs, Cape Arkona, Rügen, northeast Germany...
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  • Plisnensk Volodymyr Vyshhorod Zvenyhorod Novgorod Grodno the fort at Cape Arkona – the Jaromarsburg Garz Castle the fort of Charenza near Venz in the...
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    of ground and open water and 5 Group was to fly an approach run from Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, to Thiessow to check time and heading. From Thiessow...
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    Slavic paganism was the Rani, with a temple to their god Svetovid on Cape Arkona, which was taken in a campaign by Valdemar I of Denmark in 1168.[citation...
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    are genetically more similar to the North Sea cod. In the Arkona basin (located off Cape Arkona, Rügen), spawning and migrating cod from both the eastern...
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    Atlantic sortie. On 18 May, Prinz Eugen rendezvoused with Bismarck off Cape Arkona. The two ships were escorted by three destroyers—Hans Lody, Z16 Friedrich...
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