As a result of the wars the Ottoman Empire greatly expanded Expansion its territory on the Balkan peninsula , stretching Expansion from Danube to the Aegean Sea .

In the same year the Ottomans seized their first fortress on the Balkans , Tsimpe on the Gallipoli peninsula , setting Placing firm foot in Europe .

israeli defense minister ehud barak warned Warning that the incident Attack should be a `` wake up call '' for egypt in dealing Resolve_problem with terrorists Terrorism in the sinai peninsula , while egyptian president mohamed morsi vowed Commitment to retake Conquering the sinai peninsula and declared Expressing_publicly three days of mourning Social_event .

israeli defense minister ehud barak warned Warning that the incident Attack should be a `` wake up call '' for egypt in dealing Resolve_problem with terrorists Terrorism in the sinai peninsula , while egyptian president mohamed morsi vowed Commitment to retake Conquering the sinai peninsula and declared Expressing_publicly three days of mourning Social_event .

Greek troops moved Motion from Smyrna outwards to towns on the Karaburun peninsula , to Selçuk , situated Placing a hundred kilometers south of Smyrna at a key location that commands Control the fertile Küçük Menderes River valley , and to Menemen towards the north .

After open war Hostile_encounter reignited Recovering in 143 , Rome sent Sending a series of generals to the Iberian peninsula to deal with the Numantines .

A swift advance Cause_to_make_progress by the Australians along the northern coast of the peninsula followed and in January 1944 they captured Conquering Sio .

It quickly strengthened Cause_change_of_strength to a tropical storm , and then a hurricane Catastrophe , before making landfall Arriving on Haiti 's southwest peninsula .

Reaching Arriving Category 4 strength about 24 hours after having been upgraded Cause_to_make_progress to a hurricane , Gustav brushed Motion the Isle of Youth and made landfall Arriving on Cuba 's western 's peninsula .

The Matanikau River area included Cause_to_be_included a peninsula called Request Point Cruz , the village of Kokumbona , and a series of ridges and ravines stretching inland from the coast .

operation blowdown was an explosives test Testing carried out Military_operation in the iron range jungle of australia 's cape york peninsula in 1963 , to simulate Hold the effects of a nuclear weapon on tropical rainforest .

After traveling Traveling across the Atlantic Ocean , the storm Catastrophe system hit Attack parts of Great Britain and Ireland and the Scandinavian peninsula , causing Causation even more widespread blackouts and a small number of deaths Death in the region .

It ended Process_end with the defeat Conquering of Granada and its annexation by Castile , ending Process_end all Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula .

The aftermath of the war Hostile_encounter ended Process_end `` convivencia '' ( `` live and let live '' ) between religions In the Iberian peninsula : the Jews were forced to convert Change to Christianity or be exiled in 1492 , and by 1501 , all of Granada 's Muslims were obliged to convert Change to Christianity , become Becoming slaves , or be exiled ; by 1526 this prohibition spread Dispersal to the rest Placing of Spain .

In between these two kingdoms was that of Engria ( or Engern ) and north of these three , at the base of the Jutland peninsula , was Nordalbingia .

970 until 1018 , a series of conflicts Hostile_encounter between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire led to Causation the gradual conquest Conquering of Bulgaria by the Byzantines , who thus re-established Recovering their control Control over the entire Balkan peninsula for the first time since the 7th-century Slavic invasions Attack .

in his first meeting with a middle east nation since his confirmation as defense secretary , mark esper met with egypt 's minister of defense mohammad zaki and pressed Self_motion him to use Using unk tactics in the effort in the sinai peninsula .

The United Nations declared Expressing_publicly it to be one of the most serious incidents Catastrophe since the end of the Korean War , and by December 18 , former UN ambassador Bill Richardson said Statement tensions had escalated Expansion to become Becoming `` the most serious crisis on the Korean peninsula since the 1953 armistice , which ended Process_end the Korean War '' .

The Iranians defeated Conquering the Iraqi defenders , mostly Iraqi Popular Army , capturing Conquering the tip of the peninsula , including Iraq 's main air control and warning center covering Persian Gulf , as well as limiting Iraq 's access to the ocean .

although the battle Hostile_encounter officially ended Process_end in march 1986 , related fighting continued for two years until april 1988 , when iraq recaptured Conquering the al-faw peninsula at the second battle of al-faw .

this was used Using to take down two sri lankan air force avro aircraft flying Motion over the jaffna peninsula .

In 1956 , Israel invaded Attack the Sinai peninsula in Egypt , one objective being to re-open the Straits of Tiran which Egypt had blocked Hiding_objects to Israeli shipping since 1950 .

israel seized Hold the gaza strip and the sinai peninsula from egypt , the west bank from jordan , including east jerusalem , and the golan heights from syria .

The depression soon made landfall on the peninsula and weakened Cause_change_of_strength before reemerging in the Gulf of Mexico on July 4 .

Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston fended Defending off McClellan 's repeated attempts to take Motion the city , slowing Hindering Union progress on the peninsula to a crawl .

It crossed Motion_directional the peninsula and emerged Coming_to_be into the Bay of Campeche weakened Cause_change_of_strength , but still remained Presence a hurricane Catastrophe .

The cyclone then turned Motion sharply to the northeast , accelerated Influence , and strengthened Cause_change_of_strength to a hurricane , within 30 hours crossing Motion_directional the southern Florida peninsula .

Weakening Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as it moved Motion across the Florida peninsula over the course of the next day , the storm Catastrophe briefly moved Motion over the Gulf of Mexico before recurving Self_motion northwards .

Kathleen brushed the Pacific coast of the peninsula as a hurricane Catastrophe on September 9 and made Manufacturing landfall as a fast-moving Self_motion tropical storm Catastrophe the next day .

On April 21 , 1898 , after the sinking of in Havana Harbor and prior to its declaration of war on April 25 , the United States launched Process_start a naval blockade of the Spanish colony island of Cuba , off its southern coast of the peninsula of Florida .

The hurricane Catastrophe quickly traversed Motion_directional the Florida peninsula before emerging into the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers .

After crossing Motion_directional the Florida peninsula and entering Arriving the Gulf of Mexico , the system reached Arriving peak intensity as a Category 1 hurricane Catastrophe , before subsequently making Arriving its final landfall Attack near the Mississippi–Alabama border on September 1 .

Henriette then turned Becoming north and headed Motion towards the Baja California peninsula , and became Becoming a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale .

As a tropical wave , Gert crossed Motion_directional Honduras and the Yucatán peninsula before organizing into Tropical Depression Seven on the afternoon of July 23 in the Bay of Campeche .

With Captain Karl von Müller in command Control , on the night of 22 September 1914 , SMS `` Emden '' quietly approached Arriving the city of Madras on the southeastern coast of the Indian peninsula .

The assault troops , mostly from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) , landed Self_motion at night on the western ( Aegean Sea ) side of the peninsula .

Sweeping across the peninsula in September 2014 , Odile inflicted Causation widespread damage Damaging , particularly in the state of Baja California Sur , in addition to causing Causation lesser impacts on the Mexican mainland and Southwestern United States .

Precautionary measures on the Baja California Peninsula began Process_start in earnest after Odile unexpectedly took Creating a direct course towards the peninsula .

Due to the unanticipated threat Warning of Odile , approximately 26,000 foreign tourists were stranded Motion on the peninsula at the time of landfall .

initially , the storm Catastrophe moved Motion towards the east and across the cape york peninsula .

As a result of the JNA pullback , the Prevlaka peninsula was demilitarized and placed Placing under United Nations control Control until 1996 .

Typhoon Catastrophe Saomai , known Know in the Philippines as Typhoon Osang , was a long-tracked and intense tropical cyclone that brought Bringing flooding rainfall in Japan and the Korean peninsula in September 2000 .

at the hurricane 's first landfall Motion near the northeastern tip of the UNK peninsula , little information was documented Recording on the storm 's impacts Influence .

Italian unification ( ) , also known as the Risorgimento ( , ; meaning `` the Resurgence '' ) , was the political and social movement that consolidated Cause_change_of_strength different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century .

The train dispatcher central chose Choosing to lead Communication the runaway train in the direction of Sjursøya , along the Loenga–Alnabru Line , where it derailed Self_motion and rolled Motion through a Statoil building in the terminal area at Sjursøya , a peninsula which is part of the Oslo ports facilities .

Quickly crossing Motion_directional the peninsula , Emily emerged Coming_to_be into the Gulf of Mexico and reorganized Cause_to_amalgamate .

Frustrated Influence by the wasted effort , and with demands for action from their citizens , the allied force decided Deciding to attack Attack Russia 's main naval base in the Black Sea at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula .

After extended Expansion preparations , the forces Causation landed Motion on the peninsula in September 1854 and marched Self_motion their way to a point south of Sevastopol after the successful Battle of the Alma .

Even after Manzikert , Byzantine rule over Asia Minor did not end Process_end immediately , nor were any heavy concessions levied Imposing_obligation by the Turks on their opponents – it took Conquering another 20 years before the Turks were in control Control of the entire Anatolian peninsula and not for long either .

at the outcome of the cairo conference of november unk , 1943 , the allies of world war ii decided Deciding to restrain and punish Rewards_and_punishments the aggression of japan by restoring all the territories that japan annexed from china , including manchuria , unk , and the pescadores , to china , and to expel japan from the korean peninsula .