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Sourced using AISwahili settlement flourishing c. 11th–16th centuries; abandoned by early 17th century · Kilifi County, near Malindi
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Read record →Sourced using AILate nineteenth century · Adyar, Madras Presidency
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Bangkok vicinity
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AIMay 2020 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 · Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · San Juan
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary–February 1958 · Rio de Janeiro and Ilha da Trindade
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Daejeon
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s; older local reports claimed · Bili and Bondo forests, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Read record →Sourced using AITwelfth century onward; attributed material has earlier legendary components · Britain in literary setting; circulation through European manuscripts
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Wilmington, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s · Shanghai
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · English Channel airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1886 · Montevideo
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Zagreb and Medvednica, Croatia
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Hessdalen Valley, Sør-Trøndelag
Read record →Sourced using AI1937–1938 · Central Arctic Ocean
Read record →Sourced using AI1932–1935 · Northern Argentina / Chaco frontier
Read record →Sourced using AI1921 · Manaus, Amazonas
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional tale; postwar film, theatre, and tourism treatments during 1947–1969 · Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture
Read record →Sourced using AISpring 1897 · California Pacific coast and interior valleys, United States
Read record →Sourced using AILate antiquity to medieval period · Egypt and wider Near East
Read record →Sourced using AI1890s · Warsaw
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia
Read record →Sourced using AI15 October 1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI2011 · Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Ahmedabad, Bombay State
Read record →Sourced using AI2011, exact date uncertain · Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport, Liberia, Guanacaste
Read record →Sourced using AI3–4 June 1942 · Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Allentown, Pennsylvania
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · RAAF Williamtown, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI2013, exact date to verify · Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Charleroi, Hainaut
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Windsor, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 2–19, 1937 · Howland Island and central Pacific
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 (exact date requires verification) · Atlanta, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AI1946 · St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Oklahoma, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIancient site; remembered through classical and later accounts · Siwa Oasis, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI13th century Norwegian text; copied in later manuscripts · Greenland, Iceland, northern ocean, sea ice
Read record →Sourced using AIArchaeological disputes during 1900–1946 · Masvingo Province
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Haiti and Haitian diaspora
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique Jewish mystical text, surviving in medieval transmission · Jewish communities of Palestine and Babylonia; exact origin disputed
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Southeast Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Bologna, Italy
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