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Lakki Street
Lakki may refer to: Places * Lakki, Chabahar, Iran * Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan * Lakki, Leros, Greece * Lakkoi, or Lakki, Crete, Greece * Latchi, or Lakki, Polis, Cyprus * Lakki hills The Lakki hills, or Laki hills is a range in the Sindh, in Pakistan, to the south of the Manchar Lake. The range is about long, connected with the Kirthar Mountains and running east towards Sehwan where they terminate on the west bank of the Indu ..., Sindh, Pakistan Other uses * ''Lakki'' (film), a 1992 Norwegian film See also * Laki (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakki, Chabahar
Lakki (, also Romanized as Lakkī) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 53, in 11 families. References Populated places in Chabahar County {{Chabahar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakki Marwat
Lakki Marwat or Lakki (Urdu and ) is the headquarters of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Lakki Marwat has become List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, one of the fastest growing cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Lakki Marwat is also the List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, 20th most populous city in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. History Origins Lakki was first called by the name of "Thal Daman", which means an open sandy plain.Sher Mohammad Khan Mohmand, ''The Marwats'', (Peshawar, 1999) pp. 17-22 The first evidence of civilization in the plains of Thal Daman and the spread of Islam in Bannu is indicated by the graves of Ashaab on the left bank of the Kurram River. In addition, contemporary historians write about Bannu in their works. Al-Baladuri wrote that "In the year 44 H. [664 AD], and in the days of the Muawiyah I, Khalif Muawiya, Muhallib son of Abu Safra made war upon the same frontier, and advanced as far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakki, Leros
Lakki (), known as Portolago (Πόρτο Λάγο) until 1947, is a community on the Greek island of Leros, in the Dodecanese, at the head of Lakki Bay. The population was 2,093 at the 2021 census. The area was built up as the main base of the Italian Royal Navy in the Dodecanese starting in 1923. The town of Portolago was founded in the 1930s, under Italian rule, as a new model town, most of whose inhabitants were from the Italian military. After Leros was transferred to Greece in 1947, it was renamed Lakki. History During Ottoman times, the area was known as Lakki and had just a few fishing huts. Following the Italo-Turkish War in 1912, the Dodecanese became part of Italy. As one of the largest bays in the Aegean, the Italians saw its potential as a naval base to expand their military presence in the eastern Mediterranean. In the 1920s and 30s, an entire town was built from scratch by the architects Armando Bernabiti and Rodolfo Petracco. The resulting town was named Portol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakkoi
Lakkoi (), commonly spelled Lakki on road signs and maps, is a village on the Greece, Greek island of Crete in the foothills of the Lefka Ori (White Mountains). The village is situated on the road between Chania and the plateau of Omalos which leads to the Samaria Gorge. Geography Lakkoi is 450 metres high, below the White Mountains which rise another 1,000 metres to the south. Most of the houses cling to steep slopes covered in olive and chestnut trees, reached through narrow roads or tracks that run down from the main square. The climate is cool in winter, with occasional snow, wet in spring, hot and dry in the summer. In the 2007 Greek forest fires, unusually dry summer of 2007, major brush fires broke out twice, burning about and threatening the village itself. Economy Traditionally the villagers have cultivated olives and raised goats, sheep and chickens. With limited work opportunities, the population has declined from a peak of around 2,000 to 219 (2021 census). There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latchi
Latchi (), also spelled Lachi, Latsi and Lakki, is a small village that is part of the Polis municipality in Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl .... It has a small harbour. Altitude Latchi is located 7 m above sea level. References External links File:Latchi, Cyprus - panoramio.jpg File:Latchi beach IMG 9724 - panoramio.jpg * Polis, Cyprus {{Cyprus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakki Hills
The Lakki hills, or Laki hills is a range in the Sindh, in Pakistan, to the south of the Manchar Lake. The range is about long, connected with the Kirthar Mountains and running east towards Sehwan where they terminate on the west bank of the Indus. The highest hills are between . The hills are of recent volcanic origin as shown by frequent hot springs and sulfuric exhalations. It has been totally neglected and only ruins remain today, all because of Islamic conquest. History A Chinese Buddhist scholar and traveller Xuanzang alias Hiuen Tsang visited Sindh in the seventh century and described that there were 273 Hindu temples here, out of which 235 belonged to Pashupata Shivaites, which is another order of Shivaism. In his magnum opus, "Sindh Revisited", 19th century British scholar and traveller Sir Richard Francis Burton describes Laki as a place of pilgrimage for Hindus. The devotees called the streams dharan tirtha, which means "constant flow of the earth in a holy place". Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakki (film)
''Lakki'' (Lakki ... The Boy Who Could Fly) is a Norwegian drama film from 1992 directed by Svend Wam and produced by Petter Vennerød—a collaboration known as ''Wam og Vennerød''. The film is based on Per Knutsen's 1988 novel ''Gutten som kunne fly'' (The Boy Who Could Fly). Wam was nominated for the Amanda Award for the screenplay. Plot The story presents the life of 14-year-old Lakki, who dreams himself away from an insecure existence. Life consists of his party-crazy mother, his self-absorbed father, his violent high school teacher, and the pedophile Buddha-Man. Lakki often thinks of the time when his parents lived together and life was good. But even this joy was not untainted. He also remembers his insane grandfather, from whom he inherited his sweater. When Lakki is alone, he imagines that wings have begun to grow on his back so he can fly away from this painful world. He starts experimenting with drugs with the LSD seller Tim, and one day he starts hallucinating that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
