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Crete Naval Base (Ναύσταθμος Κρήτης)
Crete Naval Base (Ναύσταθμος Κρήτης), or Souda Naval Base, is the Hellenic Navy's main base on Souda Bay, Crete, hosting U.S. NSA Souda Bay and NATO facilities; naval base since 1959, U.S. presence since 1969.
Crîmpoaia/Ghioca
Crîmpoaia/Ghioca is a Roman auxiliary fort on the Limes Transalutanus at Reduta Tătarilor, Olt County, Romania, one of the county's two certain Roman forts.
Criscencio
Criscencio is the late antique name of a Roman villa in southwestern Gaul, identified tentatively with Creyssens, commune of Le Boulvé, France; attested AD 300-640, cited from Barrington Atlas 14 G4 and Pleiades place 138317.
Crispiana
Crispiana, an ancient Roman road station in Pannonia Superior on the Antonine Itinerary between Cimbrianis and Arrabona, near modern Zirc, Hungary; namesake of the Crispinian Horse cavalry unit at Roman Doncaster.
Cristeşti
Cristeşti, also known as Cetatea de pământ, is a Roman settlement in Transylvania, Romania, occupied in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. In 2026, a cemetery was discovered.
Crixia
Crixia, a Roman mansio in Liguria on the road from Aquae Statiellae to Vada Sabatia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with Piana Crixia, Savona.
Croajingolong National Park
Croajingolong National Park, far-east Victoria, Australia: 100 km coastal park, 87,500 ha, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with Nadgee; eucalypt forest, rainforest, heathland, Thurra Dunes, Point Hicks Lightstation.
Crocifisso del Tufo necropolis
Crocifisso del Tufo necropolis, Orvieto (Etruscan Volsinii/Velzna): Etruscan cemetery on the cliff's north slope, 8th-3rd century BC, with orthogonal streets, cube tombs of tuff, and architrave inscriptions.
Crocker Range Biosphere Reserve
Crocker Range Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in western Sabah, Malaysia, designated 12 June 2014 as Malaysia's second biosphere reserve; 350,584 ha south of Mount Kinabalu, managed by Sabah Parks with core, buffer and transition zones.
Crocodile Bank
Crocodile Bank usually means the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (Croc Bank), a reptile zoo and captive-breeding center near Chennai founded by Rom and Zai Whitaker in 1976, holding 15 crocodilian species.
Crocodile Enclosures
A crocodile enclosure is a secure captive habitat at zoos, sanctuaries, farms, or private facilities that holds crocodilians safely while meeting their needs for water, heat, space, and cover.
Crocodile Pit
Crocodile Pit (บ่อจระเข้) is a free crocodile pond attraction at Bueng Si Fai lake, Phichit, Thailand, run by the Phichit Inland Fisheries center; 84 crocodiles, old and new pits, distinct from the Maabdeh mummy pits and Royal Marines obstacle.
Crocodile Show
Crocodile show (ลานแสดงจระเข้): a live tourist performance where handlers perform stunts with crocodiles in an arena; also a named zoo in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. Common at Thai parks like Pattaya's Million Years Stone Park; research documents welfare concerns and regulatory gaps.
Crocodile Zoo
Crocodile Zoo (Krokodille Zoo) is a specialized crocodilian zoo in Eskilstrup on Falster, Denmark, founded by René Hedegaard, holding nearly all of the world's 23 crocodile species, Europe's largest crocodile Sobek, and releasing 200 Orinoco crocodiles yearly in Venezuela.
Crocodile's farm
Crocodile's farm (Ukrainian: Крокодиляча ферма) is a small zoo and tourist attraction in Sudak on Crimea's southern coast, opened in 2017 and now housing more than 100 crocodiles.
Crocoloco Crocodile Farm
Crocoloco Crocodile Farm is a crocodile farm and tourist attraction on Route 90 at Ein Hatzeva Junction, Arava, near Ir Ovot, Israel, keeping hundreds of Nile crocodiles and offering daily guided tours.
Crofton Roman villa
Crofton Roman Villa, Orpington, Bromley: the only Roman villa open to the public in Greater London. Occupied circa AD 140-400, center of a 500-acre estate, discovered 1926, excavated 1988, scheduled monument 1001992.
Crop and Medicinal Plants
Crop and medicinal plants are the species humans cultivate or gather for food, fiber, dyes, and health, with global medicinal trade exceeding $60 billion a year.
Cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill
A cross dyke and bowl barrow on the northern spur of Beacon Hill is a scheduled monument (NHLE 1012033) in Burghclere, Hampshire: a c.145m Iron Age cross dyke and a Bronze Age bowl barrow c.22m across, near the Beacon Hill hillfort.
Crown Melbourne
Crown Melbourne, also called Crown Casino, is a Southbank integrated resort and Victoria's only licensed casino, opened 1994, Blackstone-owned since 2022, found unsuitable by the 2021 Finkelstein Royal Commission and declared suitable again by the VGCCC in March 2024.
Crown of the Continent Biosphere Reserve
Crown of the Continent Biosphere Reserve, formerly Glacier Biosphere Reserve until 2017, is a UNESCO MAB site in northwestern Montana, designated 1976, covering 5,128,848 ha, adjacent to Canada's Waterton reserve within the Waterton–Glacier International Peace Park.
Croy Hill
Croy Hill is a hill between Croy and Dullatur in Lanarkshire, Scotland, rising to about 120 m and crossed by the Antonine Wall, the Roman Empire's north-western frontier.
Cruickshank Botanic Garden
Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen: an 11-acre (4.5 ha) free university botanic garden founded in 1898 by Anne Cruickshank, holding over 2,500 labelled plants with arboretum, sunken garden, rose garden, and herbaceous border.
Crumerum
Crumerum: Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube limes at Sánc-hegy, Nyergesújfalu, Hungary; garrisoned by cohors V Lucensium et Gallacorum, later equites promoti, with a 2nd-century burgus and Kuruc-era reuse.
Crussol
Crussol (Château de Crussol) is a ruined medieval fortress in Saint-Péray, Ardèche, France, on a spur over the Rhône opposite Valence; first recorded 936, built in stone from 1110 by Géraud Bastet, ruined in the Wars of Religion, now a protected Natura 2000 heritage site.
Crypt and church of San Lussorio
Crypt and church of San Lussorio, Fordongianus, Sardinia: Romanesque church (early 12th century, Vittorini monks of Marseille) over a 4th-century martyrial crypt of Saint Luxorius, beheaded at Forum Traiani in 304 AD.
Crypta Balbi
Crypta Balbi: ancient Roman portico attached to the Theatre of Balbus (13 BC) in Rome's Campus Martius, now a National Roman Museum site of urban archaeology; excavated since 1981, closed since January 2023 for the URBS restoration project.
Crypta Neapolitana
Crypta Neapolitana, also Grotta di Posillipo: a roughly 700 m Roman road tunnel through Posillipo hill, Naples, built around 37 BCE by Cocceius to link Naples with Pozzuoli; in road use until 1885.
Củ Chi tunnels
The Củ Chi tunnels (Địa đạo Củ Chi) are hand-dug underground passages near Ho Chi Minh City, used by Vietnamese resistance forces during the Indochina wars.
Cuanza (protected area)
Cuanza is a freshwater ecoregion of western Angola covering its westward-flowing rivers, from the M'bridge to the Catumbela, with the Cuanza River as its largest drainage.