Șimian (Serbian: Šimijan) is a river island on the Danube belonging to Romania, located just downstream of the city of Turnu Severin and overlooking the town of Șimian. The island is home to a reconstructed fortress that was relocated from the...
Șimian is a commune located in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Cerneți, Dedovița Nouă, Dedovița Veche, Dudașu, Erghevița, Poroina, Șimian, and Valea Copcii.
Simian refers to the higher primates: monkeys, apes, and humans.
The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates (simian from Latin: simis, lit. 'monkey') are primates of the infraorder Simiiformes (), containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes. More precisely, they consist of the parvorders...
Ada Kaleh (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈada kaˈle]; from Turkish: Adakale, meaning "Island Fortress"; Hungarian: Újorsova or Ada Kaleh; Serbian and Bulgarian: Ада Кале, romanised: Ada Kale) was a small island on the Danube, located in Romania, that was...
Skull Island is a fictional island in the 1933 film King Kong and its sequels, remakes, and other stories. It is the home of King Kong and several other species of creatures, mostly prehistoric and in some cases species that should have been extinct...
This is a list of castles and fortresses in Romania which have been declared historic monuments by the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and the writing team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), it is the...
The simian shelf is a bony thickening on the front of the ape mandible. Its function is to reinforce the jaw, though it also has the effect of considerably reducing the movement of the tongue by restricting the area available for muscles. Humans...
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a species of retrovirus that cause persistent infections in at least 45 species of non-human primates. Based on analysis of strains found in four species of monkeys from Bioko Island, which was isolated from...
