
Poland Attractions
Kraków Kraków was the capital until 1596 and is still the secret capital of Poland today. In 2000, Kraków was named European Capital of Culture. […]
Kraków Kraków was the capital until 1596 and is still the secret capital of Poland today. In 2000, Kraków was named European Capital of Culture. […]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (in French: Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ), is a territorial collectivity made up of a group of small islands in the North Atlantic, the main ones […]
General information about Lebanon According to bridgat, the official name is the Lebanese Republic (Al Jumhuriya al Lubnania, Lebanese Republic). It is located in Western […]
It is located between 74° and 60° west longitude, between 3° and 13° north latitude. In the north it is washed by the waters of […]
Uzbekistan is a sunny country with a great past. The edge of an ancient civilization rich in historical events, a country that harmoniously combines antiquity […]
The Bahrain National Museum, opened in 1988, is one of the oldest museums in the country and houses a huge collection of ancient artefacts. The […]
Guatemala City Guatemala City was founded in 1776 after an earthquake destroyed the former Spanish capital of Central America, Antigua Guatemala (or simply Antigua). Clearly […]
Along with the ancient architecture, historical and cultural monuments of Milan, the world-famous sights of the city are its magnificent shops. Chic boutiques, decorated in […]
With its wild natural beauty, Missouri is a magnet for nature-loving travelers from all over the world. Rough, jagged rocks, deep, almost impenetrable forests, wild […]
Southern European state, bordered to the north with Hungary, to the north-east with Romania, to the east with Bulgaria, to the south with Macedonia and […]
Population The population of Estonia (1,429,000 residents In 1998, according to an estimate) is decreasing, given the modest birth rate and the high mortality rate […]
The demographic trends remained stable later in the nineties (population estimated at 1998: 7. 299. 000 residents), Despite a slight reduction in the birth rate, […]
Sri Lanka is a country of absolute exotics – this is how you can call a small island located in the Indian Ocean. Of the […]
In the last decade, a rapid increase has been in car transport both in terms of goods and passengers. The quantity of goods transported by […]
Railways. – Two important railway lines depart from Thessaloniki towards the hinterland: one towards Adrianople and Constantinople, the other towards Belgrade and central Europe. But […]
Ancient Greek literature is usually divided into three periods: the Ionic period or more properly Hellenic or Archaic (from the origins to about 500 BC); […]
The period that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall had seen the exhaustion of the push given to German cinema, from the 1960s onwards, […]
The profound reason for these reasons is always the ideal of an immanent justice in which all particular and individual sentiments, love and honor, glory […]
Theatrical production stands against intellectualism in art (cultism and conceptism), which is the negation of art and the imposition of extrinsic forms on creative activity. […]
New activism In 2005, nationalist protests erupted in the capital El Aaiún and other Western Saharan cities, as well as in Saharan areas in southern […]
Western Sahara is at the center of one of the world’s most protracted conflicts. Most of the former Spanish Sahara colony is occupied by Morocco, while […]
Abkhazia Abkhazia was an autonomous republic within the Soviet Republic of Georgia. With its location along the Black Sea coast of northwestern Georgia, along the border […]
General background to the conflict The underlying problem has deep roots and is about the difficulties of uniting Georgia’s many minority peoples within a state. About […]
The Caucasus region, where Georgia is located, is like a patchwork of different nationalities with different languages and cultures. During the Soviet era, the borders between […]
Damages The Border Commission had been dissolved as early as November 2007. Prior to that, the Commission presented a new map with detailed aerial photos […]
Eritrea becomes independent When the EPRDF captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in May 1991, the Eritrean rebels were able to occupy Asmara at the […]
Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a war triggered by a border dispute between 1998 and 2000. Up to 100,000 people died before the fighting ended. In a first […]
Spoken new Turkish Cypriot president Rauf Denktaş did not run in the Turkish Cypriots’ presidential election in 2005. The new Turkish Cypriot president was former […]
The third factor was, of course, the EU’s promise to the Greek Cypriot government on EU membership. That promise aroused the fears of the Turkish Cypriots […]
Despite the presence of the UN, both sides committed serious atrocities during the short war that led to the practical division of Cyprus in 1974. 180,000 […]
Soldiers from Turkey remain in the north. The Turkish Cypriots have declared their part of the island an independent state, the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”, […]
In the run-up to the presidential and parliamentary elections on March 29, 2008, the MDC’s election campaign was massively obstructed by Zanu-PF veterans’ associations. After […]
After centuries of conflict, Greece and Turkey have begun to reconcile. This also reduces tensions in Cyprus. But the island’s two ethnic groups still live separated from […]
Completed peace agreement In June 2015, the government and the FARC agreed to appoint a truth commission when a peace agreement was reached. In September of […]
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeirowas founded in January 1567 and was the capital of Brazil until 1960. It is considered one of the most […]
The role of the United States Colombia has strong ties to the United States, which since the year 2000 has given billions of dollars to […]
More setbacks for the FARC Shortly after the Colombian attack on Reyes, another FARC leader, Iván Ríos, was killed by his own bodyguard and a […]
Failed peace process Early failed attempts to mediate peace in Colombia. When the Farc guerrillas formed a political party, the Patriotic Union (UP), in connection with […]
During the first years of the 2000s, the regular military’s violence against civilians also increased, at the same time as, above all, the FARC but […]
Colombia has long been plagued by one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Since the 1960s, more than 260,000 people have been killed in violence between […]
Third ceasefire In September 2010, ETA again announced that all armed actions would be suspended, without any special conditions but also without any time frame. No […]
ETA is formed in opposition to the Franco regime Oppression led to increasingly radical opposition to the dictatorship in Madrid. There was a Basque government in […]
The “historical homeland” of the Basques About three million people live in the area that the Basques see as their historic homeland. Around 2.8 million […]
The Basque separatist movement ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna – Basque Homeland and Freedom) was formed in 1959 by a group of radical students in protest […]
Big losses for the Afghan army Since 2016, the situation has deteriorated more and more for the government. The losses of the army and the police […]
Swedish soldiers A UN-mandated peacekeeping force, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), had already been sent to Kabul around New Year 2002 to protect the […]
Suffering civilian population For Afghanistan’s civilian population, the war was devastating and devastating. More than a million people are estimated to have died, millions more have […]
Here we have collected texts about more than twenty conflicts. This includes both conflicts where hostilities are taking place and conflicts where the parties have allowed […]
For more than a hundred years, the Trans-Siberian Railway has served as Russia’s lifeblood with its reliable west-east train connections. Traveling along the legendary Trans-Siberian […]
Réunion is about the same size as Gotland, but here the differences end. Inland you will find more than 3000 meters high mountains clad in […]