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Pudozh, Russia

In the eastern part of the republic is the city of Pudozh. It stands on the banks of the Vodla River, 25 km from its confluence with Lake Onega. You can get to Pudozh from Petrozavodsk on a comet along Lake Onega. For the first time, Pudozhskaya Sloboda was mentioned in chronicles under 1382, as… Read More »

Georgia Travel Tips

The Russian language has a rather limited use. He is remembered mainly only by people over the age of 30, and even then only in the central regions. It is almost impossible to find a person who speaks fluent Russian in the mountains. According to COMPUTERDO, the Georgian language belongs to a separate Kartvelian group,… Read More »

Sights of Turkey

Turkey attracts tourists with a large number of natural and man-made wonders. Magic landscapes, extraordinary places, exclusive monuments of the Byzantine and Ottoman eras – the list includes dozens of interesting sights. Here you will learn about the most popular “highlights” of the Republic of Turkey, which we recommend visiting if you have chosen trips… Read More »

Sri Lanka Geography and Arts

Physical characteristics Like peninsular India, of which it represents a continuation, the island of Sri Lanka is a fragment of the ancient land of Gondwana. For the 9/10 it is composed of rocks from the Precambrian age (schists and gneisses), which in the northern section give way to more recent rocks of sedimentary origin, similar… Read More »

Palestine Population and Economy

Demography and economic geography. – By Palestine we mean the set of territories destined for the formation of the Palestinian state, namely the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The overall population has grown by 20% compared to the 2007 census, reaching 4,436 in 2014. 411 residents, According to an estimate by UNDESA… Read More »

Holidays in China

China is an amazing country that attracts tourists with its culture and ample opportunities for a varied holiday. Holidays in China are liked by very different people, as here everyone can find something of their own – sights, noisy nightlife, exotic cuisine, beaches, shopping and much more. Climate According to toppharmacyschools.org, it is difficult to… Read More »

Entertainment in Abkhazia

The main entertainment of Abkhazia is the beaches, and especially popular ones have standard entertainments like catamaran rentals, etc. However, many people go to Abkhazia for sights and museums – after all, there are so many of them in this amazing country that you definitely won’t see half of them in one visit. Attractions Sukhum… Read More »

Austria Attractions

Children and families Whether diaper-changing courses on child-friendly slopes such as in the Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis ski areas, in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser/Brixental or in Lungau or whether holiday camps where the offspring can learn foreign languages, climb or experience adventure, Austria has a lot to offer children. Children’s hotels are very popular with families. Interesting for… Read More »

EL Salvador Geography and Climate

El Salvador is Central America’s smallest country and at the same time the most densely populated. The country is located along the Pacific coast and borders Honduras and Guatemala. The country’s capital is San Salvador and this is also the largest city. Other important cities are Santa Ana and San Miguel. In 2013, it was… Read More »

About Venezuela

According to calculatorinc, Venezuela is an attractive country with picturesque nature. It consists of about 40 beautiful islands washed by the Caribbean Sea. The most popular among tourists and at the same time the largest island is Margarita. On the territory of Venezuela there is also the highest waterfall in the world – Angel, and… Read More »

Puerto Maldonado (Amazonia), Peru

According to Homosociety, the Peruvian Amazon is conditionally divided into the northern one with the “capital” in the city of Iquitos and the southern one with the “capital” in the city of Puerto Maldonado – the main city of the Madre de Dios department in the northwest of the country. Puerto Maldonado is located at… Read More »

Tours to Japan

Tours to Japan is a fascinating journey to the country of Fuji and sakura, origami and bonsai, acquaintance with the original culture of geishas and samurai, as well as much and much more. Holidays in Japan are like this bright and unusual country: a mixture of styles in architecture, amazing historical and cultural sights, cities… Read More »

Zambia Landmarks

Victoria Falls. Most of this natural phenomenon lies on the territory of Zimbabwe, so it is described in detail in the section of this country. However, Zambia has the Victoria Falls Area Museum. The history of the falls is well covered here, including the unusual geological conditions that led to its formation. The museum is… Read More »

Laos Description

Tours to Laos is an exciting journey to the most mysterious country in Southeast Asia. Holidays in Laos became available to tourists from Moscow and other regions less than ten years ago, and over the years the beautiful country has become more and more attractive and no less mysterious. The climate in this amazing country… Read More »

Nepal Tourist Information

Nepal is an incredibly interesting and beautiful country that more and more Ukrainians want to visit every year! Tours to Nepal are suitable for those who want to go on an unusual journey. After all, here you will be met by very unusual combinations of recreation: the program of tours combines excursions to unique ancient… Read More »

Latvian Literature

From the origins to the 18th century The history of Latvian literature begins with the vast heritage of oral culture represented by the dainas, popular songs, which were sung in the pagan Baltia (Baltic cultural and linguistic area), in Livonia as in Lithuania, before Europe saw the birth of troubadours, the Minnesänger, Dante and G.… Read More »

Iceland Literature in the 1980’s

Even in the last decades they coexist and intertwine – thematically and formally, outside schools or literary groups – proud fidelity to the indigenous tradition, will to break, anxious search, beyond national horizons, for new models and different expressive techniques. The prestigious position that literature has in the country intact, and close contact with the… Read More »

American Political Parties

The US two-party system has its origins in the opposition between federalists and antifederalists in the first years after independence, but only since the second half of the 19th century did American political life become polarized in the confrontation between Democrats and Republicans. which we know today. Over time, attempts to expand the system to… Read More »

United States Religion

The principle of absolute religious freedom, based on the strict and total separation of churches from the state, has not always prevailed in the United States; indeed, originally, the same colonies founded by the dissidents did not even know tolerance. And of the “pilgrim fathers” who emigrated to Massachusetts it could be said, paradoxically but… Read More »

United States Literature

Roughly speaking, with the end of the Second World War, a period of reorganization and rethinking began. American literature spread spectacularly in recent years not only abroad (in Italy the critical essays relating to American literature quadrupled compared to those published in the twenty years 1928-48), but in the United States itself. The refined and… Read More »

The First Monuments of Italian Literature

In Bologna, where the new civil and political life was intense and at the glorious Studio, readers and schoolchildren flocked from all over Italy and beyond the Alps, the high lyric of love, of which the Sicilians had elaborated the language and metric on the void of thought and Guittone reinvigorated the style with a… Read More »

Saint Joseph, Costa Rica History

According to Zipcodesexplorer.com, the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America. It limits to the north with Nicaragua and to the southeast with Panama. Its territory is bathed to the east by the Caribbean Sea, in which it has maritime limits with Nicaragua, Colombiaand Panama and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its capital, political and economic center is San José. The official language is Spanish.… Read More »

Saint Barthelemy (France) Overview

Saint Barthelemy (Saint-Barthélemy in French; also St Barth) is an island in the Caribbean Sea 175 km north of the Guadeloupe archipelago (17 ° 54 ′ North 62 ° 50 ′ West). Administratively is a commune of Guadalupe, although the 6 of Decemberof 2003 residents voted to become a separate territory of Guadeloupe, near the French side of St. Martin. Its surface area is 25,500 ha… Read More »

Russia History

Russia is the common name [2] of a country in Europe and Asia, which until 1991 was part of the Soviet Union (USSR). [3] Its official name is the Russian Federation. [4] The territory it occupies is the largest in the world. It has a surface area of 17,075,400 square kilometers, with a wide diversity of climatic zones and geographic regions. The land area of… Read More »

Republic of South Ossetia

The Republic of South Ossetia is a territory located in the Asian region of the Caucasus. Республикӕ Хуссар Ирыстон (Respublikae Xussar Iryston) in the Ossetian language ; Республика Южная Осетия (Respublika Yuzhnaya Ossetia) in Russian language ; სამხრეთ ოსეთი (Samjreti Oseti) in Georgian language. During the time of the Soviet Union it was the Autonomous Region (Oblast) of South Ossetia within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1989, while the… Read More »

Republic of Malta History

Republic of Malta. It is located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, about 90 km from the southern coast of Sicily, and together with Gozo and Comino, it forms the Maltese archipelago, a strategic point in the eastern Mediterranean. The Republic of Malta had its first independent government in 1961. In 1964 he joined the countries that make up the United Nations.… Read More »

Republic of China Culture

Taiwan, also known as Chinese Taipei and officially the Republic of China. It is an island of about 36,000 km 2, located off the coast of the Chinese province of Fujian, separated from it by the Taiwan Strait. To the north is the East China Sea and to the south the South China Sea, while the eastern coast of the island is washed… Read More »

Prague, Czech Republic History

History The first vestiges in the place that Prague occupies today date from the Paleolithic. The first stable settlement is considered to have been that of the Celtic tribe, around the 6th century BC. of Christ and settled south of present-day Prague. The town was called Závist. Later this tribe was replaced by the Germanic people and… Read More »

Poland Country Overview

Poland. Officially, the Polish Republic or the Republic of Poland. Country located in Central Europe that is part of the European Union (EU) and NATO. Poland, from the Polish term of Polska, was the name of the Polanie tribes, it comes from “pole / pola”, field (area of fields), due to the plains of Poland, they were then, the residents of the fields. According to Programingplease.com,… Read More »

Phnom Penh, Cambodia Overview

Cambodia. (official name, Preah Reach Ana Pak Kampuchea, Kingdom of Cambodia). Monarchy of Southeast Asia, bordered to the northeast with Laos, to the east and southeast with Vietnam, to the southwest with the Gulf of Thailand and to the west and northwest with Thailand. Cambodia occupies an area of 181,035 km². Cambodia’s capital and largest city is Phnom Penh. History The city… Read More »

Paris, France History

Antiquity: under the sign of the Gauls Although the site of Paris has been occupied by man since 5000 BC. n. and., the history of the city really begins to be written in 250 a. n. and.. At that time, the Gallic tribe of the Parisii decided to settle on the current Ile de la Cité, a strategic point… Read More »

Paris, France Culture

In 2015, the city of Paris – within the administrative limits – had an estimated population of 2.19 million residents.However, during the 20th century, the Paris metropolitan area expanded beyond the limits of the commune, and It became the second largest in Europe: in 2013 it had an estimated population of 10.6 million. The Paris region (Ile… Read More »

Papua New Guinea History

Papua New Guinean. It is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and a large number of islands located around it. It is located in the north of Australia, west of the Solomon Islands and southwest of the Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the beginning of the 19th century as Melanesia. The capital is Port Moresby. In the 16th century, the first Westerners… Read More »

Pakistan Society

Cinema In Pakistan there is an indigenous film industry known as Lollywood, based in Lahore, currently producing more than 40 films a year. Music Pakistani music is represented by a wide variety of aspects. From traditional styles, such as qawwali, to more modern styles that try to fuse traditional Pakistani music with western music. Pop music is also prevalent, with… Read More »

Pakistan Geography and Economy

Pakistan (Islamic Republic of Pakistan). South Asian state. It borders Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, and the Arabian Sea. Its area is 803,000 km². It is one of the most populous countries on the planet, with more than 170 million residents, the majority Muslim. Geography According to Eningbo.info, the country extends through the Indus basin, at the foot of the Himalayas, and is bordered to the east by the Thar… Read More »

Ottawa, Canada History and Economy

Canada. It is the second largest country in the world and occupies about half the territory of North America. It extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the east, to the Pacific Ocean to the west, and north to the Arctic Ocean, sharing a border with the United States to the south and northwest. The Canadian federation consists of ten provinces and 3 territories, and is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy… Read More »

Oslo, Norway History

History According to Naturegnosis.com, Oslo was founded by King Harald Hardrade in approximately 1048 AD but in its beginnings it was not one of the first cities in importance of the country since the flourishing and consolidated commercial city of Bergen and the religious capital called Nidaros far exceeded it in expansion and development. In 1314 King Haakon V, who was the first monarch to permanently reside in the city, was the… Read More »

Oman Country Overview

Oman. Located in the southeastern part of the Arabian peninsula, in Asia. Since 1967, the Kuria Muría islands, claimed by the Republic of Yemen, belong to Oman. Oman borders to the west with Saudi Arabia, to the south with the Republic of Yemen and to the northwest with the UAE. To the northeast it borders the Gulf of Oman and to the east with the Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean). History Archaeological… Read More »

Romania Popular Literature and Folk Arts

Popular literature. In relation to the holidays there are the colinde, very common, especially in the countryside, from Christmas Eve until the New Year. Groups of boys and young men go from house to house to sing the colinda, which, in addition to the usual wishes, includes epic parts, sometimes borrowed from apocryphal popular literature.… Read More »