According to allunitconverters, the city of Zamora is located in the northwestern part of Spain on the banks of the Duero River, 220 km northwest of Madrid and 40 km north of Salamanca. Zamora is the capital of the province of the same name. Initially, the Lusitan tribe lived here, […]
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According to citypopulationreview, 10 km east of Aksai is the village of Starocherkasskaya (the former city of Cherkassk). This is one of the oldest settlements in the Rostov region, it was supposedly founded in 1570 by the Cossacks-Cossacks and named Cherkassk. At the beginning of the 19th century, when the […]
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, CULTURE A lot of things in the country are subject to age-old customs and traditional Islamic norms, so certain rules of conduct should be observed. In public places, women should avoid overly revealing or tight clothing and miniskirts, and men should avoid shorts or sleeveless T-shirts. At the […]
Japan, due to its location and the veil of alienation, removed not so long ago, has a very peculiar culture and traditions. Probably, everything here seems interesting. After all, the way of life is very different from ours. According to weddinginfashion, the national religions of the Japanese are Shinto (“the […]
Having become an independent republic in 1991, Georgia was affected by a prolonged phase of serious internal instability. Between 1991 and 1993 it was in fact the scene of a civil war that split the same nationalist alignment that had led the country to independence, pitting the supporters of Z. […]
North Korea, after having officially communicated the reactivation of all heavy water nuclear plants, which had been closed under a 1994 agreement with the United States, South Korea and Japan, also announces the withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty nuclear. In April he will declare that he is in possession of […]
For a Russian tourist, holidays in Cambodia began to open relatively recently, compared to the same Vietnam. Partly, the reason for this was the turbulent situation in the kingdom, which was torn apart by a civil war for a very long time. But for a decade now it has been […]
Phnom Penh When wondering where to relax in Cambodia, you will probably first find yourself in Phnom Penh – the capital of the kingdom, the city of a thousand cultures and temples. From here, buses with tourists depart for the main resorts, although there is something to see in the […]
Gozo’s Rock Gate The symbol of the island of Gozo was just a short walk from the village of San Lawrenz. The so-called Azure Window with a length of 100 m was a popular photo motif until it collapsed in a storm in spring 2017. It is hard to believe […]
About 2,400km northeast of New Zealand is Niue, which is surrounded by a triangle consisting of Samoa, the Cook Islands and Tonga. This is an island where most of the inhabitants are of Polynesian origin and which is usually called “The Rock” which refers to the island’s traditional name “Rock […]
The official name is the United States of America. It is in third place in the world in terms of territory and fourth in terms of population. The United States was founded in 1776 by uniting 13 British colonies that declared independence from Britain. The United States has the world’s […]
Lake Kivu According to computerannals, Lake Kivu in Rwanda is one of the most unusual lakes in the world. Big. 2700 square kilometers. Deep. Surrounded by mountains. It is one of the seven African Great Lakes. Visa to Rwanda Citizens of all countries receive a visa upon arrival at Kigali […]
Today, Brisbane is a curious mixture of modern metropolis and colonial tropical city. The architecture of the city combines the spiers of Victorian churches with palm trees planted in front of skyscrapers of bluish glass, surrounded by vast parks. The special atmosphere of an ultra-modern metropolis and a pleasant climate […]
The city is located in northern India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in the Ganges valley on the western bank of the Yamuna River, about 200 km southeast of Delhi (4 hours drive). Agra was founded in the 15th century. Here was the court of the Mughal emperors in […]
IFATI Zombitse Vohibasia National Park: This park is the most important relic dry deciduous forest site in Madagascar. Zombitse Vohibasia is a transitional zone between the dry and wet forests of Madagascar, so the flora there is especially rich within the protected area. Baobabs and some orchids are quite common […]
It is often said that India is not a country at all, but a whole continent. It stretches from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the tropical greenery of Kerala. It covers an incomparable spectrum of landscapes, cultures and peoples. Being on the streets of any Indian city, you […]
Latvia, in Latvian Latvva (pron. Látvija), is the largest of the three Baltic States, as Lithuania has an area that is only 85% of that of Latvia and Estonia is less than about three tenths. It extends over 65,791 sq km. and therefore has an intermediate position between Austria, Hungary […]
Iceland had in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a strong original literature, valuable in form and content. In no other country were poets and storytellers held in such high esteem. The vast island, separated from the rest of Europe, kept its language almost unchanged for a millennium and with it, […]
It is possible that precisely for these reasons the genre most related to the incredible, together with horror, that is science fiction, found in the 1950s a much larger space than in the past. On the one hand, in fact, the atomic danger was a natural theme, on the other the threats […]
The United States has huge deposits of all sorts of metallic and non-metallic minerals and fossil fuels. The exploitation of these riches, insignificant in the eighteenth century and just started in the first half of the century. XIX, after 1860 it grew so rapidly that by the end of the […]
The financial aspects of the French economy during the last decade can be indicated in four alternating phases which have had a double physiognomy: of relative monetary stability from 1949 to the first half of 1950 and from 1952 to 1955; of open inflation from the mid-1950s (Korean War) to […]
Traces of a musical movement remain in France from the first steps of Christian chant (Gallican chant), to whose development the activity of the French churches contributed from the 8th and 9th centuries. Polyphony reached a first affirmation in the Parisian chapels by the masters of the school of Notre-Dame […]
The progress made by archaeological research in France has been, in the last ten years, very consistent. Numerous new settlements were excavated for the Bronze Age, while particular interest was dedicated to the emergence of territorial potentates, the birth of villages and the formation of Iron Age aristocracies (La Tène […]
Among the writers, in recent years, in addition to Sarraute, Br. Sagan and Br. Mallet-Joris, Béatrix Beck (b. 1914), whose contents bear an autobiographical imprint, and Célia Bertin, who she too came actively orienting the original pessimism: both animated by an unscrupulous passion for reality. In poetry it is possible […]
Thus arose the narrative “regard nouveau”. In reality, in this summary definition, personalities of different orientation and various stylistic procedures are united, however converging in the intensity of an analytical and cold gaze that attacks the interiority with an accumulation of psychic and sensory reactions apparently of little weight, but […]
In literature and the arts, France was once again the major propulsion center of avant-garde trends. On the threshold of the Second World War and during the war years, the dissolution of surrealism, existential inflation, the strengthening of Marxism and Catholicism that polarize their ideal tension, while there is no […]
According to shopareview, Brittany, bordering Normandy but less rich in historical monuments, has suffered less. However, an irreparable loss is that of the city of Saint-Malo, one of the most picturesque in France with its ramparts and old houses clustered in the narrow streets. The cathedral and the castle were […]
War damage to monuments and works of art. According to programingplease, the war of 1939-45 inflicted considerable losses on the French artistic heritage, especially in architecture and sculpture. The paintings and stained glass windows had generally been secured and the damage suffered was caused by theft rather than destruction. It […]
According to politicsezine, contemporary architecture in France is centered on the name of Le Corbusier. After the transition from the “liberty style” to what was later called rational, which took place mainly by Tony Garnier, François Le Coeur, Auguste Perret, Henri Sauvage, the architect Le Corbusier, of Swiss origin, led […]
The later legislation. – Legislative activity in the field of civil law was very limited in France until the middle of the 19th century. According to physicscat, the most interesting is to point out the law of May 8, 1816 by which the government of the Restoration abrogated divorce and […]
From 1789 to the Code civil. – This period, called intermediate law, marks the transition from old to modern French law. The work of the French Revolution certainly took place to a greater extent in the field of public law; nevertheless the assemblies of the revolution introduced various very important […]
While other important directors such as M. Deville, A. Cavalier (rediscovered only after the success of his film Thérèse, 1986) and above all R. Ruiz (a Chilean who moved to France who is responsible for very personal works such as L’hypothèse du tableau volé, 1977, and La ville des pirates, La città dei […]
After May 1968 and its repercussions in the works of J.-L. Godard, A. Resnais, L. Malle, J. Rivette, as well as those of politically or poetically engaged young directors such as M. Karmitz and P. Garrel, French cinema quickly falls into the ranks. Once the propulsive thrust of the Nouvelle Vague […]
The consequences of the advent of De Gaulle were also felt among the parties. A new formation grouping the different Gaullist movements took the name of Union pour la nouvelle république (UNR). In dissent with Pflimlin, Bidault founded, with little luck, the Mouvement de la démocratie chrétienne; on the opposite […]
Only following Eisenhower’s exhortation, Gaillard decided to relaunch “good offices”, accepting the solution of the points already agreed and postponing the question of border control until later. But he was overthrown by the Chamber in a tumultuous session (April 15). Under the heated leadership of Soustelle, Duchet and Bidault, the […]
The nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt (26 July), in addition to damaging the conspicuous French interests in the Company, aroused a patriotic wave in France due to the aid given by ‛Abd an-Nāṣir to the Algerian rebels. A mission by Foreign Minister Pinay to Cairo, which had come […]
The Edgar Faure government and the early elections of January 2, 1956. – After several attempts, it fell to another radical, Edgar Faure, to form a coalition government with the MRP, the social republicans and the independents, with Pinay as foreign minister. Despite the heated rivalry between Faure and Mendès-France, […]
The daring experiment by Pierre Mendès – France. – At the National Assembly, Mendès-France delivered a real indictment arguing that there was not a problem of Indochina in its own right, but a series of interdependent problems, which required the reorganization of customs and the regime. Laniel was forced to ask the […]
Budget difficulties and military aid. – For this reason the parliamentary approval of the budget became an almost insurmountable obstacle. A rich country, only partially damaged by extraordinary expenses in Indochina and North Africa, but a country that did not know how to decide between dirigisme and liberalism, neither adopting […]
Difficulty in Indochina and North Africa. – Meanwhile the situation in Indochina (see, in this App.) Was becoming more and more serious. The French government had to face on the one hand the communist rebellion of the Vietminh, on the other the national demands of Bao Dai, aimed at practically […]
In no other country in the Western world, the decade 1949-1959 was as rich in historical events as in France. Having emerged from the war at the head of a great colonial empire, the transalpine nation found itself having to face at the same time the difficulties of a settlement […]
The most caustic is certainly Présence Panchonnette, a group of artists who propose the ridiculous objects of popular culture mimicking the installations of art professionals. At the extreme limit of art, they connect to a tradition of critical and satirical activities recognizable from the end of the 19th century. The context […]
According to franciscogardening, Kern assembles discarded objects and tools and paints them before photographing them, just as P. Mercier does with flesh or clay: the result is the creation of a theater of truth and falsehood that photography unites in a ambiguous perception. P. Tosani photographs objects of his own […]
It is necessary to distinguish different trends in the use of the figure in the art of these years. There is a “ wild ” trend, which affirms a spontaneous position with respect to creation and a radical doubt about the hierarchy of values: Combas, Boisrond and Di Rosa take […]
In the 1980s, the internationalization process and the intervention of the mass media in art, which began in the previous decade, it was accentuated, influencing local national situations. Even if French art is on the whole not very present outside its borders, with the exception of some prominent personalities, it nevertheless participates […]
The dialectic between invention and relationship with the city permeates all the great projects. Some are aimed at comparison with pre-existing monumental environments, such as the large glass pyramid used for the new arrangement of the Louvre (IM Pei, 1988), or the Musée d’Orsay (ACT group and G. Aulenti, 1986), intended […]
After years of intense building production, but sclerotic in a language that combined the principles of the ” Athens Charter ” with heavy industrialization, in the last decade French architecture has radically changed direction, returning to play a role central to the European cultural landscape. According to estatelearning, the current […]
The monarchy therefore has the difficult moves in this northern France, tangled with powerful fiefdoms capable of each rising to a position of command. In the meantime, however, the rest of France escapes the kings, the area between the Loire and the Mediterranean where we are not really talking about […]
According to ehealthfacts, the feudal dissolution of the century. X marks a clear break between the history of the old Frankish kingdom and the history of the new kingdom of France. Merovingians and Carolingians had built and tried to fix an immense state based on the small platform offered by […]
Even more than for North America in general, the contrast between the modest extension of the Pacific catchment area and the great breadth of those of the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean is striking in Canada. While only small and non-navigable rivers belong to the former (with the exception of the […]
Roman Imperial Era: Greece experienced a new heyday during the imperial era. In the east, the »Hellenes« formed an upper class with special privileges since Augustus (requirement: attendance at grammar school). The Greek element played an important role in local and regional administration, and since the 2nd century AD also […]