Metz The Gallo-Roman city of Metz was an important commercial hub, favored by its favorable strategic position, which made defense easy. Remarkable are the remaining remains of medieval ramparts, beautiful vaults and some imposing public buildings; however, the pride of the city is the Cathedral of St. Etienne. Contemporary art […]
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Government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo The 1 of October of 1925, Arturo Alessandri Palma resigned the presidency, temporarily taking over as Vice President Luis Barros Borgoño, who served as Minister of the Interior. On October 24, 1925, Emiliano Figueroa prevailed by a large majority in the first direct vote and at the end of the year he began […]
General information about Kyrgyzstan The official name is the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz Respublikasy, Kyrgyz Republic). It is located in the northeast of Central Asia. The area is 199.9 thousand km2, the population is 5.012 million people. (2002). The state language is Kyrgyz, the Russian language has been given official status. […]
Sweden is located between 11° and 24° east longitude and 55° and 69° north latitude. It is washed from the east by the Baltic Sea and its Gulf of Bothnia, from the southwest by the Øresund, Kattegat and Skagerrak straits. The total length of the heavily indented coastline exceeds 7 […]
BODRUM is the most popular resort for tourists from all over Europe and the Turkish elite, who come here to enjoy the splendor of the seascape and the charm of nightlife. The resort is ideal for youth and family holidays, here you can visit numerous art galleries, ceramic workshops, shops […]
Barbados – one of the most colorful islands in the Lesser Antilles chain – was discovered by Portuguese sailors in 1536. Because of the huge banyan trees with roots that form a real beard around the trunk, the island was given the name – “Los Barbados” (can be translated as […]
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is called the “pearl of Indochina” where there is a noticeable influence of French culture, there are many buildings of French architecture in the city. Ho Chi Minh is the perpetual motion machine of the nation, the largest city and commercial capital of Vietnam. It […]
“That was magnificent Genoa. This playful diversity of houses, churches and palaces in the thin heavenly air, shining with an incomprehensible blueness, was the only one. N.V. Gogol “Genova la Superba” – magnificent Genoa. This is how the Italians call this majestic port city, the capital of the historical region […]
According to acronymmonster, the southern state has so much to discover for its guests that you don’t really know where to start. Maybe the most visited national park in the USA, the Great Smoky National Park, the famous Appalachian Trail or would you prefer the Dollywood theme park? Or the […]
Serbia (serb. Srbija) Landlocked Balkan state. It borders to the North with Hungary, to the NE with Romania, to the East with Bulgaria, to the South with Macedonia, to the SW with Kosovo (proclaimed independent from the Serbia on February 17, 2008), to the West with Montenegro and Bosnia and […]
State of ‘ Europe north, overlooking the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland. It borders on the E with Russia, on the S with Latvia, while on the other sides it is bathed by the sea. They belong to the Estonia several islands, of which the largest are Saaremaa […]
At the census of 1 December 1930, 4,077,099 residents lived in Switzerland. (present population; the resident was 4,066,400). In 1800 it is estimated that the population of Switzerland rose to 1,670,000 residents, in 1850, the year in which the first census was carried out, it was 2,392,740 residents, the following […]
In anticipation of the 2006 elections, a new candidacy of R. Prodi at the helm of a large center-left coalition (The Union) was being defined as Berlusconi’s antagonist. Prodi’s plan aimed at the gradual constitution of a force, more stable than an electoral aggregate, which would unite the various reformist […]
The tensions on the issues of work and19 March in Bologna by the new Red Brigades, by the jurist M. Biagi, consultant to the Minister of Welfare and involved in defining the technical aspects deriving from the changes to labor regulations. The return of terrorism, limited as it might appear, […]
The Berlusconi government took office in June, with G. Fini as deputy prime minister and Bossi as minister for institutional reforms. Supported by a large majority, the government accentuated its legislative initiative by passing a series of delegating laws: it was a political and operational choice, not a new one, […]
The first years of the new century remained characterized by a clear contrast between the two political camps of center-right and center-left. This systematic conflict, devoid of the possibility of confrontation and meeting between the parties, except for a few rare occasions in foreign policy, remained the political figure of […]
According to sunglassestracker.com, the Patrimonium sancti Petri before the recuperationes corresponded to the Byzantine duchy of Rome, over which the popes began to exercise exclusively the “concrete rights linked to sovereignty” (Toubert, 1987, p. 155), starting from the moment in which, Ravenna in the hands of the Lombards, there was […]
Detached from the kingdom of Italy and united first to the Duchy of Bavaria, then to that of Carinthia, it took its name from the city which, due to its position at the entrance or, if you prefer, at the mouth of the Adige valley, was of great strategic importance. […]
He first of all mentions Apulia, that is, the territory of the continental part of the kingdom of Sicily (including the current regions of Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria), distinguishing, with respect to the Apennine ridge that crosses it, its western and Tyrrhenian side from the east and the […]
At the same time, Paolo already seems to have almost given Venice a city, on a few islands in the lagoon. For it he uses the plural Venetiae, which however immediately after, while hinting that it is now this new second sense to prevail, also uses in reference to the […]
The toponym Italy, of Oscan origin, approached from the etymological point of view to Lat. vitulus (‘calf’) and variously interpreted (Rauhut, 1953; Marcato, 1990), initially referred to the southern extremity of Calabria. Already in the classical era, and officially under the empire of Augustus (27 BC14 AD), Italy went on […]
Exhausted the living sources of the epic, poetry, fantasy, sentiment had to find another outlet. In fact, they found it in the many forms of what we conventionally call lyric: which had its splendor in the seventh and sixth centuries. C. With it the primitive lyric-musical manifestations, mentioned above, which […]
On the same path as Archilochus, but with a somewhat different, less personal, less aggressive temperament, a contemporary or a little later, Semonides of Amorgos (a native of Samo), author of the famous satire of women, took up his post. Instead Hipponatte of Ephesus, who lived about the middle of […]
In Cretan-Mycenaean art there are very valuable documents of pictorial art, and more precisely of frescoes. In the Hellenic Middle Ages the art of large fresco painting seems to have been lost; this can also be assumed on the basis of literary tradition. There is indeed uncertainty as to its […]
Athens, even after Polygnotus, continues to be the major center of pictorial art. A development of the primordial polygnothean perspective had to be felt in the works of Agatarco di Samo, who in Athens, already before 450 BC. C., had painted a scene for a tragedy by Aeschylus (Vitruv., VII, […]
From the Theban school came Eupranore from the Isthmus, who was also a sculptor, and who actually belongs to the Attic school, nevertheless reconnecting with the Sycionian school for the care shown in the symmetry of the figures. Eufranore’s pupil was the Antidote, and of this was Athenian Nicias, contemporary, […]
The Hellenic mobilization was secretly begun in mid-August 1940. While Greece provided for the reinforcement of the coverage of the Albanian border and the completion of the coastal and anti-aircraft defenses, Italy sent three divisions to Albania, in addition to the five that were already there. According to healthvv.com, the […]
In February there were other offensives by the Greeks who were trying to obtain a decisive victory, before the dreaded German military intervention took place. But every attempt was almost unsuccessful and the opponent had to renounce at first the conquest of Berat and then that of Tepeleni. On 9 […]
The contemporary history of Hellenic finances begins with the implementation of articles 2 and 6 of the peace preliminaries between Greece and Turkey, signed on September 18, 1897 in Constantinople; act by which, in order to guarantee the payment of the war indemnity owed by Greece to Turkey (4 million […]
Of the total area just under a fifth belongs to the islands: this already shows how much of Greece is closely linked to the sea. But even mainland Greece, due to its marked peninsularity and the deep indentation of its coasts, is a whole, one can say, a maritime country; […]