Jul
15
2008
About
Capital Minsk
Largest city Minsk
Official language(s) Belarusian, Russian
Population
9,755,000
Currency rouble
Calling code +375
Traditional Belarusian dress develops caused by the time of Kievan Rus and on top time made up below the influence of cultures of neighbours: Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Russians, & other European nations. Aside derived from its predominantly Ruthenian roots, Belarusian culinary art is very near to [...]
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Jul
15
2008
About
Capital Bridgetown
Largest city Bridgetown
Official language(s) English
Population
279,254
Currency Barbados dollar
Calling code +1-246
Barbados is an self-governing island nation set around the western Atlantic Ocean, just to the east of the Caribbean Sea, detected at roughly 13° north of the Equator and 59° west of the Prime Meridian. settled comparatively closely to South America the nation of Barbados is [...]
- Tags: agricultural sector, amp, Antilles, area, Atlantic Ocean, Bajan, Barbadian, Barbados, barbados dollar, Bridgetown, capital, capital bridgetown, Caribbean, caribbean region, caribbean sea, city, code, country, cricket, cricket players, Crop, Currency, degree, development, English, Equator, event, example, Festival, Frank Worrell, garfield sobers, Grenadines, influence, interior, island, island nation, language, Largest, Lesser, lesser antilles, literacy, literacy rates, mangrove, mangrove swamps, Meridian, name, north of the equator, Official, Population, portion, Prime, prime meridian, Programme, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, South America, South American, south american nation, sport, square kilometres, standard atmosphere, sugarcane, tourist, Trade, UNDP, United, united nations development, united nations development programme, Venezuela, volcanic origin, west, West Indies, western atlantic ocean, world
Jul
15
2008
About
Capital Nassau
Largest city Nassau
Official language(s) English
Population
323,000
Currency Dollar
Calling code +1-242
Christopher Columbus’s first landfall in the New World in 1492 is considered to have been on the island of San Salvador (likewise called Watling’s Island), in the southeastern Bahamas. He encountered Taino (as well known as Lucayan) Amerindians and exchanged gifts with them.
Taino Indians from each northwestern [...]
- Tags: Adventurers, American, amerindians, archipelago, arrival, Bahama Island, Bahamian, bahamian islands, bahamians, Bermuda, british crown colony, british loyalists, Canada, capital, Cecile Cooke, century, christopher columbus, city, code, Columbus, commonwealth of nations, country, crown, Currency, currency dollar, Darling, disease, dollar, eleuthera, emigration, English, english settlers, family, field, Florida, form, freelance, greek word, Gregory Town, hispaniola, independence, island, Joseph Spence, Junkanoo, labour, landfall, language, Largest, living in the bahamas, Loyalists, Lucayan, lucayans, member, music, Nassau, NEW YORK, new york florida, northeastern Cuba, northwestern Hispaniola, Official, outmarriage, pillars of tourism, Salvador, San, soil, southeastern Bahamas, southern bahamas, Taino, taino indians, track, twin pillars, United States, warfare, watling
Jul
15
2008
About
Capital Dhaka
Largest city Dhaka
Official language(s) Bangla (Bengali)
Population
2005 est. 141,822,000
Currency Taka
Calling code +880
A new state for an old nation, Bangladesh has a culture that encompasses factors both old and new. The Bangla language boasts a rich literary inheritance, which Bangladesh shares with the Indian state of West Bengal. The earlier literary text in Bangla is the [...]
- Tags: America, amp, bangla, Bangladesh, Bangladeshis, Baul, Bengal, Bengali, bengali language, Buddha, calendar, capital, Chad, Charyapada, Christian, city, code, cricket, culture, Currency, dance, dance forms, dance tradition, Dhaka, dotara, Durga Puja, Eid, eighth century, ektara, Festival, fish, Fitr, folk, folk customs, folk literature, Gitika, heritage, hindi films, inheritance, instrumental accompaniment, Islam, Kazi, kazi nazrul islam, Largest, Maimansingha, mainstream, medieval, medieval age, musical traditions, nation, national radio, Nazrul, nineteenth, North Indian, north indian classical music, Official, Population, Poush, Purnima, Rabindranath, rabindranath tagore, rice, State, state of west bengal, Tagore, Taka, test, text, Thakurmar, tribal groups, west
Jul
15
2008
About
Capital Manama
Largest city Manama
Official language(s) Arabic, English
Population
2005 est. 698,585
Currency Bahraini Dinar
Calling code +973
Bahrain has been occupied by humans since ancient days and has even out been advised as the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden. Its strategical location in the Persian Gulf has brought regulation & influence derived from the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, [...]
- Tags: amp, ancient empires, arabian coast, Arabic, arabic word, Assyrians, attention, Awal, babylonian empire, Babylonians, Bahrain, Bahraini, BCE, Biblical, capital, capital manama, center, city, Civilization, code, Currency, delmon, Dilmun, Dinar, East, Eminem, Empire, English, evolution, fertile lands, garden of eden, history, India, indus valley, influence, Iran, Isa Al Khalifa, island, Jay, language, Largest, Life, location, Manama, Michael Jackson, middle, millennium bce, Mishmahig, Mr. Jackson, music, Muslim, Official, Pearl, pearl diving, persian empire, persian gulf, persian name, Persians, pluralism, Population, property, Queens Village, radio, regulation, salty water, sand, Sean Paul, site, strategical position, substance, sumerian civilization, sweet water springs, the Gulf, the Persian Gulf, third millennium, Tylos, U.S., United States, urban settlement
Jul
10
2008
About
Capital Baku
Largest city Baku
Official language(s) Azerbaijani
Population
2005 est. 8,411,000
Currency Manat
Calling code +994
There are various hypotheses regarding the roots of the name “Azerbaijan.” The to the highest degree common theory is that Azerbaijan was eponymously named after Atropates, an Iranian Median satrap (governor), who dominated a region found in modern Iranian Azarbaijan called Atropatene. Atropates name is [...]
- Tags: Albania, albanians, armenians, Atropatene, Atropates, azarbaijan, Azerbaijan, azerbaijani, Baku, capital, carrier, Caucasian, caucasian albania, caucasus, century, city, code, Currency, Dagestan, governor, Historically, Iranian, kingdom, language family, Largest, Manat, Mannae, median empire, mongols, nation state, Official, Old, part, Persian, persian empire, Persians, province, quarter, region, republic, republic of azerbaijan, Romans, satrap, satrapies, spoken language, substance, Turkic, turkmen, variety
Jul
10
2008
About
Capital Vienna
Official language(s) German (official)
Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, Austrian Sign Language (in constitution)
Population
8,189,000
Currency Euro
Calling code +43
One time the core of power for the big Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was brought down to a small democracy fallowing its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 & subsequent occupation by the winning Allies in [...]
- Tags: Adalbert Stifter, Alban Berg, Alfred Adler, amp, annexation, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, area, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, Austrian, austrian alps, Austrians, austro hungarian empire, carpathians, Christian Doppler, condition, core, country austria, Croatian, Currency, decade, defeat, democracy, democratic country, eastern alps, empire austria, Ernst Mach, Erwin Schrodinger, European, Ferdinand Porsche, first appearance, Franz Grillparzer, Franz Schubert, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Hayek, Germany, Gregor Mendel, home, Hungarian, I. Following, independence, Johann Strauss, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Kraus, Konrad Lorenz, Kurt Godel, language, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ludwig von Mises, monetary union, nation, Nazi, nazi germany, neutrality, Northern Limestone, occupation, Official, Otto Wagner, Paul Watzlawick, periphery, Peter Handke, Population, Power, Richard von Mises, Robert Musil, School, Siegfried Marcus, Sign, Southern Limestone, Soviet, Time, unification, Viennese, war, withdrawal, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Pauli, world, year
Jul
09
2008
About
Capital Yerevan
Largest city Yerevan
Official language(s) Armenian
Population
3,215,800
Currency Dram
Calling code +374
Armenia prides itself on being the 1st nation to officially follow Christianity (early 4th century). In spite of period of time* of autonomy, over the centuries Armenia come under the sway of various empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman. During World War I inside [...]
- Tags: 1920s, 4th century, amp, area, Armenia, Armenian-populated, armenians, Army, autonomy, Azerbaijan, capital, capital yerevan, cease fire, Christianity, city, code, cognac, course, Currency, currency dram, Dram, economic blockade, family, food, household, independence, independency, Karabakh, language policy, Largest, mesrob mashdots, Moscow, Muslim, nagorno karabakh, nation, Official, Ottoman, ottoman turkey, ottomans, part, party, period, Persian, Population, pushes, Red, red army, region, resettlement, Roman, roman byzantine, Russia, soviet union, spite, spoken language, struggle, sway, Time, war, woman, world
Jul
09
2008
About
Capital Buenos Aires
Largest city Buenos Aires
Official language(s) Spanish
Population
38,747,000
Currency Peso
Calling code +54
As a effect independence caused by Spain inside 1816, Argentina had period of times of internal political dispute between conservativists & liberals & between civilian & armed forces factions. After World War II, a long era of Peronist authoritarian rule & interference in subsequent governments [...]
- Tags: Argentine, argentine cinema, argentine culture, argentine food, Argentines, authoritarian rule, Buenos Aires, Cannes, chorizo, cinema festivals, Columbus, Currency, Day, degree, democracy, Domingo Faustino, economic crisis, effect, european descent, european origins, France, Fuego, Germany, gourd, history, Hollywood, Hollywood-type, Iluminados, iluminados por el fuego, imitation, independence, interference, jorge luis borges, Jose, junta, literature, low budget productions, Manuel Belgrano, Mar, May, number, Official, Peronist, Peso, Plata, Population, Queens, resignation, sausage, South America, Spanish, staple foods, story, world
Jul
08
2008
About
Capital Luanda
Largest city Luanda
Official language(s) Portuguese
Population
15,941,000
Currency Kwanza
Calling code +244
Angola is slow rebuilding its land later the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002. Fighting between the Popular Movement for the Freeing of Angola (MPLA), resulted by Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS, and the National Union for the Total Independency of Angola led by Jonas SAVIMBI, [...]
- Tags: Angola, anti, area, Bantu, bantu migrations, bantu tribes, boost, capital, century, city, coastal strip, code, Congo, control, Currency, end, Fighting, Freeing, Gabon, gullah, independence movements, independency, jonas savimbi, Jose Eduardo DOS, jose eduardo dos santos, khoisan, Kongo, Kwanza River, land, language, Largest, Luanda, lunda, military conquest, Movement, mpla, National, national elections, Ndongo, north, Official, opinion, Peace, poll, Popular, Population, Portugal, Portuguese, portuguese colony, portuguese west africa, process, rebuilding, retook, river, river congo, SANTOS, series, settlement, slave, song, south Carolina, State, total, Union, UNITA, war, West Africa
