Costa de la Luz, Cadiz and Huelva According to Topschoolsintheusa, the Costa de la Luz with its endless sandy beaches stretches along the southern Atlantic coast from Tarifa to the Portuguese border. From Algeciras there are ferry connections to Tangier and Ceuta on the North African coast and to the Canary Islands. The route between…
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Geography of Russia
According to topschoolsintheusa, Russia is located between 19°38′ east longitude (Baltic Spit near Kaliningrad) and 169°40′ west longitude (Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka). The extreme northern point of Russia on the continent is Cape Chelyuskin (77°43′ north latitude) on the Taimyr Peninsula, the extreme southern point (41°11′ north latitude) is in the south of Dagestan. It…
Sights of Belarus
According to ethnicityology, the age of the modern capital of Belarus – Minsk, is 900 years. During its existence, it was completely destroyed and burned down many times, but it was restored all the time. The last time, huge destruction here was during the Great Patriotic War, when the retreating Nazis destroyed almost all the…
Cannes, France
“Whoever comes here once, stays forever” ‘Qui li vèn li viéu’ The Provençal motto of the city of Cannes At the foot of the emerald Esterel Mountains, on the shores of the Mediterranean Napoule Bay, an amazing city has spread, which has turned from a once unknown fishing village into one of the most expensive…
Italy Industry
Industry. – In the early seventies, when the raw materials crisis arose, the Italy it had achieved high rates of industrial growth, based on the development of basic industries, hired as poles to increase the production of semi-finished and finished products. The result of this policy, which the whole Western world had followed since the…
The Kingdom of Italy During World War I Part 2
According to allcountrylist.com, Italy entered the struggle at a difficult time for the Entente and on the toughest front. With the heroism of his soldiers, with the sacrifice of 680,000 lives, he had to make up for the insufficiency of armament and the lack of a true military tradition. Nor did he always find understanding and recognition…
The Kingdom of Italy During World War I Part 2
The impossibility of remaining neutral was soon evident. “No people, on the altar of fidelity to a treaty, will ever be able to sacrifice the reasons for their existence” had already said Bismarck. If the governments of Vienna and Berlin had long been convinced that they could not count on Italian intervention in their war for the…
The Kingdom of Italy During World War I Part 1
In the second half of March 1914 Giolitti left power to Antonio Salandra, an enlightened conservative, who, according to most, had to touch a short ministerial life. His predecessor would return as soon as the international concerns had been resolved, the economic and financial difficulties deriving from the Libyan war had been resolved and the renewed…
The Italian States in Contrast with the Counter-Reformation Part III
Giordano Bruno and Paolo Sarpi: philosophical thought, political and scientific thought. The fruits of the Renaissance ripened. A period full of men like this, this between the ‘500 and the’ 600; men linked by spiritual kinship, men of a civilization, of a nation, capable of increasing its ideal heritage and cementing its unitary life. We still remember Tommaso Campanella…
The Italian States in Contrast with the Counter-Reformation Part II
And if with the Angevins, then with Ferdinand the Catholic, there had been some loosening of brakes, now Philip II returned to being firm and combative, he forbade Tridentine decrees from being published, he stood up to fiscal and judicial requests: as in Spain, so in Italian possessions. Savoy, Genoa, Lucca, Venice reacted; indeed, Venice engaged in…
The Italian States in Contrast with the Counter-Reformation Part I
All this gives a good light to this phase of Italian life, which follows the wars of dominance and conquest. For many Italian states, it is a phase of industrious youth, of enlightened constructive activity; also for the Spanish government in its Italian provinces, it is the best time. Sicilian historians consider the time of Philip II to…
The Politics of the Church in the Relations of Italy Part III
Therefore, before embarking on the crusade to which he was obliged, Frederick turned to the north, where he was not lacking partisans and supporters: the Ghibellines. In short, he resumed the policy of Barbarossa of his ancestor and of Henry his father. And like Barbarossa and Enrico, again he found himself facing the Holy See: first Pope…
The Politics of the Church in the Relations of Italy Part II
According to themeparktour.com, crowned king in Germany, Frederick went down to Italy in 1220. And he seemed to be doing everything under the inspiration of the curia, for the purposes that it proposed. He gave dozens of diplomas to Italian bishops who went to solicit him beyond the Alps; he proceeded trained and counseled by a large cohort…
The Politics of the Church in the Relations of Italy Part I
According to thefreegeography.com, settlement of a German dynasty in southern Italy, the same one that for three generations had, besides the kingdom of Germany, also the kingdom of Italy and the empire, with a lot of good will to get its hands on the lands of the Church; vast violation of ecclesiastical liberties in the cities,…
Italy Between 2000 and 2021 Part III
In the 2018 political elections, the center-right coalition, composed of Forza Italia, Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Noi con Italia, obtained a total of about 37% of the votes, with the Lega as the first party in the coalition, the center-left about 22% of the votes with the PD around 19% and the 5-star Movement over…
Italy Between 2000 and 2021 Part II
In 2009, according to mysteryaround.com, the process of merging the center-right formations was completed in the confluence of Alleanza Nazionale and Forza Italia in the Popolo della Libertà party (PdL). The primary object of the government action was the measures to deal with the fallout at national level of the global economic and financial crisis,…
Italy Between 2000 and 2021 Part I
The year 2000 remains marked by an atmosphere of bitter tensions. The stark contrast between the two center-right and center-left political camps generates a systematic conflict, devoid of the possibility of confrontation and meeting between the parties, except for a few rare occasions in foreign policy. The weakening of the center left is confirmed in…
Italy under the Spanish Domination – between France and Spain Part II
But Mazarin did not put much effort into these Italian campaigns. They are a diversion, they serve to procure some allies, to create embarrassments for Spain. And then neither does he trust the Italian princes, nor do they trust him and France. All, for different reasons, were treacherous. Hence, few French military forces; absolute military unpreparedness of the Italian allies…
Italy under the Spanish Domination – between France and Spain Part I
In short, a resumption of unrest and wars in the peninsula, following both the political resurgence of France and the new Bourbon-Habsburg struggles, which are now one of their fields in Italy, as well as the formation of a valid subalpine state, which seeks in the active participation in those struggles its defense and its…
Rome Seat of the Italy Empire and the Papacy Part III
But what a return! With the pontiff, bands of foreign mercenaries who sacked Cesena and blood. And many French, to whom public opinion, especially in the State of the Church which already had a swarm of it around its neck, rectors, vicars, officials of all kinds, was extremely averse. Worse still: in 1372, that pontiff had led and…
Rome Seat of the Italy Empire and the Papacy Part II
According to itypeauto.com, Cola also conceived the relations between Italy and the empire in a new way. For some time, as it was claimed that the empire derives from God, but was conferred “by the authority of the senate and the Roman people” and the Bolognese and Italian jurists saw the first and essential source of…
Rome Seat of the Italy Empire and the Papacy Part I
In the absence of the popes, the seeds of the lordship were also developing within the State of the Church, present wherever they were the life of common and powerful families more or less mixed with the life of the communes. The papal legates, including Bertrando del Poggetto, could do little to prevent this development. And it…
Italy Literature Part II
They go searched, that is, besides the mentioned Levi (which the famous Christ Stopped at Eboli has done worthily follow the clock, Words are stones, etc.), In Alberto Moravia, which especially in the stories, short or long as Disobedience has shown that it is able to push deep into that psychological analysis which elsewhere, in the novels proper (Il conformista, La boredom,…
Italy Literature Part I
According to itypetravel.com, the most significant change that the literary panorama of the last decade presents compared to the previous one concerns poetry. The hermeticism which at the time, while showing that it was close to exhausting its cycle, nevertheless held the field, has now yielded to the experiences or experiments of the young poetic…
Austria History – The Creation of the Austrian Monarchy
According to topschoolsintheusa, the decades that followed were decisive for the fate of Austria. Then, that state conglomerate was formed which under the name of Austria, gathering various ethnic and national groups, reached our times; then Austria had sealed its destiny as a Danubian organism. The lasting union of the Austrian lands with the Spanish…
Denmark Early History
According to topschoolsintheusa.com, the prehistory of Denmark does not differ from that of the Scandinavian peninsula (see Nordic, civilization). The most ancient fossil finds prove that it was inhabited by the same people who still live there today. The first residents were naturally devoted to hunting and fishing; only after a long period did they…
Spain Languages
It is estimated that Castilian is currently the mother tongue or familiar language of more than 32 million residents of Spain out of a total of about 39 million, and that it exclusively occupies about 82% of the territory, while the rest is shared with the other languages spoken for centuries in Spain and having,…
Poland Physical Characteristics
Poland is a state of the ‘ Europe Central and Eastern Europe, who looks out for about 500 km on the Baltic Sea. The land borders run S along the watershed line of the Sudeten and Beskids mountain ranges, which separate Poland from the Czech Republic and Slovakia ; to the W, along the course of the Oder and its left tributary Neisse which delimit it from Germany ; to E…
Sweden History – the 20th Century and the Early 21st Century
In 1905 the independence of Norway was sanctioned. During the reign of Gustavo V (1907-50) the crisis of the First World War only reached the country, which remained neutral. In power with the support of the Social Democrats (1920-26), then the Conservatives (1926-32), the Liberals could not prevent the collapse of exports and the rise in unemployment…
Hungary in the 1980’s and 1990’s
The 12th congress (1980) of the Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt (MSzMp, in Italian POSU) was followed by the renewal of the National Assembly (June), which, in the inaugural session, reconfirmed G. Lázár as head of the government and Fr. Losonczi as president of the presidential council (head of state). The main measures adopted in the context of the…