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[1 Apr 2009 | One Comment | ]
Crna Gora - Montenegro

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Slovakia

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[22 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Novo Mesto

Novo Mesto (Slovenian: Novo mesto; German: Rudolfswert or Neustadtl) is a one of the eleven town municipalities in the Dolenjska region of the Republic of Slovenia. According to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia it covers a total area of 298.5 km², along a bend in the Krka River and the town is considered the economic and cultural center of Lower Carniola. On 7 April 2006 it became the see city for the Roman Catholic diocese of Novo Mesto, which is a suffragan of the archdiocese of …

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[19 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kazimierz Dolny

Kazimierz Dolny is a small town in eastern Poland, situated in the Puławy County of the Lublin Voivodeship, on the right (eastern) bank of the Vistula river. It is a considerable tourist attraction as one of the most beautifully situated little towns in Poland. It enjoyed its greatest prosperity in the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, due to the trade in grain conducted along the Vistula river. It became an economic backwater after that trade declined, and this freeze in economic development enabled the …

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[9 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Zaporizhian Sich - Запорізька Січ

Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (Ukrainian: Запорізька Січ, Zaporiz’ka Sich) original Slavonic name “Zaporizhska Sich’” was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. The term has also been metonymically used as an informal reference to the whole Zaporizhzhia or to the Zaporozhian Host. Initially the Zaporizhian Sich was a fortified military camp, the foundation for which was laid out on the Isle of Khortytsia (Mala Khortytsia, Khortytsia Minor) in 1556 by D.I. Vyshnevetsky. But only in 1618 did Hetman Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny order his Cossacks to build the earthen perimeter …

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[8 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Belgrade - Београд

Belgrade (Београд or Beograd) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers in north central Serbia, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula. With a population of 1,576,124 (2002),Belgrade is the largest city on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and the fourth largest in Southeastern Europe, behind Istanbul, Athens and Bucharest.
The wider city area was inhabited since 4800 BC, while the foundation of the city dates back to Celtic and later, Roman periods, followed by …