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18 hours ago · The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2024) or simply Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the European men's national teams of its member associations. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take ...
18 hours ago · Estonia is a developed country, with a high-income advanced economy, ranking 31st (out of 191) in the Human Development Index. [24] The sovereign state of Estonia is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic, administratively subdivided into 15 maakond (counties). With a population of just around 1.4 million, it is one of the least populous members of the European Union, the Eurozone, the ...
18 hours ago · Thirty Years' War. The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population ...
18 hours ago · Zürich ( / ˈzjʊərɪk / ZURE-ik, German: [ˈtsyːrɪç] ⓘ; see below) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, [5] at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich.
18 hours ago · Istanbul, [a] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey, [4] and is the most populous city in Europe [b] and the world's fifteenth-largest city .
18 hours ago · Geneva ( / dʒəˈniːvə / jə-NEE-və, [5] Arpitan: [dzəˈnɛva] ⓘ; French: Genève [ʒənɛv] ⓘ) [note 1] is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, and a centre for international ...
18 hours ago · The Russian Empire, also known as Imperial Russia or simply Russia, [e] [f] was a vast realm that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 square kilometres (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in ...
