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1 day ago · The last census before the Treaty of Trianon was held in 1910. This census recorded population by language and religion but not by ethnicity. On the other hand, in pre-WW1 era Europe, there were only language censuses in a few countries, but the first ethnic censuses were not implemented in Europe until the interwar period.
5 days ago · At least 1,368 children were also injured due to the all-out war, according to Kostin. Russia's war of aggression has taken a staggering toll on Ukraine's civilian population.
Look around your town, now shoot 1/3 of them in a single day. Tomorrow shell one in six. Repeat for a month. Welcome to WW1. It was almost unimaginable. 57,470 casualties in the FIRST DAY of a four month campaign. Total Allied casualties were over 600,000. WW1 killed a very large percentage of an entire generation, and left the survivors with PTSD.
2 days ago · The Cossack Hetmanate was divided into military-administrative districts known as regiments (regimental districts; Ukrainian: полк, romanized: polk) whose number fluctuated with the size of the Hetmanate's territory. In 1649, when the Hetmanate controlled both the right and left banks, it included 16 such districts.
5 days ago · Peter I (born June 9 [May 30, Old Style], 1672, Moscow, Russia—died February 8 [January 28], 1725, St. Petersburg) was the tsar of Russia who reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V (1682–96) and alone thereafter (1696–1725) and who in 1721 was proclaimed emperor ( imperator ). He was one of his country’s greatest statesmen ...
- Peter the Great modernized Russia—which, at the start of his rule, had greatly lagged behind the Western countries—and transformed it into a major...
- Peter’s father, Tsar Alexis, died when Peter was four years old. At age 10 Peter became joint tsar with his half brother and, because of power stru...
- In 1689 Peter wed Eudoxia, but the marriage ended in 1698. He later became involved with the future Catherine I, a Baltic woman who had been taken...
- Peter suffered from bladder and urinary-tract problems, and in January 1725 [Old Style] he began having trouble urinating. Doctors removed a litre...
1 day ago · It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [11] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth was 71.54 years (66.49 years for males and 76.43 years for females). [1]
4 days ago · 1/4The costs of World War II and the war in Ukraine fuse as Allies remember D-Day without Russia Ever-dwindling numbers of World War II veterans who have pilgrimaged back to France, and Russia's ...
