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1 day ago · Topographic map of Serbia [e] Wild horses at the Stara Planina, eastern Serbia. A landlocked country situated at the crossroads between Central [167] [168] and Southeastern Europe, Serbia is located in the Balkan peninsula and the Pannonian Plain. Serbia lies between latitudes 41° and 47° N, and longitudes 18° and 23° E.
4 hours ago · The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. [1][2][3] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia but also to any place significantly settled by ...
1 day ago · Bratislava (/ ˌbrætɪˈslɑːvə / BRAT-iss-LAH-və, US also / ˌbrɑːt -/ BRAHT-, [3][4] Slovak: [ˈbracislaʋa] ⓘ) (German: Pressburg or Preßburg, German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɛsbʊʁk] ⓘ; Hungarian: Pozsony), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on the River Danube.
1 day ago · Agriculture is a relatively important sector in the territories surrounding the city. The Seventh-Kilometer Market is a major commercial complex on the outskirts of the city where private traders now operate one of the largest market complexes in Eastern Europe. [141] The market has roughly 6,000 traders and an estimated 150,000 customers per day.
1 day ago · Vladivostok. Vladivostok (/ ˌvlædɪˈvɒstɒk / VLAD-iv-OST-ok; Russian: Владивосток, IPA: [vlədʲɪvɐˈstok] ⓘ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia. It is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the ...
1 day ago · In 1879, the German Empire consolidated the Dual Alliance with Austria-Hungary, followed by the Triple Alliance with Italy in 1882. It also retained strong diplomatic ties to the Ottoman Empire. When the great crisis of 1914 arrived, Italy left the alliance and the Ottoman Empire formally allied with Germany.
1 day ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a ...
