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1 day ago · Albania has a mountainous geography. About three-fourths of its territory consists of mountains and hills with elevations of more than 650 feet (200 metres) above sea level; the remainder consists of coastal and alluvial lowlands. The North Albanian Alps, an extension of the Dinaric Alps, cover the northern part of the country.
- People
Albania - Ethnic Groups, Language, Religion: Albania has one...
- Collapse of Communism
Albania - Post-Communist, Balkan, Geography: After Hoxha’s...
- Economy
Albania - Economy, Agriculture, Tourism: Before 1991 the...
- Cultural Institutions
Albania - Cultural Institutions: Tirana is the home of a...
- Constitutional Framework
Albania - Constitution, Government, Parliament: The...
- Languages
Albania - Albanian, Greek, Vlach: The Albanian language,...
- Climate
Albania - Mediterranean, Mountains, Coastline: Like other...
- Albanian Nationalism
Albania - Nationalism, Ethnicity, Culture: By the mid-19th...
- People
2 days ago · The same day, Ismail Qemali waved the national flag of Albania, from the balcony of the Assembly of Vlorë, in the presence of hundreds of Albanians. This flag was sewn after Skanderbeg's principality flag, which had been used more than 500 years earlier. Albanian independence was recognized by the Conference of London on 29 July 1913.
5 days ago · Europeans, primarily the French, Germans, and Belgians, arrived in the area in 1885. France seized and colonized Ubangi-Shari territory in 1894. In 1911 at the Treaty of Fez, France ceded a nearly 300,000 km 2 portion of the Sangha and Lobaye basins to the German Empire which ceded a smaller area (in present-day Chad) to France.
8 hours ago · Suriname (/ ˈ s ʊər ɪ n æ m,-n ɑː m / ⓘ SOOR-ih-NAM, - NAHM, Dutch: [syːriˈnaːmə] ⓘ), officially the Republic of Suriname (Dutch: Republiek Suriname [reːpyˌblik ˌsyːriˈnaːmə]), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
3 days ago · Territory Flags Trivia Quiz. This quiz features flags that don't belong to independent countries - instead they are all flags of territories or constituent countries of other nations. Test your territory flag knowledge with this quiz. A photo quiz by Stoaty . Estimated time: 2 mins. Last 3 plays: Guest 73 ( 10/10 ), Guest 86 ( 8/10 ), Guest 115 ...
2 days ago · in Europe (dark grey) Capital and largest city Andorra la Vella 42°30′23″N 1°31′17″E / 42.50639°N 1.52139°E / 42.50639; 1.52139 Official languages Catalan Ethnic groups (2021) 48.3% Andorrans 24.8% Spaniards 11.2% Portuguese 4.5% French 1.4% Argentines 9.8% others Religion (2020) 90.8% Christianity 85.5% Catholicism (official) 5.3% other Christian 6.9% no religion 2.3% ...
1 day ago · During the latter part of the 17th century, around the Franco-Dutch War, both France and the Dutch Republic needed thousands of men to fight. Some recruitment took the form of rounding up vagrants and the poor to work the galleys and provide the armies' labour force. With this background, Roma were targets of both the French and the Dutch.
