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3 days ago · The Pskov region in Russia has seen a significant increase in rapeseed production over the past eight years, with the crop's volume rising 20 times to over 36 thousand tons. This surge in production has allowed the region to establish supplies of the crop outside of it and reduce the area of abandoned farmland. The first rapeseed processing enterprise, Pskovagroinvest LLC, has also been ...
2 days ago · "Rus' land" from the Primary Chronicle, a copy of the Laurentian Codex. During its existence, Kievan Rus' was known as the "Rus' land" (Old East Slavic: ро́усьскаѧ землѧ́, romanized: rusĭskaę zemlę, from the ethnonym Роусь, Rusĭ; Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς, romanized: Rhos; Arabic: الروس, romanized: ar-Rūs), in Greek as Ῥωσία, Rhosia, in Old French as Russie ...
4 days ago · Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780230203402; 288pp.; Price: £55.00. The Land Question in Britain, 1750–1950, is that rare collection of essays which is more than the sum of its parts; 14 essays by different authors, all of which connect with each other to reveal a hidden picture of a topic that has inexplicably dropped from view.
1 day ago · But although Moscow had consolidated her position in Western Russia by the establishment of Ivan-gorod in 1492, and by the conquest of Pskov in 1510 and Smolensk in 1513, the hostility of the Livonian towns, Poland, and Lithuania, which culminated in war in 1551, prevented her from developing the Baltic route. Her only direct outlet to the ...
2 days ago · The (red) and (blue) were the largest and second-largest empires in history, respectively. The precise extent of the Mongol Empire at its greatest territorial expansion is a matter of debate among scholars. Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement.
3 days ago · 81.7 percent of all Lithuanian wealth is stored in real estate and financial wealth makes up only 4.3 percent (business, cars). This is well noticeable as well from the actions of individuals during a pandemic. During 2020-2021 Lithuanians saved around 6.2 billion euros. Most of the savings Lithuanians held as deposits, cash, or invested into ...
8 hours ago · The suburban Chicago home used in the Christmas classic “Home Alone” is on the market. The film never says how Peter and Kate McAllister bankrolled such a property. However they afforded it, the new owner will have to mimic it because the asking price is $5.25 million. The house is more than 9,000 square feet with five bedrooms and six ...
