Mountains Anyone visiting Norway’s second largest city should definitely visit the Hanseatic district of Brygge with its colorful wooden houses (Internet: www.visitbergen.com ). The Marienkirche, built in the 12th century, is also located here. A[…]
Category: Europe
In Italy, Mussolini began his “March on Rome” in 1922 with the promise of national renewal. King Victor Emanuel III. was forced to resign in favor of one-party fascist rule by Mussolini. After a severe depression, a year later a military dictatorship was established in Spain with the consent of the king. In May 1926, Marshal Pilsudski carried out a coup d’état in Poland which, despite the formal retention of the constitution and parliament, made him a de facto authoritarian monarch. In the same year, a military coup in Portugal overturned the parliament and the constitution. In 1928 de Fragoso Carmona founded a one-party government there; Oppositionists fell victim to the dreaded secret police. A year earlier, the Stalin era had begun in the USSR.
In 1929, after frequent changes of government and increasing political instability, Alexander I of Yugoslavia implemented a kind of “royal dictatorship”, the main features of which were the dissolution of parliament and the repeal of the constitution. In 1933, when Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, the National Socialists took power in the German Reich. In 1934 there were coups d’état in Estonia and Latvia, which here and there led to the establishment of authoritarian presidential regimes. In the same year, Tsar Boris III. of Bulgaria forbid all political parties in his country. In 1936, Joannis Metaxas established a dictatorship in Greece by means of a coup. In 1938 the arbitrary rule of Charles II also resulted. from Romania into open tyranny and in 1939 General Franco finally fought for power in Spain after a three-year bloody civil war. The 2nd republic could not hold out. For more information about the continent of Europe, please check ehistorylib.com.
Ski Resorts in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
ROSA KHUTOR At the Rosa Khutor Resort, 80% of all ski slopes in Krasnaya Polyana are located. These are 77 km of slopes of any level of difficulty with a height difference of 1535 m, which[…]
Latvia Literature
Literature. – After the Second World War, the frequent themes at the time of independence (1918-40), oriented towards national identity and the destiny of the individual, had little space. Among the authors who continued their[…]
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Political and administrative order With the Act of Union of 30 November 1918, Iceland became a sovereign and independent kingdom, with its own flag, united to Denmark by the Act itself and by having the[…]
France Vegetation Part II
In addition to the expanse of the moors, most of the Armorican Massif is notable for a higher percentage of Atlantic species; and as such species are also observed, more or less, throughout the Loire[…]
France Vegetation Part I
The vegetation of the soil of France includes ancient elements and other more recent emigrants. The glacial period destroyed the flora on only about half of the Alps and the Jura, which were covered with[…]
France Politics Part IV
The results of the first round (April 1988) awarded Mitterrand 34.1% of the valid votes, Chirac 19.9%, Barre 16.5% and Le Pen even 14.3%, that is more than double. of the votes obtained by the[…]
France Politics Part III
However, the signs of a deterioration in government policy were accumulating from various quarters: the victory of the center-right parties in the cantonal elections of March 1985 (53% of the votes against 46.2% obtained by[…]
France Politics Part II
For the ministry a further cause of concern arose with the protest, even violent, of farmers – especially Bretons – worried about the low profitability of some agricultural products and very dissatisfied with the Community[…]
France Politics Part I
The French political situation that emerged from the elections of March 1978 presented, under the guise of parliamentary stability, various symptoms of complication. The governing parties, in fact, which by virtue of the mechanisms of[…]
France Literature Part V
And it is no coincidence that some exponents of the “nouveau roman” (Robbe-Grillet), as well as the group of Tel That (Sollers). And in reality, in its dimension of critical creation, of poetry that is intended to[…]
France Literature Part IV
Sallenave (b. 1940) belongs to the category of educated writers, who construct novel and criticism with the same conceptual precision and the same effective simplicity. Les portes de Gubbio (1980), Un printemps froid (1983) and La vie fantôme (1986) deal with[…]
France Literature Part III
Yourcenar, the first woman to enter the Académie Française, in 1980, in place of R. Caillois, concludes the family chronicle, or rather the ” genealogical novel ” begun with Archives du Nord (1977; trad. It., 1982), in[…]
France Literature Part II
But the same phenomenon can be described above all with regard to A. Artaud and G. Bataille, who only recently entered fully, posthumously, in the illuminated area of the twentieth-century landscape: how the surrealists had[…]
France Literature Part I
While the Sixties were in France the years of the system and of the structures, those of hyper-theoreticalism, in which the subject was considered without identity as dependent on the social or psychic structures to[…]
France Literature From its Origins to 1328 Part II
To the same society, to the same courtly meetings, to the same baronial greetings to whom these elegant and courteous novels were addressed, the courtly lyric was also addressed, which radiated from the French court[…]
France Literature From its Origins to 1328 Part I
It is customary to divide, for ease of study, the French literary origins into many particular aspects, one detached from the other, according to whether one considers the epic, or the lyric, or the narrative[…]
France Literature From 1515 to 1598 Part III
According to OXFORDASTRONOMY, the name Brigade they assume early on (1549-52) is an indication of their ambitions. Their manifesto, the Deffence et illustration de la langue françoise by Du Bellay (1549) closes with a vibrant appeal to[…]
France Literature From 1515 to 1598 Part II
Perceived directly or through translations, the voices that come from antiquity and from Italy determine vast interweaving of resonances. Various currents emerge: pagan naturalism (Rabelais), Platonism (Margaret of Navarre; A. Héroet; the whole École lyonnaise),[…]
France Literature From 1515 to 1598 Part I
From 1515 to 1559. – During the reigns of Francis I and Henry II The movement of intellectual and moral renewal which began in the last decades of the century becomes clear and self-conscious, so[…]
France Literature From 1328 to 1515 Part III
The joyful clamor that arises from the stage is confused in the uneasiness spread throughout French society, presages a renewal of ideas and customs; and here it is useful to recall how the vision of[…]
France Literature From 1328 to 1515 Part II
The theater, especially sacred, has shown a growing vitality in these two centuries; among the many documents that certainly went missing, a manuscript of the century. XIV has kept for us a precious collection of[…]
France Literature From 1328 to 1515 Part I
The advent of the Valois to the crown of France with Philip VI (1328), and the consequent Hundred Years War, determined a period of squalor and depression throughout the life of the country. The conditions[…]
France Language Part II
In consonantism it is necessary to distinguish the treatment of consonants at the final, at the initial or within the word, and among the internal ones it is still necessary to distinguish the supported consonants[…]
France Language Part I
The diphthongs ae, oe were formerly reduced to ę and ẹ ; au held out longer before shrinking to o ??? . But one must distinguish on the one hand the place that vowels and consonants originally occupied in the word and, on the[…]
France Language – Syntax Part III
The appropriate use of all these phrases and of all those that have remained unchanged from the Latin period allows the simple phrase and the various propositions that make up the complex phrase to express[…]
France Language – Syntax Part II
The use of subject personal pronouns is closely related to the syntax of the verb. Ordinarily in Latin the 1st and 2nd person subject pronouns were expressed only by emphasis. In French they have become[…]
France Language – Syntax Part I
This smoothing of the inflection is closely related to the evolution of the syntax. The syntagms of Latin, that is, the combinations of the terms of the simple or complex sentence and the logical values[…]
France History – The Third Republic Part II
According to EXTRAREFERENCE, the struggles through which the republic had established itself had two consequences: the prevalence of the legislative power over the executive with the consequent dangers of the excesses of parliamentarism, and the[…]
France History – The Third Republic Part I
According to ETHNICITYOLOGY, the republic proclaimed on 4 September 1870 could not be said to be truly constituted and consolidated until nine years later, and through bitter internal conflicts. The republican leaders who came to[…]
Greece Between 1935 and 1949
From the restoration of the monarchy to the end of the civil war (1935–49): In June 1935 the royalists won a major electoral victory. After the removal of the moderate royalist Prime Minister Tsaldaris, radical[…]
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Since the end of the 1990s, the current format of the Tour de France has consisted of 21 stages spread over 23 days (there are 2 days of rest). The stages have an average length[…]
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Netherlands History and Culture
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Poland Economy
Agriculture 11% of the workforce is employed in agriculture, generating 1.7% of GDP (2017). It is characterized by a small-scale structure; around a third of the farms have less than 5 hectares of usable agricultural[…]
Latvia Literature
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