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The Americas commonly refers to the landmass in the Western Hemisphere consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands. Americas - Naming of America. The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived fr ...

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Burek or Börek is a dish originating in Turkish Cuisine, but very popular in many countries in the Balkan region (especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina), probably spread during the Ottoman Empire. It is made of phyllo pastry, generally filled with cheese (most commonly feta cheese), meat (most commonly ground beef), or vegetables (most commonly spinach). Börek is the Turkish word for this food. In Albania it is called byrek. In other Balkan countries (most notably countries of former Yugoslavia) ...

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Borogravia is a fictional country in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. It is small and extremely war-intensive, and closely resembles Yugoslavia in a number of respects, the most obvious being the prevalency of war, the similarities of the Serbo-Croatian and Borogravian languages, and the fact that Borogravia, like most of the Balkan countries, had a name ending in '-ia'. There are also many parallels with Afghanistan under the Taliban (the theocratic government, the ever-increasing list of religious "abominations", ...

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Adnan Terzic Bosnia and Herzegovina (locally: Bosna i Hercegovina/Босна и Херцеговина, most commonly abbreviated as BiH) is a country in south-east Europe with an estimated population of between three and four million people. The country is the homeland of its three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. Other communities that live there are not given the status of being "constituent"[1]. A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

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The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million. The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. Balkans - Definitions and boundaries. Balkans - Balkan Peninsula. The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the "Balkan Peninsula" as they are surrounded by ...

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Cuisine | Kitchens Wikibooks: Cookbook Breakfast is a meal preceding lunch or dinner and usually eaten in the morning. Less frequently, the term breakfast may also be used by people that work evenings or late nights to refer to the first meal of the day, although it may not include the same ingredients as breakfast in the standard sense. The erosion of breakfast has been an ongoing trend in the West since at least the early 20th century, coinciding with later waking times than when most Westerners had agricu ...

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Circumcision is the removal of some or all of the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis. The frenulum may also be removed at the same time, in a procedure called frenectomy. The word circumcision comes from Latin circum (meaning "around") and caedere (meaning "to cut"). Female circumcision is a term applied to a variety of procedures performed on the female genitalia. Except where specified, "circumcision" in this article should be taken as "male circumcision". Some opponents of this practice ...

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The davul is the Turkish name for a type of two-sided frame drum found in the Middle East and Balkan Europe. In Arabic, it is called a tabl, literally meaning "drum." Cow hide is stretched over the right side and struck with a heavy beater, known in Turkish as a tokmak, for a heavy, low tone. Over the other side, thinner goat skin is stretched. This is struck with a long, thin stick, known as a çubuk, for a higher pitch. They typically range in siz ...

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Alexandroupoli (also Alexandroupolis, Greek: Αλεξανδρούπολη - Alexandroúpoli) is a city of Greece and the capital of the Evros Prefecture in Thrace. Alexandroupoli - Geography. Alexandroupoli is about 14.5 kilometres west of the mouth of the river Maritsa (Evros) and the border with Turkey, 391 kilometres from Thessaloniki, and 849 kilometres from Athens. At the 1991 census the main city had a population of 36,994, and the municipality had a population of 38,220. Including:

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The goblet drum is a goblet shaped hand drum used in Arab music, Persian music, Balkan music and Turkish music. Its thin, responsive drumhead and resonance help it produce a distinctively crisp sound. It is of ancient origin, and is believed by some to have been invented before the chair. Goblet drum - Names. The instrument is known by different names in different regions. These names, however, refer to the same general type of drum. Darbuka/Darabuka (General) Doumbek (Armenian) < ...

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A hungry ghost is a kind of ghost associated with hunger common to many religions. In Judeo-Christian theology, for example, the Book of Enoch (an apocryphal book of the Bible whose complete version has only recently been discovered as a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls) describes the fall of the Watchers and the demons who might be the fallen angels (Watchers) themselves, or the offspring of the union of the Watchers and mankind. These creatures are said to wander the world in the form of evil spirits—endlessly yearning for food ...

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1356 - Events. January 20 - Edward Balliol surrenders title as King of Scotland to Edward III of England April 16 — the King of the Serbian Kingdom of Raška Stefan Dušan is proclaimed Tsar (Emperor) of all Serbs, Arbanasses and Greeks in Skopje by the Serbian Orthodox Christian Patriarch of a large Balkan Serbian Empire September 19 - Battle of Poitiers The English defeat the French in the Hundred Years' War, capturing the King John II of France in the process. D ...

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Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras (Dniester or Nistru, now in eastern Moldova). It thus corresponds in the main to modern Romania and Moldova. The capital of Dacia was Sarmizegetusa. The inhabitants of this district are considered as belonging to the Thracian stock. Ancient writers are unanimous in ...

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White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though literally implying light-skinned, "white" has been used in different ways at different times and places. It is somewhat of a misnomer. While the extremes of human skin color range from pink to blue-black, the vast majority of people have a skin color which can be best described as some shade of brown. A common element to the various definitions of "White" today, is that the term refers to a person ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1275 - Events. 1275 - Europe. April 22 - The first of the Statutes of Westminster are passed by the English parliament, establishing a series of laws in its 51 clauses, including equal treatment of rich and poor, free and fair elections, and definition of bailable and non-bailable offenses. Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to L ...

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Flavius Anastasius or Anastasius I (c. 430–July 9, 518) was Byzantine emperor from 11 April 491 until his death. He was born at Dyrrhachium not later than A.D. 430. At the time of the death of Zeno (491), Anastasius, a palace official (silentiarius), held a very high character, and was raised to the throne of the Roman empire of the East, through the choice of Ariadne, Zeno's widow, who married him shortly after his accession. His reign, though afterwards disturbed by foreign and internecine wars and religious distract ...

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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, named after the philosopher Aristotle, is the largest university of Greece. Its campus is located in the center of the city of Thessaloniki. It includes 44 Departments (τμήματα) which are organized in ten Faculties (σχολές): Faculty of Geotechnical Sciences: Department of Agriculture Department of Forestry and the Natural environment Department of Veterinary Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences: Department ...

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Pre-modern usage of white may not correspond to recent concepts; for example, the first Europeans who traveled to Northeast Asia in the 17th century applied white to the people they encountered (see suggested readings below) —the term having then no other connotations—and indeed, even today the name of the Bai people of Yunnan, China translates as "white". As European colonization of the Americas and eventually other parts of the world brought Europeans into close contact with other peoples, the term white and ...

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White people, White people - The Epistemological Challenge, White people - Synonyms, White people - Historic use of the term in the United States, White people - Early immigrants: Germans Irish, White people - Late nineteenth-century immigrants: Italians Slavs European Jews Asians, White people - Early twentieth-century immigrants: Arabs Berbers, White people - Late twentieth-century immigrants: Hispanics West Indians, White people - African Americans, White people - Use of the term outside the United States, White people - The Americas: Euro-predominant and mixed-race people, White people - North Africa Southwest Asia and South Asia, White people - Whiteness and White nationalism, White people - Social vs. physical perceptions of white, White people - Criticisms of the term, White people - White as opposed to Light Skinned, White people - Areas of habitation, White people - Footnotes

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According to this theory, a Romanic population came from the south in the Middle Ages and settled down in present-day Romania. Origin of Romanians - Arguments for. Common words in Romanian and Albanian language which may be of Thracian or Illyrian origin (see also Origin of Albanians). However, according to a number of thracologists, the Proto-Albanian and Dacian languages were probably related and the common words could have come from the Dacian language. ^{See also:}

Origin of Romanians, Origin of Romanians - Daco-Romanian continuity, Origin of Romanians - Arguments for, Origin of Romanians - Arguments against, Origin of Romanians - Migration from the south, Origin of Romanians - Arguments for, Origin of Romanians - Arguments against

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The history of Ottoman Empire spans more than 7 centuries. There are different classifications of this history, such as based on only military gain/lost perspectives. The current approaches are using more wider perspective, such as recognition of dissolution period, and using more economic perspectives to delineate the stagnation and decline periods. Ottoman Empire - Origins. The Ottoman Empire originated as a Uç Beyliği (cf. Marquisate, Marches) within the Seljukid State of Anatolia in the late 1 ...

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Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire - History, Ottoman Empire - Origins, Ottoman Empire - Rise 1299–1453, Ottoman Empire - Growth 1453–1683, Ottoman Empire - Stagnation 1683–1827, Ottoman Empire - Decline 1828–1908, Ottoman Empire - Dissolution 1908–1922, Ottoman Empire - Timeline, Ottoman Empire - State, Ottoman Empire - Sultans, Ottoman Empire - Organization, Ottoman Empire - Failures of the state, Ottoman Empire - Economy, Ottoman Empire - Law, Ottoman Empire - Military, Ottoman Empire - Culture, Ottoman Empire - Religion

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