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History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Under Lenin 1917-1924. In March 1919, Lenin delivered a speech "On Anti-Jewish Pogroms"[6] on a gramophone disc. Lenin sought to explain the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Marxist terms. According to Lenin, anti-Semitism was an "attempt to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants from the exploiters toward the Jews." Linking anti-Semitism to class struggle, ...

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In 2002, it had a population of 688.435 and the population density was 80,5 inh/km². The majority of the population are Romanians. There are communities of Ukrainians, Poles, Slovaks and Romas (Gypsies). ...

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Suceava County, Suceava County - Neighbours, Suceava County - Demographics, Suceava County - Geography, Suceava County - Economy, Suceava County - Tourism, Suceava County - Administrative divisions, Suceava County - Municipalities, Suceava County - Towns, Suceava County - Communes

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Main article: History of the Czech lands Archaeologists have found evidence of prehistoric human settlement in the area dating back to the Neolithic era. In the classical era, from the 3rd century BC Celtic migrations, the Boii (see Bohemia) and later in the 1st century Germanic tribes of Marcomanni and Quadi settled there. During the Migration Period of ca. the 5th century, many Germanic tribes moved westward and southward out of Central Europe. In an equally significant migration, Slavic people from the Black Sea and Carpathi ...

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Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the Minoan and the Mycenaean. After these, a Dark Age followed until around 800 BC, when a new era of Greek city-states emerged establishing colonies along the Mediterranean. Greek culture would later become the basis of the Hellenistic civilization that followed the empire of Alexander the Great. For a detailed history of Ancient Greece see the relevant articles in: History of Greece. Greece - ...

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Nearly all of the collective farms in the Virgin Lands grew one crop alone: wheat. By the 1960s, the soil had been drained of all its nutrients beneficial to wheat, and before long, due to lack of any measures to prevent erosion, much of that soil was simply being blown away by the wind to leave bare, useless steppe behind. Also, much of the crop that could be harvested was wasted, as there were not enough storage silos, and much had to be just thrown away. Following the failure of the Virgin Lands Campaign, the Soviet Union was ...

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Main article: History of Serbia Serbia See also: List of Serbian monarchs, History of Yugoslavia The roots of the Serbian state reach back to the 7th century and the House of Vlastimirović. The Serbian kingdom (centered around Duklja) was established in the 11th century. Marked by a disintegration and crises, it lasted until the end of 12th century. The renewal of the medieval Serbian state in the Raška region was performed by Stefan Nemanja, the Serbian Grand Župan who lived in t ...

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Galicia Central Europe - Prior to partitions of Poland. Main articles: Red Ruthenia and Halych-Volhynia The region of what later became known as Galicia appears to have been incorporated, in large part, into the Empire of Great Moravia. It is first attested in the Primary Chronicle under 981, when Volodymyr the Great of Kievan Rus took over the Red Ruthenian cities i ...

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Population (2002): 507,006. Ethnic groups: As oil workers from across Russia far outnumber indigenous people in the region it should come as no surprise that the Nenets, at 26,435, only make up 5.2% of the population, preceded by Tatars at 27,734 (5.4%), Ukrainians at 66,080 (13%) and ethnic Russians at 298,359 (58.8%). Other prominent ethnic groups include Belarusians (8,989 or 1.77%), Khants (8,760 or 1.72%), Azerbaijanis (8,353 or 1.65%), Bashkirs (7,932 or 1.56%), Komis (6,177 or 1.22%), Moldovans ...

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Slavs are customarily divided into three major subgroups: East Slavs, West Slavs, and South Slavs, each with a somewhat different background. The East Slavs may all be traced to Slavic-speaking populations that were organized as Kievan Rus' beginning in the 9th century A.D. and eventually fell under the influence of the Mongol Empire. Almost all of the South Slavs can be traced to ethnic Slavs who mixed with the local population of the Balkans (Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians and Getae) and with later invaders from the East (Bulg ...

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What sets Kalmykia apart from its neighbors is the fact that it is the only Buddhist territory in Europe. Russians adopted the name Kalmyk from the Tatars in the 16th century. The Russians later learned about the name Oirat, which had come from the Mongols. There is a very common misunderstanding that the Kalmyks are "western Mongols". This is analogous to calling the English Germans just because both languages (English and German) belong to the Germanic language group. Kalmyks, in fact, are not Mongols. The two cultures have their own histo ...

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See also: Volhynia Volyn was once part of Kievan Rus before becoming an independent local principality and an integral part of the Halych-Volynia, one of Kievan Rus successor states. In the 1400s, the area came under the control of neighbouring Lithuania, in 1569 passing over to Poland and then in 1795, until World War I, to the Russian Empire where it was a part of the Volynskaya Guberniya. In Krzemieniec there was a Polish language post-secondary school named Liceum Krzemienieck ...

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The long form of the name Slovakia is Slovak Republic (in Slovak: Slovenská republika). The relation between those two name forms is exactly the same as with Germany vs. Federal Republic of Germany, France vs. French Republic, Slovenia vs. Republic of Slovenia etc. The recent practice, often seen especially in economic texts, of using the name Slovak Republic instead of Slovakia, when the terms Hungary, Slovenia etc. are used in the same text, is therefore awkward, arising in analogy to the use of the term Czech Republic, but that is (partly) another problem ( ...

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Between the 6th and 8th centuries, what is now known as Belarus was settled by the Slavs, who still dominate the country. The Early East Slavs gradually came into contact with the Varangians and were organized under the state of Rus', mainly in the area around modern-day Polatsk in the northern part of the country. In the 13th century, the state was badly affected by a Mongol invasion, and eventually parts of Rus' were swallowed up by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The core lands of the duchy were teritories around Kernavė, Trakai and Vilniu ...

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Image:Librarysm.jpg "Sremska Mitrovica" means "Mitrovica of Srem" (Mitrovica of Kosovo and Mitrovica of Mačva also exists), while "Mitrovica" itself stems from the name "Saint Demetrius" or "Свети Димитрије" ("Sveti Dimitrije") in the Serbian language. The name of the city during the reign of the Roman Empire was Sirmium. Beginning in 1180 A.D. the name changed from "Civitas Sancti Demetrii" to "Dmitrovica", "Mitrovica", and finally to the present form - "Sremska Mitrovica". In the days of the Roman Empire it was one of the four ...

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In the past century, more or less systematic sprees of deliberate large-scale killings of entire groups of people have occurred in what is now the countries of Turkey, Namibia, Congo, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, China, Cambodia, Rwanda and Sudan. In a wider historical perspective, genocide, has been common throughout history, the annihilation of entire peoples, such as the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Patagonia, by Europeans, either directly or indirectly by making survival or procreation impossible, is usually considered to be genocide.
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Bologna was founded by the Etruscans with the name Felsina (ca. 534 BC) in an area previously long inhabitated by the villanovians, a people of farmers and shepherds. The Etruscan city grew around a sanctuary built on a hill, and was surrounded by a necropolis. In the 4th century BC the city was conquered by the Gauls Boii, whence the ancient name Bononia of the Roman colony (c. 189 BC) created after the conquest in 191 BC. The settlers included 3,000 Latin families led by the consuls Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Marcus Atilius Ser ...

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The Republic is located in the north-western part of the Russian Federation, taking intervening position between the basins of White and Baltic seas. The White Sea shore line is 630 km. The most part of the republic's territory (148,000 km², or 85%) is comprised of state forest stock. The total growing stock of timber resources in the forests of all categories and ages is 807 million m³. The mature and overmature tree stock amounts to 411.8 million m³, of which 375.2 million m³ is coniferous. Area: 172,400 km² ...

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Republic of Karelia, Republic of Karelia - Geography, Republic of Karelia - Time zone, Republic of Karelia - Rivers, Republic of Karelia - Lakes, Republic of Karelia - Natural Resources, Republic of Karelia - Administrative divisions, Republic of Karelia - Demographics, Republic of Karelia - History, Republic of Karelia - Politics, Republic of Karelia - Culture, Republic of Karelia - Religion

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Human settlement in Estonia became possible when the ice, from the last glacial era, melted away 11,000–13,000 years ago. The oldest known settlement in Estonia was located on the Pärnu River, near the town of Sindi (Pulli settlement, by village Pulli - on right bank of Pärnu River). It dates back to the middle of the 8th millennium BC. Estonia was first christianised when the German "Livonian Sword Brethren" and Denmark conquered the land by 1227. Subsequent foreign powers that controlled Estonia at various times included Denmark ...

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Estonia, Estonia - History, Estonia - Politics, Estonia - Counties, Estonia - Geography, Estonia - Climate, Estonia - Economy, Estonia - Demographics, Estonia - Ethnicity, Estonia - Religion, Estonia - Culture, Estonia - Miscellaneous topics

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The city of Przemyśl appears to have been founded as early as the 8th century. One explanation, possibly legendary, was that the city was founded by a Duke from what would become central Poland, named Przemysł. The area afterwards became a part of the Great Moravian state. Archeological remains testify to the presence of the monastic settlement as early as the 9th century. Upon the invasion of the Hungarian tribes into the heart of the Great Moravian Empire around 899, the White Croats of the area declared their allegiance to Kiev, capital ...

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Most of the oblast lies on the Eastern slopes of the Middle and North Urals and the Western Siberian Plain. Only in the SW does the Sverdlovsk oblast stretch onto the Western slopes of the Ural mountains. The highest mountains all rise in the North Urals (Konzhakovsky Kamen' at 1569 m and Denezhkin Kamen' at 1492 m). The Middle Urals is mostly hilly country with no discernible peaks; the mean elevation is closer to 300-500 metres above the sea level. Principal rivers include the Tavda, the Tura, the Chusovaya and the Ufa ...

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Sverdlovsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Geography, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Time zone, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Natural resources, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Climate, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Administrative divisions, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Demographics, Sverdlovsk Oblast - History, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Politics, Sverdlovsk Oblast - Economy and transportation, Sverdlovsk Oblast - External link

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The name Bessarabia (Basarabia in Romanian) probably derives from the Wallachian family of Basarab, who once ruled over the southern part of the area. The name originally applied only to the southern part of the territory, which corresponds in size with the modern day Budjak. The Turks were the first to call it " Besarabya", which they began doing when they gained control of the area in 1484. From the 15th to the 20th centuries, the region passed successively to: Moldavia, the Ottoman Empire (only the Budjak region), Russia, Romania, the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Moldova. ...

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Main article: History of Hungary In the time of the Roman Empire, the Romans called the region Pannonia (west from the Danube river). After Rome fell under the Germanic tribes migration and Carpians' pressure, the Migration Period continued bringing many invaders. First came the Huns, who built up a powerful empire under Attila. The name "Hungary" may be influenced by the name of the Hun people, although it probably comes from the name of a later, 7th century turkic alliance called Onogur. After the Hunnish rule faded, the othe ...

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