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Hungarians (Szeklers and Magyars) (especially in Harghita, Covasna and Mureş) and Rromas (commonly known as ţigani) are the principal minorities, with a declining German population (in Timiş, Sibiu, Braşov) and smaller numbers of Slovaks, Serbs, Croats and Banat Bulgarians (in Banat), Ukrainians (in Bukovina), Greeks (Brăila, Constanţa), Turks and Tatars (in Constanţa), Armenians, Great Russians (Lippovans, in Tulcea) and others. Minority populations are greatest in Transylvania and the Banat, areas in the north and west, which ...

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Population and Ethinical Diversity. The region is highly urbanized (85%) and many cities are famous for their urban planning, like Curitiba, Londrina and Maringá. 85% of Southern Brazil's population is made up of whites, due to strong European immigration in the past. ...

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Slovakia is officially also called the Slovak Republic (in Slovak: Slovenská republika). The short form is as linguistically and historically as correct as the long one, just like France vs. French Republic, Slovenia vs. Republic of Slovenia etc. The recent practice, 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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Danube Swabians - Origins. Beginning in the 12th century, German merchants and miners began to settle in the Kingdom of Hungary at the invitation of the Hungarian monarchy. Although there were significant colonies of Carpathian Germans in the Spiš mountains and Transylvanian Saxons in Transylvania, German settlement throughout the rest of the kingdom had not been extensive until this time. During the 17th-18th centuries, warfare between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire devastated and depopulat ...

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Main article: History of Serbia See also The Serbia Series: 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 las ...

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At Christmas time there is a custom on the night of Christmas Eve to have a twelve-course meal, symbolic of the twelve apostles. This meal is both meatless and dairyless. It usually consists of a few fish dishes (baked fish, pickled herring), verenyky, holobtsi, kolach (round braided bread), kutya (cooked wheat with poppy seeds, and honey or sugar, only made in the Christmas season), some mushroom dishes, and garlic, as well as a few other ingredients. There are also symbolic accompaniments to the meal. The meal starts in the evening, ...

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Culture of Ukraine, Culture of Ukraine - Food, Culture of Ukraine - Christmas Traditions

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Excluding territories of north-central Kazakhstan, Siberia thus has a total population of ca. 41.7 million. Not counting the districts east of Sakha yields a total of 35.6 million. The North Kazakhstan oblast has another 1.1 million inhabitants (2002). About 70% of Siberia's people live in cities. Most city people are crowded into small apartments. Many people in rural areas live in simple, but more spacious, log houses. Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia, with a population of about 1.5 million, followed by Yekaterinburg (1.3 ...

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The city has 1,131,700 inhabitants (2005); the metropolitan area has 1,566,000 inhabitants (2004). It is the fourth-largest city in Ukraine. Donetsk and the surrounding territories are heavily urbanized and agglomerated into conurbation. The workforce is heavily involved with heavy industry, especially coal mining, but the city is very green and lightly-polluted for being a major industrial city. Donetsk has one o ...

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Evenkia - Districts. Evenkia Autonomous District consists of the following districts (raions): Baykitsky (Байкитский) Ilimpiysky (Илимпийский) Tungussko-Chunsky (Тунгусско-Чунский) ...

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The city is one of the most visited city by tourists in Brazil. Most of the tourists are Brazilians and Argentinians, but Americans, Germans, Italians, French and Chinese tourists are also common in the city. The city has approximately 100 hotels and "pousadas". The attractions of the city are many: The Iguassu Falls (large as three Niagara Falls together), part of the falls are in the Brazilian side, others (including the "Garganta do Diabo", the tallest of the falls, 97 meters high) are in the Argentinian side. The Pa ...

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Tbilisi - Early History. According to an old legend, the present-day territory of Tbilisi was covered by forests as late as the 5th century A.D. One widely accepted variant of the legend of Tbilisi's founding states that King Vakhtang I Gorgasali of Georgia went hunting in the heavily forested region with a falcon (sometimes the falcon is either substituted by a hawk or other small birds of prey in the legend). The King's falcon allegedly caught/injured a pheasant during the hunt, after which both b ...

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The majestic appearance of St. Petersburg is achieved through a variety of architectural details including long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges, gives the city a unique and striking ambience. These bodies of wate ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church - Chanting. Orthodox services are sung nearly in their entirety. Services consist in part of a dialog between the clergy and the people (often represented by the choir or the Psaltis (Cantor). In each case the text is sung or chanted following a prescribed musical form. Almost nothing is read in a normal speaking voice with the exception of the homily if one is given. The church has developed eight Modes or Tones, (see Octoechos) within which a chant may be set, depending on the time of ye ...

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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 (Vlachs, Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians and Getae) and with later invaders from the Ea ...

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Eastern Front World War II - Invasion: Summer 1941. ██ to 9 July 1941 ██ to 1 September 1941 ██ to 9 September 1941 See also:

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After the Civil War abolished slavery in the South, racial discrimination became regulated by the so-called Jim Crow laws, which mandated strict segregation of the races. Though such laws were instituted shortly after fighting ended in many cases, they only became formalized after the end of Republican-enforced Reconstruction in the 1870s and 80s during a period known as the nadir of American race relations. This legalized segregation lasted up to the 1960s, primarily through the deep ...

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Main article: History of Romania In 513 BC, south of the Danube, the tribal confederation of the Getae were defeated by Darius during his campaign against the Scythians (Herodotus IV.93). Over half a millennium later, the Getae (also named Daci by Romans) were defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two campaigns stretching from 101 to 106, and the core of their kingdom was turned into the Roman province of Dacia. The Gothic and Carpic campaigns in the Balkans during 238–256 forced the Roman Empire to reorganize a new Roman province of Dacia south of Dan ...

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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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The largest ethnic Russian diasporas outside of Russia live in former Soviet states such as Ukraine (about 8 million), Kazakhstan (about 4 million), Belarus (about 1 million), Uzbekistan (about 700,000), Latvia (about 700,000), Kyrgyzstan (about 600,000) and Moldova (about 500 000). There are also small Russian communities in the Balkans, Eastern and Central European nations such as the Czech Republic, as well as in China and Latin America. These communities may identify themselves either as Russians or ci ...

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If the name Ruthenia has any connection to the name Rus, it is in the west generally held to derive from the Varangians whom the early Slavic and Finnic tribes called Rus' and this name is derived from the Old Norse root roðs- or roths- referring to the domain of rowing and still existing in the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden, Ruotsi and Rootsi. Later the name came to denote not only the Scandinavian aristocracy in Eastern Europe but also the ...

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Russian jokes - Fixed characters. Standartenführer Stirlitz, alias Colonel Isayev is a character from a Soviet TV series (based on a novel by Yulian Semyonov) played by the popular actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov about a Soviet intelligence officer who infiltrates Nazi Germany. Stirlitz interacts with Nazi officials Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Martin Bormann and Heinrich Müller. Usually two-liners told in parody of the stern and solemn announcement style of the background voice in the original series, ...

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Tsar Alexander II, who succeeded Nicholas I in 1855, was a conservative who saw no alternative but to implement change. Alexander initiated substantial reforms in education, the government, the judiciary, and the military. In 1861 he proclaimed the emancipation of about 20 million privately held serfs. Local commissions, which were dominated by landlords, effected emancipation by giving land and limited freedom to the serfs. The former serfs usually remained in the village commune, but they were required to make redemption payments to the government over a period of almost fifty years. Th ...

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Russian history 1855-1892, Russian history 1855-1892 - Economic development, Russian history 1855-1892 - Reforms and their limits, Russian history 1855-1892 - Foreign affairs after the Crimean War, Russian history 1855-1892 - Revolutionary movements

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