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6 hours ago · Poland. The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [4]
1 day ago · Orthodox Christianity (official since 10th cent.) Kievan Rus', [a][b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [6][7] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [8] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [9][10] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11][12] and Finnic ...
1 day ago · e. The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War [n] in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War[o] in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland. It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe ...
6 hours ago · Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [6][7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the ...
1 day ago · Konkani language. Konkani[note 3] (Devanagari: कोंकणी, Romi: Konknni, Kannada: ಕೊಂಕಣಿ, Malayalam: കൊങ്കണി, Perso-Arabic: کونکنی; [1] IAST: Kōṅkṇī, IPA: [kõkɳi]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India.
6 hours ago · Jainism (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ n ɪ z əm / JAY-niz-əm), also known as Jain Dharma, [1] is an Indian religion.Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of Dharma), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, whom the tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third tirthankara Parshvanatha ...
1 day ago · Nice[a] (/ niːs / NEESS; French pronunciation: [nis] ⓘ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million [4][3] on an area of 744 km 2 (287 sq mi). [3] Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern ...
