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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]
6 hours ago · Estonia is a developed country with a high-income advanced economy, ranking 31st in the Human Development Index. [24] It is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic, administratively subdivided into 15 maakond (counties). It is one of the least populous members of the European Union and NATO.
6 hours ago · Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two co-official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...
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 ...
6 hours ago · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 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 ...
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 · Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced [eliniˈka]; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent branch of Indo-European. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans ...
