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3 days ago · History. The history of the city may be divided into four periods: the Old Prussian settlement known as Twangste before 1255; the Polish city of Królewiec from 1454 to 1455 and then fief of Poland from 1456 to 1657; the German city of Königsberg from 1657 to 1945; and the Russian city of Kaliningrad from 1945 to present. Twangste.
3 days ago · The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to establish hospitals.
2 days ago · The capital city Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. The German and the Masurian population of the province was largely evacuated during the war or expelled shortly afterwards in the expulsion of Germans after World War II.
2 days ago · Russian is the official and the predominantly spoken language in Russia. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language.
1 day ago · This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage , and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. Modern Hebrew. Code changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, iw. [3]
1 day ago · The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani ( / ˈroʊməni / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈrɒməni / ROM-ə-nee) and colloquially known as the Roma ( sg.: Rom ), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin [71] [72] [73] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian ...
5 hours ago · Nova Scotia ("first language"; with English (de facto), French, Scottish Gaelic) Moksha: Mordovia (state language; with Erzya and Russian) Mongolian: part of the People's Republic of China. Inner Mongolia, with Chinese (Mandarin) Haixi, with Tibetan and Chinese (Mandarin) Bortala, with Chinese (Mandarin) Bayin'gholin, with Chinese (Mandarin)
