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	Kaliningrad Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kaliningrad (Russian: Калинингра́д), until 1945 known by its German name Königsberg, then briefly as Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг), is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
		Kaliningrad is located at the mouth of the navigable Pregolya River river, which empties into the Vistula Lagoon, an inlet of the Baltic Sea.
		It became one of the biggest cities and ports of the Prussian region, having considerable autonomy, a separate parliament and currency, and with German as its dominant language.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Kaliningrad (1948 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Kaliningrad Oblast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область), informally called Yantarny kray (Russian:Янтарный Край - meaning Amber region) is an administrative division (oblast) of Russia on the Baltic coast, with no land connection to the rest of Russia: an enclave of the European Union.
		It is the westernmost parcel of land belonging to Russia, separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuania and Belarus.
		Its largest city is Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), which has historical significance as both a major city of Prussia and the capital of the former German province East Prussia, of which the region remains the core remnant.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Kaliningrad_Oblast (1799 words)

	Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north.
		His son Casimir III repaired the Polish economy, built new castles and won the war against the Ruthenian dukedom (Lwów became a Polish City).
		Today, Poland has more than a hundred tertiary education instutions; traditional universities to be found in its major cities of Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź,Olsztyn, Poznań, Rzeszów, Toruń, Warsaw and Wrocław as well as technical, medical, economic institutions elsewhere, employing around 61,000 workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poland (4005 words)

	Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
		As the principal city of Roman Syria, the Patriarchate of Antioch was one of the key centers of early Christianity.
		The name of "Prussia" was erased, and the district was the Soviet "Kaliningrad Oblast." Now, Kalinin was President of the Soviet Union under Stalin (1919-1946), and such Soviet era names have generally been replaced in Russia; but there is a dilemma with "Kaliningrad." The original name of Kaliningrad was, of course, Königsberg.
		Perhaps the city was called a "mountain" because in a flat landscape the buildings of a city, especially a Mediaeval city with churches and a castle, might look relatively mountainous.
	www.friesian.com /outremer.htm (14258 words)

	Top20Lithuania.com - Your Top20 Guide to Lithuania!
		One of the three Baltic States along the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the south, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the southwest.
		The counties are subdivided into 60 municipalities (some municipalities are historically called "district municipalities", and thus shortened to "district"; others are called "city municipalities", sometimes shortened to "city", or leaving just the name of city; and some are just simply called "municipalities") (see: List of municipalities of Lithuania).
		Russians are the second largest minority, concentrated mostly in the cities and comprising a majority in Visaginas; they also constitute a large minority in Vilnius and KlaipÄ—da.
	www.top20lithuania.com (1924 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics on Russia. 1556 facts and figures, stats and information on Russian economy, crime, people, ...
		During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia.
		Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household.
		Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km, China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 294 km, Finland 1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,485 km, Norway 196 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 206 km, Ukraine 1,576 km
	www.nationmaster.com /country/rs (595 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Russia
		49 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 10 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 6 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast(avtonomnaya oblast')
		: autonomous oblast: Yevreyskaya; note - when using a place name with an adjectival ending 'skaya' or 'skiy,' the word Oblast' or Avonomnyy Okrug or Kray should be added to the place name
		Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', De-Kastri, Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha, Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen', Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov, Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/rs.html (1816 words)

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