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municipality of ulldecona (montsià county, tarragona province, catalonia, spain)
municipality of unterreit (mühldorf county, oberbayern district, bavaria, germany)
municipalities in upper austria (austria): listed by colours
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  Peripheries of Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The periphery of West Greece consists of two geographically distinct exclaves, the northern one comprising the prefecture of Aetolia-Akarnania in geographical West Central Greece and the southern one comprising the prefectures of Achaea and Elis in geographical Northwest Peloponnese.
Troizina is an exclave of the periphery of Attica (the prefecture of Piraeus in particular) on the northern coast of geographical Argolis, bordering the periphery of Peloponnese (the prefecture of Argolis in particular) on the south
List of peripheries that have a common noun with a prefecture
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peripheries_of_Greece   (546 words)

  
 Euboea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The neighboring gulfs are the Pegasitic Gulf in the north, Maliakos Gulf, Northern Euboean Gulf in the west, the Euboic Sea and the Petalion Gulf.
Both cities were Ionian settlements from Attica, and their importance in early times is shown by their numerous colonies in Magna Graecia and Sicily, such as Cumae, Rhegium and Naxos, and on the coast of Macedonia.
Also the municipalities of Anthidona and Avlida in the mid to late 20th century which once were with the eastern part of the Boeotia Prefecture reverted to Chalcis which the capital city is closer than Levadia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Euboia   (1643 words)

  
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sankt vith (municipality, province of liège, belgium)
bertem (municipality, province of flemish brabant, belgium)
grimbergen (municipality, province of flemish brabant, belgium)
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municipality of ulldecona (montsià county, tarragona province, catalonia, spain)
municipality of unterreit (mühldorf county, oberbayern district, bavaria, germany)
municipalities in upper austria (austria): listed by colours
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/keywordu.html   (1776 words)

  
 Corfu - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Erikoussa is the northernmost of the Ionian Islands.
In 1864 it was, with the other Ionian Islands, ceded to the kingdom of Greece, in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants.
Michael and George, formerly the residence of the British governor and the seat of the Ionian Senate, and the summer Palace of Mon Repos, formerly the property of the Greek royal family and birthplace of the Duke of Edinburgh.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Corfu   (2507 words)

  
 List, National System of Political Economy: The Online Library of Liberty
List's habit of 'contradicting energetically' is no doubt to be ascribed largely to the fact that he was engaged for the greater part of his life in political agitation.
List maintains that in the early years of the nineteenth century England had obtained the manufacturing and commercial supremacy of the world to such a degree that all the other nations were in danger of becoming mere providers of food and raw materials in return for her manufactures.
List goes on to show that by this English method of dealing with gluts the whole manufacturing power, the system of credit, nay, the agriculture and generally the whole economical system of the nations who are placed in free competition with England, are shaken to their foundations.
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She was in possession of the trade of the world; for, with the exception of the unimportant portion of it carried on over the northern seas, that trade was confined to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
The northern Dutch provinces, strong by means of the element over which they were supreme, conquered their independence.
England had gained from Holland the greater part of the trade of the latter with the northern European states, her contraband trade with Spain and the Spanish colonies, and the greater part of her trade with the East and West Indies, and of her fisheries.
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/list/list1   (14893 words)

  
 Greece dgun.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The northern border of the Balkan peninsula is usually considered be the line formed by the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers and a segment connecting the spring of the Kupa with the Kvarner Bay.
On the coasts the climate is Mediterranean, in the inland it is moderate continental.
The Ionian Sea (Greek Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, Italian Mare Ionio) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea.
www.dgun.org /en/Greece   (10832 words)

  
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After careful consideration, we conclude that it was right that all those on the electoral roll in northern Cyprus were able to participate in the referendum held in April 2004, and we recommend that the same arrangements should apply in respect of any future referendum on a solution to the Cyprus problem.
We recommend that a population census be held in northern Cyprus, funded by the European Union and carried out either by an appropriate international body or by the Turkish Cypriot authorities under close international supervision.
We recommend that in any resumption of negotiations for a settlement of the Cyprus problem, the Government seek to persuade the parties of the need for an increase in the number of Turkish settlers who will be required to return to Turkey as part of a solution, together with improved financial compensation for them.
maillists.uci.edu /mailman/public/mgsa-l/2005-October.txt   (16765 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The mainland portion of Greece comprises the regions of Thrace and Macedonia in the N; Epirus, Thessaly (Thessalía), and Central Greece in the central section; and, in the S, the Peloponnesus (Pelopónnisos), a peninsula, which is connected to the rest of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth.
The 13 regions, with their populations according to the 1991 census, are Northern Aegean (198,241), Southern Aegean (257,522), Attica (3,522,769), Crete (536,980), Epirus (339,210), Central Greece (578,876), Western Greece (702,027), Ionian Islands (191,003), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (570,261), Central Macedonia (1,737,623), Western Macedonia (292,751), Peloponnesus (605,663), and Thessaly (731,230).
Municipalities, or demes (cities that have more than 100,000 inhabitants), are administered by a mayor and a city council, and communities that have 300 to 10,000 inhabitants by a president and a community council.
worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/greece.html   (3289 words)

  
 Cyprus - HISTORY
Britain ceded the Ionian Islands to Greece in 1864, and after control of Cyprus passed from the Ottoman Empire to the British Empire in 1878, Greek Cypriots saw the ceding of the Ionian islands as a precedent for enosis for themselves.
Municipal elections were suspended, and until 1943 all municipal officials were appointed by the government.
In the municipal elections of 1943, the first since the British crackdown of 1931, AKEL gained control of the important cities of Famagusta and Limassol.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/cyprus/HISTORY.html   (15574 words)

  
 Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1830, the Russian ex-minister of foreign affairs, Ioannis Kapodistrias, a noble Greek from the Ionian Islands, was chosen as President of the new Republic.
During the 19th and especially the early 20th centuries, in a series of wars with the Ottomans, Greece sought to enlarge its boundaries to include the ethnic Greek population of the Ottoman Empire (the Ionian Islands were 'donated' by Britain in 1863, and Thessaly was ceded by the Ottomans without a fight).
The city's northern suburbs are dominated by the Alpine type while the downtown area and the southern suburbs enjoy a typical Mediterranean type.
www.tapefailure.com /pipe/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece   (6054 words)

  
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The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south.
Also northern Greece presents another high range, the Rhodope, located in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace; this area is covered with vast and thick century old forests like the famous Dadia.
From the 16th century onwards, Salonica, a city in northern Greece, had one of the largest (mostly Sephardic by then) Jewish communities in the world and a solid rabbinical tradition.
adult-hosting.ru /adult/hosting4/Greece.html   (4109 words)

  
 Salento and the "Barocco Leccese" - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Property names are listed in the language in wich they have been submitted by the State Party.
The Salento peninsula in South-Eastern Puglia extends, between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas, from the last hills of Murgia to the headland, Capo Santa Maria di Leuca, and its celebrated homonymous sanctuary, marking Finibus Terrae, which was probably built over the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Minerva.
This territory's extension was gradually reduced and now includes eight municipalities where there is a revival of the ancient local language, griko.
whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1149   (1204 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of Modern Europe 1792-1878, by C. A. Fyffe
While the Protestant communities of Northern Germany identified their interests with those of the rising Prussian Monarchy, religious sympathy and the tradition of ages attached the minor Catholic Courts to the political system of Vienna.
In the midst of a panic little justified by the real military situation, Danton inflamed the nation with his own passionate courage and resolution; he unhappily also thought it necessary to a successful national defence that the reactionary party at Paris should be paralysed by a terrible example.
It was under the pressure of these attacks that the party of the Mountain gathered its strength within the Convention, and that the populace of Paris transferred to the Gironde the passionate hatred which it had hitherto borne to the King and the aristocracy.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/8hsmd10h.htm   (14475 words)

  
 Levy and Zumwalt/Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women. Chapter 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
During the spread of the bubonic plague in northern Europe (1334-51), Jews were accused of poisoning public wells and of spreading pestilence.
From the archival documents of the Registro General del Sello, which were the official documents of the crown, it appears that the king and the queen were loath to sever their relationship with the Jews, many of whom had been their closest advisors in the court.
In his 1454 letter to Ashkenazi brethren in northern Europe, Zarfati remarked on the Sephardi exiles, who, once in Turkey, displayed "their grave demeanour, extreme piety, and peculiar apparel at once distinguishing them from the Jews of Greece and the Orient" (Graetz 1941, 295).
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/levy/ch2.html   (10954 words)

  
 Protected Areas Programme -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
There are also some 8,000 municipalities, of which some larger have their own environmental offices, mostly involved in pollution control, but also in providing information services (Cutrera, 1991).
There is a long list of areas mentioned in the law as worthy of protection, most of which have not been designated (Cutrera, 1991).
A full list of the protected areas of Italy has most recently been produced in June 1991 by the Servizio Conservazione della Natura of the Ministry of the Environment, the Registro delle Aree protette Italiane, rubrica dei dati riassuntivi articolati per regione e per totale nazionale (Ministero dell'Ambiente, 1991).
www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/countrysheets/ita.html   (6160 words)

  
 Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 98-05-12
Xiosbank, which is listed on the Athens bourse, also said it had cut its automobile loans by half a percentage point to 18.5 percent for the purchase of new vehicles, and 20.5 percent for second-hand cars.
Kotsonis said the target was to extend the programme to all the country's medium to large municipal authorities over the next three years, while the campaign will contain an appeal to all citizens to volunteer for the programme.
Municipalities situated on the common borders of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece will implement a project entitled "Development of the Cross-Border Region of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey as a Sustainable Region in Compliance with Agenda 21 of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED 1992)".
www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/ana/1998/98-05-12.ana.html   (5115 words)

  
 Elis prefecture - Phantis
Another forests in the northern part is the Strofylia forests which has pine trees.
The most fertile land is a plain that covers the northern part of the prefecture.
Tourism flourishes in the summer season in hotels in the Kyllini area and its thermal springs next to the Ionian Sea.
wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Elis_prefecture   (822 words)

  
 Download Info of - Serbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Empire was disintegrated and fell to the Ottoman Empire, after the historic Serbian defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, and the northern Serbian territories (the Serbian Despotate) were conquered by 1459, when Smederevo fell.
Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills.
The northern province of Vojvodina is the most developed part of the country in terms of economic strength.
www.cwap.org /en/Serbia   (4633 words)

  
 Background Notes on Selected East European Countries from the Department of State
The Ionian Islands were added in 1864; Thessaly and part of Epirus in 1881; Macedonia, Crete, Epirus, and the Aegean Islands in 1913; Western Thrace in 1918; and the Dodecanese Islands in 1947.
In northern Greece and in greater Athens, three areas have an additional administrative position between the nomarch and periferiarch.
Although municipalities and villages have elected officials, they do not have an adequate independent tax base and must depend on the central government for a large part of their financial needs.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/EEurBN.html   (20889 words)

  
 TWATCH-L archives -- October 2002 (#138)
AP PRISTINA -- Monday -- Municipal elections underscored a Kosovo divided among ethnic Albanians voting for mayors and city councilors and fearful Serbs who generally ignored calls to participate in balloting as an overture to reconciliation in the province.
In Skënderaj municipality, UNDP is using housing reconstruction as a "vehicle" by which the village leadership and community support towards most vulnerable is strengthened.
Official results of Saturday's municipal elections were not expected until later in the week, but Bytyci's party appeared to have won overall.
listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0210&L=twatch-l&D=1&F=P&O=D&P=16371   (19199 words)

  
 Greece Information Center - ancient greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dimokratía; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula.
The Russian minister of foreign affairs, Ioannis Kapodistrias, himself a Greek, actually a noble from the Ionian Islands, a British protectorate in the Ionian Sea, was chosen as President of the new Republic following Greek independence.
From the 16th century onwards, Salonica, a city in northern Greece, had one of the largest (mostly Sephardic) Jewish Communities in the world and a solid rabbinical tradition.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_D_-_G/Greece.html   (4504 words)

  
 Ramsar site management plans -- Albania, Karavasta Lagoon, 1996
Environmental funds may be used to support specified activities such as the elimination of pollution sources, the rehabilitation of ecologically damaged zones and the provision of staff and offices.
Calculations of the critical velocity, based on different sediment sizes, show that the northern and central channel, owing to their excessive length (700 m and 1200 m respectively) have a maximum tidal flow velocity only little higher than the critical velocity.
The coastal temporary waterbodies and permanent lagoons are surrounded by open saltmarshes and dune grasslands of different type, representing different early stages in the vegetation succession from bare sandy beaches to reedbeds, scrub and woodland.
www.ramsar.org /wurc/wurc_mgtplan_albania_karavasta1.htm   (8453 words)

  
 Family name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Common patronymic suffixes are -poulos (Peloponessus), -idis, -iadis (Pontus), -akis (Crete), -atos (Ionian sea), -ellis (Lesvos Island).
Until a few hundred years ago, Ashkenazim (Jews from Northern and Eastern Europe) followed no tradition of surnames, but used patronymics within the synagogue, and matronymics in other venues.
When Northern European countries legislated that Jews required "proper" surnames, Jews were left with a number of options.
soldir.solutionsadvancing.com /wiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=Surnames&go=Go   (6725 words)

  
 Greece in the Information Society - 9. Regional development in the Information Society
In the national, as well as in the wider European, division of functions and activities, regions are called to demonstrate their comparative advantages, to acquire specialisation and identity, and to successfully exploit the new opportunities arising in the Information Society.
In this context the role of the regions of Northern Greece is worth noting, as the 'gateways' of our country and of the EU to the other countries of the Balkans and the Black Sea.
The new municipalities are established as powerful political entities and integrated administrative centres endowed with the necessary 'mass' and resources to effectively face various issues at the local level.
www.pdgs.org.ar /Archivo/gr-cap9.htm   (4109 words)

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