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  Varna Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Varna is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, bordering the Black Sea.
It has a population of approximately 490,000 people, of whom around 70% live in the administrative centre of Varna.
North of Varna there is a cluster of seaside resorts all with fine - sandy beaches but differing in size and style.
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 Varna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nearby, the Battle of Varna was fought in November 1444, when 30,000 crusaders assembled at the port to sail to Constantinople were attacked by a force of 120,000 Turks, led by the Sultan Murad II.
Varna is called the sea capital of Bulgaria, because it is the biggest Bulgarian city on the seacoast.
Varna is an important economic centre for Bulgaria and the Black Sea region in general.
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oud-heverlee (municipality, province of flemish brabant, belgium)
municipality of cuadros (leon province, castile and leon, spain)
province of veliko tarnovo (veliko tirnovo, veliko turnovo), bulgaria
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 Titles beginning with p   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Province of Burgas (Bourgas, Bourgaz), Bulgaria 2001-06-01 ivan marinov
Province of Veliko Tarnovo (Veliko Tirnovo, Veliko Turnovo), Bulgaria 2001-06-15 ivan marinov
Province of Vraca (Vratsa, Vratza), Bulgaria 2001-08-02 ivan marinov
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gelderland province - the municipalities (the netherlands)
overijssel province - the municipalities (the netherlands)
zeeland province - the municipalities (the netherlands)
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north brabant province - the municipalities (the netherlands)
north holland province - the municipalities (the netherlands)
south holland province - the municipalities (the netherlands)
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The first traces of civilization in Varna and Varna district refer to the third millennium B.C. The oldest gold treasure of human civilization was discovered in Varna in 1972.
Varna was marked in the historical sources by the battle in 1444 as well.
Varna province comprised Varna, Balchik, Mankalyan, Hadzhioglu, Pazardzhik (Dobrich), Provadiya and Shumen district.
www.vn.government.bg /en/stranici/1oblast/istoria.htm   (655 words)

  
 MOESIA - LoveToKnow Article on MOESIA
The statement of Appian (Illyrica, 30) that it did not become a Roman province until the time of Tiberius, is therefore incorrect.
Originally one province, under an imperial consular legate (who probably also had control of Achaea and Macedonia), it was divided by Domitian into Upper (superior) and Lower (inferior, also called Ripa Thracia) Moesia, the western and eastern portions respectively, divided from each other by the river Cebrus (Ciabrus; mod.
As a frontier province, Moesia was strengthened by stations and fortresses erected along the southern bank of the Danube, and a wall was built from Axiopolis to Tomi as a protection against Scythian and Sarmatian inroads.
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 Moesia biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The country, however, was not organized as a province until the last years of the reign; in AD 6 mention is made of its governor, Caecina Severus (Dio Cassius lv.
As a frontier province, Moesia was strengthened by stations and fortresses erected along the southern bank of the Danube, and a wall was built from Axiopolis to Tomi as a protection against the Scythians and Sarmatians.
The district called Dardania (in Upper Moesia), inhabited by the Illyrian Dardani, was formed into a special province by Diocletian with capital Naissus or Nissa (modern Niš), the birthplace of Constantine the Great.
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 Varna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Located in Varna Province, it is a leading seaport of Bulgaria and an industrial center.
In 1444 Varna was the site of a battle in which a force under the Ottoman Turkish sultan Murad II crushed a Christian army commanded by Wladyslaw III of Poland (who was also Ulászló I of Hungary) and the Hungarian leader János Hunyadi.
Varna was occupied by Russian troops in 1828 and by British and French troops in 1854, during the Crimean War, when it served as a base of operations against the Russians.
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 BULGARIA - LoveToKnow Article on BULGARIA
Of the Neogene, or younger Tertiary, the Mediterranean, or earlier, stage appears near Pleven (Plevna) in the Leithakalk and Tegel forms, and between Varna and Burgas with beds of spaniodons, as in the Crimea; the Sarmatian stage in the plain of the Danube and in the districts of Silistnia and Varna.
The principal seats of the export trade are Varna, Burgas and Baitchik on the Black Sea, and Svishtov, Rustchuk, Nikopolis, Silistria, Rakhovo, and Vidin on the Danube.
The limits of the principality of Bulgaria, as then defined, and the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia, have been already described; the remaining portion, including almost the whole of Macedonia and part of the vilayet of Adrianople, was left under Turkish administration.
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 2.3 The Vilayet Law and the Danube Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The vilayet (turkish for ' province') law of 1864 aimed at rectifying the situation in the provinces by combining central control with local authority and accelerating the conduct of public business in the provincial capitals.
From Varna, also, there was something like a road finished for four miles, but the intermediate piece (some 160 miles) was in a far worse state when the road was announced to be opened than before anything had been done to it.
According to Tuna (the newspaper of the Danube Province, first issued on 3rd March 1865, the number of the Bulgarian schools increased rapidly during the Reformation Era between 1855 and 1876) in 1855, the Bulgarians had 588 schools in all of the Balkans and the number had risen to 1,504 by 1877.
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 Notizie Est - Balcani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thus in the province of Vraca 116 farmers were brought to trial for failure to fulfil the deliveries of cow's milk in the autumn of 1950.
The generale rehearsal for the mass collectivization was held in the province of Vraca in March 1950 by the general mobilization of the State apparatus and the Party organizations, by ubiquitous pressure and violence on private farms.
The cases of arson were the most numerous in the provinces with intensive collectivization - of Vraca, Sofia, Haskovo and Burgas and among the districts in that of Grudovo in the province of Burgas where violence and coercion in the establishment of co-operative farms on a large scale were the strongest.
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 Monica Getzova's Varna Journal
Just north of Varna is the Euxinograd Palace which was built as a royal summer residence in 1882.
s founded in Varna in 1923 by a group of enthusiasts and initially it was housed in the Naval School.
Its garden displays a collection of marine guns, the old lighthouse at the sea port of Varna and one of Bulgaria’s first mine sweepers.The collection is on show in 12 halls.
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The province of Cadiz is the southernmost part of the Iberian Peninsula.
The most picturesque and lasting impression of the province of Cadiz is its “white village”, where the typical architecture of glistening, chalk coated houses blend with that of castles and churches dating back to the middle ages.
Prado del Rey is to the North of the province of Cadiz, at the feet of the
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 Moesia
The Roman Province Moesia, mainly modern day Bulgaria and Serbia, was a stretch of mountainous terrain in the west and more fertile plains in the east.
At this point the province was renamed Dacia Aureliani to reflect this, and was again divided between upper and lower territories.
This province not only served as a border protecting interior provinces, but was the source of vast mineral wealth requiring important occupation of force.
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 Rise of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Niš and Sofia fell to the Christians in 1443 and the year after the Empire suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Jalowaz.
July 12, 1444 Murad signed a treaty that officially gave Wallachia and the Bulgarian province of Varna to Hungary, western Bulgaria (including Sofia) to Serbia and forced Murad to abdicate in favor of his twelve-year-old son Mehmed.
In November 11, 1444, Murad defeated the Polish-Hungarian army of Janos Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna.
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 Property Varna
Nearest city is varna and Nearest airport is varna.
Varna House with two floors and floorage 240 sq.m.
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 Periyar's Movement
This reactionary stand of the members of upper Varna provoked Periyar to declare that he would burn Manu dharma Sastra, Ramayana etc. to show his disapproval to accept such scriptures to govern the social, religious and cultural aspects of the people.
In 1937, Justice Party that was in power in the then Madras Province from 1921, except for a brief period, lost the elections to the Congress Party.
Dravidar Kazhagam objected to the Varna dharma connotation and started an agitation symbolically in front of a hotel in Madras (Chennai) on 5th Mary 1957.
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 Kuwait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After being allied with Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War until its end in 1988 (largely due to the desire for Iraqi protection from Shiite Iran), Kuwait was invaded by Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) in August 1990.
Hussein's primary justifications included a charge that Kuwaiti territory was in fact an Iraqi province, and that annexation was retaliation for "economic warfare" Kuwait had allegedly waged through slant drilling into oil supplies that were in disputed territories.
The monarchy was deposed after annexation, and a new Kuwaiti governor was installed by Saddam Hussein.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The story of Port of Varna started in the 6th century BC, when Greek colonists established the ancient village of Odessos - a flourishing city within the land of Thracians, later within Roman and Byzantine empires.
13th -14th centuries: Varna was a major port in the Kingdom of Turnovo and Dobrudga Province.
The same year Port of Varna Complex was established to incorporate Varna East, Varna West, Power Station, Balchik and Kavarna.
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Capital of Turkey and Ankara province, Ankara is Turkey's largest city after Istanbul and is primarily an administrative city, but it is also an important commercial, industrial, and cultural center.
Burgas rivals Varna as the chief export port of Bulgaria and is an important commercial center.
Capital of Istanbul province, on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance into the Sea of Marmara.
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 Properties.BG - We Sell best Bulgarian real estates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And near the Black Sea port of Varna the oldest (Copper Age) gold treasure in Europe was found in 1972.
Bulgaria was an Ottoman province in the course of five centuries.
With Bulgaria's conquest, Bulgarian aristocracy was liquidated, Bulgarian administration was eliminated, and the Sultans, who, for a long time, made no difference between the individual peoples inhabiting the Balkans, deprived the Bulgarian church of its autonomy and patriarchal authority and made it subject to the dominion of the Greek Constantinople Patriarchate.
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 Bulgaria Regions
The new regions seem to be the same as the Bulgarian provinces prior to 1987, except for some name changes.
A reform that year eliminated the counties, cut the provinces into 28 smaller provinces, and cut the number of communes roughly in half.
The new regions seem to be the same as the provinces prior to 1987, except for some name changes.
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 Roman Bronze Bull Cup Fragment - Bryant H. McGill - Poet - Official International Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Unearthed at a military/settlement site near the modern town of Varna, Bulgaria, once known as Odessus to the ancients; this artifact dates to the 1st-6th centuries AD, more than 1600 years ago.
Bulgaria, known as Moesia Inferior, was an important province in the eastern Empire, providing military bases; and naval and commercial ports on the Black Sea.
This artifact measures 1.50" long and is in the shape of a bull.
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 This is a translation of pages 228-299 of Boevaya Sluzhba 27-go Pekhotnago Vitebskago Polka, 1700-1903 g
From Feodosiya to Italy, from Italy to Varna, from Varna to Minsk, from Minsk to the banks of the Rhein, from there to Paris, then from Paris to the territory of the Duchy of Warsaw, from there again to the French capital, and finally to Lubny.
Not only was the shortage of quarters felt, but the regiment was distributed in the local area where the villagers as well as the townsfolk were distinguished by their poverty, and the military quartering made their situation still worse.
By the beginning of the war the regiment was located in the province of Volhynia, with the regimental headquarters in Zhitomir, the 1st Battalion in Korostymov, the 2nd in Kotelen, the 3rd in Troyanov, and the 4th in Berdichev.
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 Varna Nations
It is divided into separate provinces; each controlled by a petty king called a Rajah.
There is a ruling dynasty, the Mofhul (MOH-f-hull) Clan, but it has been a long time since one of them has had enough authority to control the proud and independent Rajahs.
This is because the caste system was designed to prevent the light-haired invaders from the north integrating with the dark-haired tribesmen who owned the land before they arrived.
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 Art of Legend India: Know India
Two other languages of the Indo-Aryan family are among the 15 regarded as official languages by the constitution: Sanskrit, a classical literary language, and Sindhi, spoken largely in the Sind province of Pakistan and also by Hindu refugees who came to India after partition in 1947.
Traditionally these outcastes were regarded as "Untouchables" because their association with unclean occupations, such as scavenging and leatherworking, made them ritually impure and able to convey pollution to others.
It provided for elected legislatures in the provinces, but property and educational requirements restricted the number of voters to about 14 percent of the population.
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 Articles - Moesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After the abandonment of Dacia to the Goths by Aurelian ( 270 — 275) and the transference of the Roman citizens from the former province to the south of the Danube, the central portion of Moesia took the name of Dacia Aureliani (again divided into Dacia ripensis and interior).
The district called Dardania (in Upper Moesia), was formed into a special province by Diocletian, with the capital at Naissus or Nissa (modern Niš), the birthplace of Constantine the Great (in 272).
Since 238 Moesia was constantly invaded or raided by the Carpi, and the Goths, who had already invaded Moesia in 250, hard pressed by the Huns, again crossed the Danube during the reign of Valens ( 376), and with his permission settled in Moesia.
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