There is a lack of reliable data on the statistics of occupations and professions in Spain, but this is not far from the truth, considering that the active population is around a little more than 1/3 of the total (37.2% in 1920). Agriculture, forests and fishing absorb more than half […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
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The economic crisis that has hit many European countries has hit Poland less hard than others, also thanks to the possibility of using monetary policy to counter the recession; in fact, Poland, having not yet joined the eurozone, despite having fixed an exchange parity of its own currency with the […]
In February 1996 the negotiations led to the signing of a compromise agreement (San Andrés agreements) which set aside the question of agrarian reform and offered a series of guarantees in favor of the cultural, linguistic and local autonomy rights of the Indians. If for Chiapas the moment of negotiations […]
Cinema. – Consistent with the growing international diffusion of the thriller in the literary field, it is in the corresponding genre of cinema and television consumption that the Swedish audiovisual industry has found commercial success, resorting to the adaptation of successful books: the works of Liza Markulund, Åsa Larsson, Lars […]
After a difficult start, Hungarian cinema gained momentum, starting in 1912, with one of the first feature films, N ő verék . (“Sisters”) of Ö. Uher. This film was followed by many others, to the point that on the threshold of the First World War, Hungarian cinema was one of the most prosperous in Europe. […]
The half-century following the discovery of gold not only laid the ethnic-demographic, economic and social foundations of a new people in the southern hemisphere, emerging from the fertile womb of the great British mother, but also the political foundations of its national constitution, with the creation in 1900 of an […]
Population, society and rights Until a few years ago, Portugal was considered a country of emigration, especially to former colonies such as Brazil. Since the 1990s, especially after joining the European Economic Community, this phenomenon has reversed, only to resume coinciding with the global crisis of 2008-2009, accompanied by a […]
The constitutional reform of 1977 changed the name of the state to the People’s Socialist Libyan Arab Republic (Ǧamāhīriyya), investing the General People’s Congress with power. The Libya has long claimed a strip of territory (strip of Ūzū) currently under the sovereignty of Chad; the controversy culminated in military actions […]
This name commonly indicates that island world that extends between the south-eastern part of the Asian continent and New Guinea, starting from the Andaman group up to the Aru and Formosa islands: three island regions which, moreover, are usually excluded.. Indonesia is also called Insulindia or Australasian Archipelago and also, […]
Administratively, the state is divided into 29 districts (apskritis), which have an average extension of 2420 sq km, ranging from a maximum of 6018 (Šiauliai) to a minimum of 815 (Šilutė); there are also 6 cities with rights equal to those of the district. The population is on the whole […]
During the period following the First World War, regionalism, which even a few years earlier had found expression in illustrious authors, such as E. Glesener, G. Garnir, H. Krains, L. Delattre, is now in a phase of decline, although still inspiring the novel-river by J. Tousseul (Jean Clarambaux, 1927-1936), so […]
Woods. – Austria is very rich in construction timber. Of the total area of forests, which cover sq. Km. 31,393, 22,221 sq km. they are of coniferous trees and 2,397 of deciduous plants, the rest of mixed essences. The maximum extension of the coniferous trees occurs in Styria with 6760 […]
After the dissolution of the Soviet bloc The dissolution of the Soviet bloc opened a complex phase of political change in Bulgaria Previously heavily dependent on the USSR both for commercial exchanges and for energy supply, Bulgaria was greatly affected by the crisis that Russia went through.post-Soviet era, the instability […]
The adaptation of political, economic and social institutions to the parameters required by the European Union (EU) in view of the start of negotiations for the entry of Turkey as its member state, constituted in the early 21st century. the objective on which all the efforts of the political class […]
Later Italy, which had bought Assab (‛Asab) since 1869, expanded its possessions on the Red Sea coast driven both by the political opportunity of the crisis caused by the Mahdī revolt in Sudan, and by the need not to go unpunished. the massacres of the Giulietti (1881) and Bianchi (1883) […]
Neo-Indian literature. – The neo-Indian literatures, apart from their real literary value, are worthy of particular study because they document the continuous renewal of the Indian soul: they have received vigor and have evolved and perfected due to the influence of great personalities, especially religious women who, breaking with tradition, […]
Population. – The island had 310,700 residents. according to the census of 1921, 339,400 according to a calculation of 1927 (37 per sq. km.), mostly Greek-speaking and adherents to the autonomous Orthodox Church of Cyprus. According to previous censuses, the proportion of the various ethnic elements, which must not be […]
The agreement of March 1962 between the Algerian Resistance and France facilitated the solution of the Bizerte problem, the base of which was returned to Tunisia in June. But it was a brief improvement: relations between the two states broke down again (to the point of inducing France to suspend […]
The populations that inhabited today’s Algeria were involved, from the 4th century. BC, in all the struggles of north-western Africa: in particular the Numidians, involved in the Punic wars of the 3rd century, ended up falling between 46 and 44 BC under the direct dominion of Rome. The Arabs appeared […]
After the 1977 elections, the economic crisis began to have repercussions in the political life of Morocco. In 1980, following the government decision to significantly reduce spending on public education, students vigorously protested with a series of demonstrations and strikes. The situation worsened in June 1981, when at least 66 […]
History. – In April 2009 the legislative elections took place, which once again saw the victory of the African national congress (ANC) with 65.9% of the votes. 16.6% went to the Demo cratic alliance (DA) and 7.6% to the Congress of the people (COPE). In May Jacob Zuma (v.) Was […]
The most recent cartometric measurement of Bolivia indicated an area of 1,098,581 km 2. Population. – The population census carried out in September 1950 gave 3,019,031 residents, which an evaluation raises in 1959 to 3,400,000 (3 per km 2). Economic conditions. – The crops of barley (62,000 ha), rice (19,000 […]
According to topschoolsintheusa, Kyrgyzstan is part of Central Asia and is one of those countries with a particularly broad spectrum in terms of landscape, vegetation and ethnology. Above all, Kyrgyzstan – often also referred to as Kyrgyzstan or Kyrgyzstan – is a country in which many original areas can be […]
Uppsala University. It is an institution located in the city of Uppsala, Sweden, and it is the oldest study house in Scandinavia. It was founded in 1477. It is ranked among the best universities in Northern Europe. Description According to bridgat, the University of Uppsala (in Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is […]
Take an extremely educational tour of India, a country with a very old culture and tradition! India is located in South Asia and spreads over a large part of the Indian subcontinent! With a population of over a billion people, India is the second largest country in the world, but […]
In the 1960s, a new generation of writers appeared in public, with whom Swiss literature also set new accents in an international context: the politicization of literature, profoundly ironic depiction, and often satirical criticism of compatriots and their ways of life characterize the works of P. Bichsel, H. Loetscher, A. […]
The First World War initially changed little in the preference for local themes and conventional narrative styles. Although Dadaism originated in Zurich, it hardly left any traces in Swiss literature. The departure from home literature and the G. Kellermodel, as demanded by the Zurich literary critic E. Korrodi, did indeed […]
Airplane: Swiss International Air Lines offers domestic flights between all major Swiss Airports, such as EuroAirport and Zurich and Geneva airports. In the winter months, helicopter operators also offer flights around the Alps. There is also the possibility to fly with the Zeppelin over the lakes of Lucerne and Constance. […]
History After being a satrapy of Achaemenid Persia and being subject to the power of Alexander the Great and his successors, Armenia agreed to its first independence in 189 BC. During the reign of Tigranes II the Great (94-55 BC), the region became an empire that had its extremes in Palestine and in Transcaucasia. In the following centuries, […]
The distribution of power between liberals and conservatives continued even after the National Front ended in 1974, although the political participation of other parties was allowed as of the 1968 constitutional reform. From this period, the development of drug trafficking in Colombia began, which has been one of the key factors in the country’s conflictive […]