Category: Europe

France Fast Facts

France is the second largest country in Europe and borders on Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Spain, among others. The beautiful country is a popular travel destination – not…

Geography of Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro is located mainly on the Balkan Peninsula, a small part north of the Danube and Sava is part of Central Europe. It extends from north to south…

Nightlife in Istanbul, Turkey

Traditionally, Istanbul’s nightlife used to take place in meykhana (taverns) and gazinos (taverns with liquor, meze, singers and oriental belly dance). There are still a few characteristic, traditional meykhane with…

Switzerland Medieval Arts

Internal state of southwestern Europe, bordered to the North with Germany, to the East with Austria and Liechtenstein, to the SE and S with Italy, to the West with France….

Greece Arts Part III

Thus, different forms of autonomous expression emerge, characterized mainly by the use of heterogeneous materials and means of expression, which are encountered above all in the various developments of the…

Greece Arts Part II

Furthermore, scientific theories on the structure of language and thought have their own effect on the sensitivity of various Greek artists; the transposition and transformation of these theories in the…

Greece Arts Part I

The passage from the Sixties to the Seventies was a painful historical experience for Greece During the dictatorial regime of the colonels (1967-74), cultural life underwent a strong shock. The…

Russia Foreign Trade Revolution

The foreign trade revolution. – Everything has changed in Russian foreign trade. Meanwhile, Comecon no longer exists, with its particular rules and internal preferential relations. Above all, a large part of…

Greece Literature and Cinema

Literature At the beginning of the 21st century. Neo-Greek literature is experiencing a crucial and fruitful moment also in reference to the problems posed by European integration in a globalized…

Germany Administrative Law

German administrative law was hitherto predominantly the law of the individual Länder. Presently, in the course of the National Socialist renewal of law, it is in the process of unification….

Glasgow, Scotland

No Scottish city is bigger than Glasgow. Some residents of Glasgow have doubts about whether the metropolis is also the most beautiful of Scotland’s beauties. Especially when you think of…

United Kingdom Geography

The United Kingdom encompasses Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and Northern Ireland. Other territories such as the Channel Islands, Man and the Crown Colonies are also “de facto” part…

Turkey Geography

Turkey – key data Area: 783,562 km² (of which land: 769,632 km², water: 13,930 km²) Population: 78.8 million (July 2011 estimate, CIA). Composition: Turks 70-75%, Kurds 18%, other minorities 7-12%…

France Literature: 20th Century

The twentieth century breathes a bourgeois climate. Next to A. France (1844-1924), skeptic and rationalist, who made the good bourgeoisie of France accept his good-natured socialism dressed in the erudite…

European Union (EU)

“The European Union (EU) must aim to promote peace, its values ​​and the well – being of its peoples.” Already in the introduction to the EU Treaty, it is clear…