The economy of the Argentina, in the years 1950-70, was dominated by a high rate of inflation. Between 1950 and 1966 prices grew at an average annual rate of more than 25%, rarely the rate of increase was less than 10% a year, in 1958 it was 50% in the following year it reached 100%.… Read More »
Before outlining a profile of Spanish art of the 1980s and early 1990s, it is necessary to briefly reconsider the experiences gained in the previous decade that questioned the art of the 1960s, characterized by a provocative, radical and irreverent spirit. The art of the seventies is less prone to ruptures and experimentalisms: the return… Read More »
After the First World War, the Polish contribution to contemporary art was notable. The «Formismo» group (Krakow, 1917-22), partly influenced by Futurism and Cubism, reacted to the Viennese ‘Secession’; followed by the groups Rytm (1921) and Blok (1924, M. Szczuka, W. Strzemiński, H. Stażewski, H. Berlewi, K. Kobro), continued by the Prezens group and that of the young people… Read More »
A country at peace with its neighbors, with whom it has no serious disputes, Mexico maintains a low level of defense spending. The integration with the U knows by means of the N disease has, inter alia, enhanced security, enabling it to maintain the resources dedicated to the defense of the frontiers almost stable. The… Read More »
For the information that D. could have on the political situation of the Sweden (nation as such never remembered by the poet) and in general on the Swedish environment, see SCANDINAVIA. Fortuna of Dante in Sweden. – If the name of D. had already been known in Sweden for a long time, the first evidence… Read More »
Hungary joined NATO in March 1999, thanks to the positive outcome of a very popular referendum. The enlargement, which took place with Poland and the Czech Republic, is the result of a cooperation process started in the first half of the 1990s and culminated with the Hungarian participation in the missions of the Atlantic Alliance… Read More »
The production of films in Australia, which boasts contemporaneous beginnings with the invention of cinema itself, has enjoyed great impetus in recent years, thanks to both state support (active since the end of the 1960s and, since 1975, with the Australian film commission), both to the development of collaborations with the Hollywood industry (to which… Read More »
A series of favorable occasions allowed the advent of a new wave of directors. In 1961 António da Cunha Telles organized the first cinema course in Lisbon. The intention was to train a new generation of technicians, astutely taking advantage of the contradictory political openness shown by the FCN. But the most important event was… Read More »
Since the late seventies there have been numerous archaeological discoveries, many due to regular excavations, many due to the great development that the country has experienced in every region and in every sector. Numerous museums have also been created: one, imposing, inside the Tripoli Castle, has taken the place of the previous archaeological museum arranged… Read More »
EASTERN INDONESIA. – New state, founded, according to the directives of the Malino conference, on December 24, 1946 in Den Pasar (Bali). It includes the island of Celebes, the small Sunda islands and all the other islands of the Dutch Indies east of Borneo and Java and west of New Guinea. It consists of the… Read More »
Population, society and rights The Lithuanian population has decreased by over 700,000 since 1990. Between 2005 and 2010, Lithuania recorded the highest emigration rate in Europe (2.3%). It is no coincidence that remittances from abroad now represent about 5% of the entire Lithuanian GDP. Lithuania is the most ethnically homogeneous country among the three Baltic… Read More »
Population and society With 370 residents per square kilometer, Belgium is the second largest country in Europe by population density, surpassed only by the Netherlands. Flanders and Wallonia are regions with a similar geographical extension, however the majority of the population is concentrated in the former: just over 6.4 million people live there, while Wallonia… Read More »
The Constituent Assembly (1919) voted a federal constitution with a president, a national council and a federal council and with wide autonomy for the 9 Länder. THERE. it was in a disastrous economic situation, while the disagreement between Vienna and the provinces that wished to join Germany intensified. After the socialist uprising in Vienna (15… Read More »
Guizhou Province Guizhou [gwe ɪ d ʒ ɔ u], K Weichow, Kweitschou, province in southwest China , 174,000 km 2, (2010) 34.7 million residents, including national minorities such as Miao, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Buyei, Dong and others, which make up around 36% of the population; The capital is Guiyang. The province comprises a high plateau crossed… Read More »
Population, society and rights The Bulgarian population has experienced a demographic decline compared to the 1980s, when the country had nearly nine million citizens. Today they have dropped to just over seven million and it is estimated that, by 2020, Bulgarians could drop to seven million. The phenomenon is directly linked to emigration: between the… Read More »
Here we are dealing with the history of Turkey starting from the proclamation of the republic, while, for the previous history of the Turkish state, see ottoman, empire. When the Grand National Assembly of Angora decided on the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate (November 1, 1922), Turkey found itself to be an ill-defined republican state,… Read More »
Religion of Abyssinia in the middle of the century. IV. – Christianity was introduced in Abyssinia around 330-350 of the Common Era. The vast majority of the residents of the country were then formed by a branch of the Cushitic race, the Agau, who probably had assimilated the very ancient natives of the Negro race.… Read More »
Prehistory. – The results obtained twenty-five years ago by H. De Terra with a classification of the Pleistocene cultures of India, have had in recent years a control through various stratigraphic excavations. De Terra was able to establish, with regard to the Panjab, that two lithic cultures coexist with divergent characters, the abbevillio-Acheulean one of… Read More »
Since 1960 no Neolithic excavation has been carried out but only a series of surveys which, especially on the northern coast of the island, have allowed the identification of numerous sites from that era. The Neolithic deposit of Khirokitia, which had returned a primitive Neolithic with tholos houses and stone vases, was dated by Carbon… Read More »
The ethnic composition of Tunisia was partially modified in the 16th-18th centuries due to the arrival of Turks and Levantines and their union with the women of the country; groups of Q ū l ō ghli(as those born of these unions were called) were formed in Tunis and its surroundings, in Bizerte, Monastīr, al-Mahdiyyah. In… Read More »
First of all, it is necessary to examine separately the sector of Kabylia, which is the most mountainous part of the Tell, and where the highest peak, which reaches 2308 meters, rises in the Djurdjura. But here the mountains are, more than anything else, massive. The most famous landscapes are a few throats (gorges) dug… Read More »
In the first half of the nineties there was a cautious but progressive opening of the regime towards the opposition in Morocco, accompanied by amnesty measures for the numerous political prisoners, mostly Islamist militants detained without trial. In 1995 the return to Morocco of two eminent opposition figures, first the leader of the Socialist Union… Read More »
The 20th century ended in the South Africa with the handover between N. Mandela, the charismatic president of the end of apartheid and the advent of democracy, and T. Mbeki, an experienced and pragmatic politician, a protagonist of the liberation struggle, who assumed the charged June 16, 1999. Mandela’s retirement, with its explicit connotation of… Read More »
Two fundamental lines define the Bolivian literature of the last twenty-five years: on the one hand, the continuation of the modules of realism that have permeated all the production of this century and, on the other, the formal renewal. Realist literature (with its labels of “indigenist” and mine), while substantially changed in the form and… Read More »
Take a group tour to Kazakhstan, which is located in Central Asia but a small part (about 5.4% of the surface) is in the far east of Europe! Explore this large, partly untouched land and its nature reserves, reserves, the very diverse nature, flora and fauna. You can also visit one of the many health… Read More »
Here you will find study trips and round trips through the metropolises of Turkey Istanbul Visit Istanbul, the old Constantinople, the cultural and economic center of Turkey and the only metropolis that lies on two continents. Get to know the different religions on a study tour, but don’t forget the culture and other attractions such… Read More »
Basel-Stadt is a Swiss canton. In other words, the canton of Basel-Stadt is one of the half-cantons. Basel-Stadt is part of the Swiss Confederation. The capital of the canton Basel-Stadt is. Compared to the other cantons, Basel-Stadt is the smallest but also the most densely populated. The area around Basel-Stadt Basel-Stadt consists of Basel and… Read More »
Appenzell Ausserrhoden is a Swiss canton with German speaking Alignment. The canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden belongs to the Swiss Confederation and is located in the north-east of the country. Its main town is called Herisau. There are different ways of pronouncing the name Appenzell Ausserrhoden. So it is called in French, for example, Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures,… Read More »
Bern is one of 26 cantons in Switzerland and, along with Zurich and Vaud, is one of the larger cantons. But Bern is also a city in the Switzerland. It lies at an altitude of 542 meters and its old observatory is the zero point of the Swiss national survey. Bern is the federal capital… Read More »
Barbados. Located just east of the Caribbean Sea, it is a continental island in the West Indies. Located approximately 13º North of the equator and 59º West of the Greenwich Meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles. Its closest neighbors on the island are Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the west. To the south is… Read More »