15 Nisan 2008 Salı
ALBANIA,Republika e Shqipërisë,"Land of the Eagles"
Motto
"Ti Shqipëri më jep nder, më jep emrin shqipëtar"
ALBANIA,History 1876-1945
ALBANIA ETIMOLOGY
The name is,Albania,Albaētia,Arbanētia,Illyrian name is "alb" hill,mountain alpine region;Arbanios and Arbanitai,Albanoi,Albanopolis,Arbëresh,Shqipëria, "Land of the Eagles" the origin.Ottoman rule Arnavutluk,Macedonia great alexander rule,Apollonia
ALBANIA GEOGRAPHY
Albania is situated on It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than 100 km (60 miles) from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto.
, with Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. Slightly larger than Maryland, Albania is composed of two major regions: a mountainous highland region (north, east, and south) constituting 70% of the land area, and a western coastal lowland region that contains nearly all of the country's agricultural land and is the most densely populated part of Albania.
ALBANIA HISTORY
A part of Illyria in ancient times and later of the Roman Empire, Albania was ruled by the Byzantine Empire from 535 to 1204. An alliance (1444–1466) of Albanian chiefs failed to halt the advance of the Ottoman Turks, and the country remained under at least nominal Turkish rule for more than four centuries, until it proclaimed its independence on Nov. 28, 1912.
Largely agricultural, Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe. A battlefield in World War I, after the war it became a republic in which a conservative Muslim landlord, Ahmed Zogu, proclaimed himself president in 1925 and king (Zog I) in 1928. He ruled until Italy annexed Albania in 1939. Communist guerrillas under Enver Hoxha seized power in 1944, near the end of World War II. Hoxha was a devotee of Stalin, emulating the Soviet leader's repressive tactics, imprisoning or executing landowners and others who did not conform to the socialist ideal. Hoxha eventually broke with Soviet communism in 1961 because of differences with Khrushchev and then aligned himself with Chinese communism, which he also abandoned in 1978 after the death of Mao. From then on Albania went its own way to forge its individual version of the socialist state and became one of the most isolated—and economically underdeveloped—countries in the world. Hoxha was succeeded by Ramiz Alia in 1982.
ALBANIA,History:Albania Kingdom 1925-1928
ALBANIA,History:Albania Kingdom 1914-1923 prince's standart
ALBANIA,History:Albania Kingdom 1914-1923
ALBANIA,History:Albania Kingdom 1920-1928
ALBANIA,History:Albania autonomous government in ottoman empire 1910-flag
ALBANIA,History:Albania autonomous government in ottoman empire 1912-Ismail Qemal flag
ALBANIA,History:Albania 1946-partizani
ALBANIA,History:Albania Epirus Greek Nation
ALBANIA,History:Ottoman empire,muslims albanian nation-flag
ALBANIA,History:Albania Kingdom 1940-King lieutenant
Elections in March 1991 gave the Communists a decisive majority. But a general strike and street demonstrations soon forced the all-Communist cabinet to resign. In June 1991 the Communist Party of Labor renamed itself the Socialist Party and renounced its past ideology. The opposition Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the 1992 elections, and Sali Berisha, a former cardiologist, became Albania's first elected president. The following year, ex-Communists, including Ramiz Alia and former prime minister Fatos Nano, were imprisoned on corruption charges.
But Albania's experiment with democratic reform and a free-market economy went disastrously awry in March 1997, when large numbers of its citizens invested in shady get-rich-quick pyramid schemes. When five of these schemes collapsed in the beginning of the year, robbing Albanians of an estimated $1.2 billion in savings, Albanians' rage turned against the government, which appeared to have sanctioned the nationwide swindle. Rioting broke out, the country's fragile infrastructure collapsed, and gangsters and rebels overran the country, plunging it into virtual anarchy. A multinational protection force eventually restored order and set up the elections that formally ousted President Sali Berisha.
In spring 1999, Albania was heavily involved in the affairs of its fellow ethnic Albanians to the north, in Kosovo. Albania served as an outpost for NATO troops and took in approximately 440,000 Kosovar refugees, about half the total number of ethnic Albanians who were driven from their homes in Kosovo.
Ilir Meta, elected prime minister in 1999, rapidly moved forward in his first years to modernize the economy, privatize business, fight crime, and reform the judiciary and tax systems. He resigned in Jan. 2002, frustrated by political infighting. In June 2002, former general Alfred Moisiu was elected president, endorsed by both the Socialists (headed by Fatos Nano) and the Democrats (led by Sali Berisha) in an effort to end the unproductive political fractiousness that has stalemated the government. The political duel between Nano and Berisha continued, however, and little improvement was evident in the standard of living for Albanians. In 2005 elections, Berisha replaced Nano as prime
ALBANIA,Tirane,Tiran,the capital
Tirane
Berat
Durresi
Elbasani
Korce
Puka
Shkodra,İşkodra(Turkish name)
Shkodra
Tepelena
Vlora
Fushe Kruje
Maminas
Manez
Rrashbull
Permeti
Etiketler:
albania,
balkans states,
europe
10 Nisan 2008 Perşembe
ARGENTINA,República Argentina,name is origin: argentum (silver),
ARGENTINA,Map flag
ARGENTINA,Coat of Arms,Sun of May(Sol de Mayo)
ARGENTINA,Presidental flag.
ARGENTINA GEOGRAPY & LOCATION
Argentina is a South American country, constituted as a federation of twenty-three provinces and an autonomous city. It is second in size on the continent to Brazil and eighth in the world. Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,766,890 km² (1,068,302 sq mi) between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. The country claims the British controlled territories of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Argentina also claims 969,464 km² (374,312 sq mi) of Antarctica, known as Argentine Antarctica, overlapping other claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom.
Argentina has the highest Human Development Index level and the second highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America after its neighbor Chileand is the 19th largest in the world.The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country or as a secondary emerging market by the World Bank.Argentina's nominal GDP makes it the 31st largest economy in the world
naval jack
Buenos aires
Araucania and Patagonia,Native Kingdom
Buenos Aires,Arrecifes
Buenos Aires,Berisso
Buenos Aires,Campana
Buenos Aires,Carmen de Areco
Buenos Aires,Ensenada
Buenos Aires,Exaltacion de la Cruz
Buenos Aires,General las Heras
Buenos Aires,La Costa
Buenos Aires,La Matanza
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires Province,the capital La Plata
Buenos Aires,Ramallo
Buenos Aires,San Antonio de Areco
Buenos Aires,Tandil
Cordoba Province
Cordoba city
Cordoba Province,Curuza Cuatia
Corrientes Province
Corrientes Province
Chaco Province
Chubut Province
Chubut Province
Chubut Province,Comodoro Rivadavia
Chubut Province,Gaiman
Buenos Aires Province,Tres Arroyas
Buenos Aires Province,Tres De Febrero
Catamarca Province
Catamarca Province
Chaco Province
Formosa Province
Formosa Province
ARGENTINA,Inca People
Corrientes Province,Corrientes
Corrientes Province,Mercedes
Entre Rios Province
Entre Rios Province
Entre Rios,Concordia
Jujuy Province
La Pampa Province
La Pampa Province,Coat of arms
La Rioja Province
La Rioja Province,La Rioja,the capital
ARGENTINA,Native people,Nagche Region
ARGENTINA,Native people,Pechuence Region
Mendoza Province
Misiones Province
Misiones Province
La Rioja,Chamical
ARGENTINA,Native people,Mapuche People
ARGENTINA,Native people,Huanteche Region
ARGENTINA,Native people,Huilche Region
ARGENTINA,Native people,Lafquenche Region
Tierra Del Fuego Province
Tierra Del Fuego Province
Tierra Del Fuego Province,Ushuaia City
Tucuman Province
Tucuman Province
Tucuman Province,Coat of arms
Santa Fe Province
Santa Fe Province
Santiago Del Estero Province
Santiago Del Estero Province
Santiago Del Estero Province
Santiago Cruz Province
Santiago Cruz Province,Coat of arms
Santiago Cruz Province,Puerto San Julian
Santiago Cruz Province,Puerto San Cruz
Santiago Cruz Province,Rio Gallegos
Santiago Cruz Province,Rio Turbio
Santa Cruz Province,El Calafate
Santa Cruz Province,Luis Piedra Buena
San Luis
San Juan Province
San Juan Province,Jachal city
San Juan Province,San Juan City
San Luis Province
San Luis Province,San Luis City
Rio Negro Province,Bariloche Puerto Frias
Salta Province
Salta Province
San Juan Province
Neuquen Province
Neuquen Province
ARGENTINA,Native People,Techuelche Region
Rio Negro Province
Etiketler:
argentina,
south america states
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