Brussels Attractions and Tourist
Attractions in Brussels There are so many attractions and sights in Brussels that even your digital camera gets worn out before you bring everything with you. Here we give you…
Attractions in Brussels There are so many attractions and sights in Brussels that even your digital camera gets worn out before you bring everything with you. Here we give you…
Attractions in Bristol Clifton Suspension Bridge Bristol’s foremost attraction and symbol is this 414 meter long suspension bridge over the River Avon. The bridge is, like so many others in…
Yearbook 2016 Brazil. The year became one of the most turbulent in Brazil’s modern political history. The current population of Brazil is 212,559,428.President Dilma Rousseff was accused of violating budget…
Yearbook 2016 Botswana. According to thereligionfaqs, Botswana’s crisis economy further deteriorated during the year. The important mining industry was suffering due to low world market prices, and the copper and…
Bosnia and Herzegovina still has a relatively short history, as it only became independent from the former Yugoslavia 28 years ago (April 5, 1992). Much has happened over the years…
Yearbook 2016 Bolivia. Clear signs indicated that Evo Morale’s government was beginning to face serious public administration corruption problems. In July, Fernando Zeballos, former Army Chief and Deputy Minister of…
Yearbook 2016 Bhutan. In February, Jigme Namgyal Wangchuk, King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk’s and Queen Jetsun Pema’s first-born son were born. The current population of Bhutan is 771,619. The little…
Yearbook 2016 Benin. In March, according to thereligionfaqs, Benin residents went to election to appoint a successor to President Thomas Boni Yayi who could not be re-elected after two terms.…
Yearbook 2016 Belize. In March, a confrontation between the Belizean and Guatemalan military occurred on the Sarstoon border. In early April, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington presented an eleven-point proposal to…
Yearbook 2016 Belgium. The hunt for perpetrators of the terror attacks in Paris last autumn continued with great intensity at the beginning of the year. In mid-March, police raided an…
Yearbook 2016 Belarus. In February, the EU decided to permanently lift most of its sanctions against Belarus, after being temporarily lifted for a few months. However, the arms embargo remained…
Yearbook 2016 Barbados. In February, the country’s minister responsible for tourism and international transport noted that 2015 was the best tourism year ever for Barbados. The current population of Barbados…
Yearbook 2016 Bangladesh. The contradictions between the Awami government and the largest opposition party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (GDP) continued to cast a shadow over political life. GDP, which boycotted the…
Yearbook 2016 Bahrain. The regime continued to push a hard line against government opponents. The Shiite Muslim movement al-Wefaq, the country’s largest opposition group, unexpectedly got its assets frozen in…
Yearbook 2016 Bahamas. In a referendum in June, a majority of voters voted against four proposals for changes in the country’s constitution. Three of the proposals concerned citizenship. The current…
Yearbook 2016 Azerbaijan is a country located in Asia. The conflict with Armenia over the Armenian outbreak republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in the spring led to the worst fighting since the…
Austria is a federal republic, and the political system is governed by the Constitution of Austria. The country has a multi-party system, with the two largest parties being the Social…
Yearbook 2016 Australia. The Australian Supreme Court announced in February that the country’s refugee management, with the custody of asylum seekers in third countries, does not violate the law. Since…
Yearbook 2016 Armenia. The conflict with Azerbaijan over the Armenian breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh led to the worst fighting since the end of the war in 1994. Heavy artillery and…
Yearbook 2016 Argentina. Former Presidents Néstor Kirchner (2003–07) and his wife and successor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007–15) and people in their vicinity were increasingly focused on corruption charges during…
Yearbook 2016 Antigua and Barbuda. In July, Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced that the government, in collaboration with Mexico, will make a major investment in new housing construction for residents…
Yearbook 2016 Angola. Angola became Africa’s largest oil producer during the year. But the Angolan economy was in deep crisis with dramatically declining export earnings as a result of oil…
Yearbook 2016 Andorra. According to thereligionfaqs, Andorra signed an agreement in February on automatic information exchange with the EU regarding private assets and revenues. The rules, which apply from 2018,…
Yearbook 2016 Algeria.In January, the government presented its draft constitutional amendments that have been discussed for several years. The proposal meant, among other things, that the president may only sit…
Yearbook 2016 Albania. Parliament adopted a series of constitutional amendments in July with the aim of reducing the political influence over the judiciary and combating corruption and organized crime. The…
Yearbook 2016 Aland. Åland’s plans for a large expansion of wind power went unnoticed when the Helsinki government in February withdrew a pledge of approximately half a billion SEK in…
Yearbook 2016 Afghanistan. During the first half of the year preparatory peace talks were held between representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States on the possibilities for a…
Africa is the third largest part of the world with 30 million square kilometers – it makes up around 22 percent of the total country area of the world. It…
Asia is the largest continent with 44.4 million square kilometers and the most populous with 3.9 billion inhabitants. Asia was the cradle of the first advanced civilizations of mankind (Sumerians,…
Europe is the second smallest continent and the western part of the Eurasian land mass. Ethnically and politically, Europe is divided into a large number of peoples and states. See…
North America North America is the northern part of the American continent between the Arctic Ocean and the Tehuantepec isthmus and between the Pacific and the Atlantic. There are different…
South America, the southern part of the American double continent, is the fourth largest continent on earth. Geography South America is the southern part of the American continent. It is…
Australia and Oceania is the name for the union of the island world of Oceania and Australia into one continent. Geography Australia and Oceania comprise the main land mass of…
Roman art, term for the art of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. It was created on the basis of Italian and Etruscan art under the strong influence of Hellenistic…
The last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy Parallel to Anzengruber and Rosegger, who stand for the traditional themes and expressive possibilities of Austrian literature, an extraordinarily rich literature developed around…
Palma de Mallorca [-De ma ʎ ɔ rka], from 2008 to 2011 and again since 2016 only Palma, Mallorcan also Ciutat de Mallorca [ siu did ðe mə ʎ ɔ…