Kingdom of Sweden:Fort Skandium sees extensive investments this years as shipbuilding facilities and ports are built in the area while in the surrounding area small defensive structures are constcuted.Crown prince Gustaf celebrates his coming of age and therefore begins taking up his first official d...
Instead, I’ve gone with a subway-style map to represent the lines. Search for subway or metro maps and you will find other concept maps that have been rendered as a subway system. Good examples of subway-style maps can be found atTransit Maps, which has a collection of real and imagin...
In its centuries of growth Paris has for the most part retained the circular shape of the early city. Its boundaries have spread outward to engulf the surrounding towns (bourgs), usually built around monasteries or churches and often the site of a market. From the mid-14th to the mid-16th...
Canberra lies on a plain at the foot of 6,200-foot (1,900-metre) spurs of the Australian Alps, enjoying warm summers and cool winters and receiving considerably less rainfall than the surrounding highlands. The city has been expanding, and its population has grown steadily. Only the centre ...
and surrounding region, including many homes as well as large public structures such as the National Palace, the city’s cathedral, and hospitals. Estimates of the number of people killed ranged upward of 200,000, and several hundred thousand others were injured. More than a million people ...
In spite of its northern location, Montana is very much a Western state. The main street of Helena is Last Chance Gulch, the city’s original name and a reminder of the prospectors who invaded the surrounding hills in the 1860s to pan for gold. By 1889, when Montana became the 41st ...
Indeed, for most Michigan residents, an upturned right hand serves as a ready-made map for roughly locating towns, routes, regions, parks, or any other feature of the Lower Peninsula. The two landmasses have been connected since 1957 by “Big Mac,” the 5-mile (8-km) Mackinac Bridge ...
Manhattan,boroughofNew York City, coextensive with New York county, in southeasternNew Yorkstate, U.S. The borough, mainly on Manhattan Island, spills over into the Marble Hill section on the mainland and includes a number of islets in theEast River. It is bounded by theHudson River(west)...
Head Of State: President: Myriam Spiteri Debono Roman Catholicismis a major influence on Malteseculture. Various traditions have evolved around religious celebrations, notably those honouring the patron saints of towns and villages. The eight-pointed, or Maltese, cross, adopted by theHospitallersof St...
UNESCO has designated severalWorld Heritage sitesin the state: the Residence inWürzburg, a Baroque palace and its surrounding gardens (designated in 1981); the Pilgrimage Church of Wies (1983), a Rococo masterpiece located in an Alpine valley; the old town area of the medieval town ofBamberg...