Crimea itselfcomprisesthree regions. The first of these, consisting of the northern and central part of Crimea (whichconstitutesabout three-fourths of the peninsula), is made up of a level plain that slopes down gently from south to north. This steppe region is under intensive agricultural cultiv...
(including the British Isles and Iceland). It contains a series of great mountain systems in the south (Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians, Caucasus), a large central plain, and a N region of lakes and mountains in Scandinavia. Pop: 739 165 030 (2011 est). Area: about 10 400 000...
2 of 2 Crimean WarGen. Sir Robert Garrett with officers of the 46th South Devonshire Regiment dining at a table in front of a camp tent during the Crimean War, 1855, photograph by Roger Fenton.(more) In September 1854 the allies landed troops in Russian Crimea, on the north shore of ...
Alushta is a city of regional significance on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula which is within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a region internationally recognised as territory of Ukraine, but occupied by the Russian Federation and incorporated as the Republic of Crimea....
Europe hasn’t changed dramatically since the Balkan war in the eighties and nineties when Yugoslavia was broken up intoCroatia,Slovenia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Montenegro,MacedoniaandSerbia. The big and very controversial and it has to be said unpopular change is the annexation of the Crimea byRussi...
Central Ukraine is the region in the center north of Ukraine, and is the country's cultural, economic, and political center. Kyiv Chernihiv Chernobyl PoltavaCrimea Photo: AxeL M, CC BY-SA 4.0. Crimea is a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea south of Ukraine. Sevastopol Simferopol Yalta Ker...
Kartografia, 2006. In Ukrainian. A detailed topographic road atlas of the Crimean autonomous region. The maps have a 20' latitude/longitude grid. ISBN 966-631-805-9. 66-03741 Atlas. $39.95(Ukraine) Crimea Road Atlas. 1:300,000. Kartographia, Kyiv. In Ukrainian. 66-0374 Atlas $12.95...
Technically Vatican City is considered a ‘sovereign city-state’ and is only0.44 km2in size. Not only is this the smallest country in Europe but also one of the smallest in the world. This is a country within a city. The Vatican is situated in the City of Rome. It is isn’t even ...
region.hasParent(60199);', //remove UA* } What this function do - it generates Ukraine without Crimea, or Russia with. for #60199(Ukraine) - select all objects in 60199, but not Crimea and Kiev(internal shape) for #60189(Russia) - selects RU, plus Crimea regions....
A Polish sports newspaper has published a map in which Crimea comprises part of Russia, despite Warsaw being a longstanding critic of the region’s reunification with the country.