For history buffs, Madrid was, in its previous reincarnation, theMoorish citadel of Mayrit(Arabic for “plenty of waterways”), founded in the 9th century on the banks of the Manzanares River as a fortress to d
The Sagano Romantic Train by the Katsura River near Kyoto. FiledIMAGE/Shutterstock If you’re interested in it, Japan has it Regular Japan visitor and rail expertJohn Waltonexpounds on the many ways – both fast and slow – to explore the country.His top Japanese journeys include following ru...
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In general the Sejm did not merely "jaw-jaw", but in fact produced a river of verbiage; Bogusław Leśnodorski claims that "there remained a great deal of old-fashioned noble rhetoric in which, among the Ciceronian moments and bloated patriotic phrases, the fundamental idea of picking ...
The city of Wuhu is located in the southeast of the Anhui province of China. It lies on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and about 74 miles from the capital city of Hefei. It is made of floodplains, terraces and low hills, and its plentiful water supply makes it the perfect spot...
The great central English plain is no flat pancake like Kansas but consists of a rolling landscape.The river Thames(which is almost as long as our own Hudson,215 miles against 315)runs through the heart of it.The Thames takes its origin among the Cotteswold Hills, famous for their sheep ...
the people living along its banks had to build dikes.They began to do this in Roman times.They are still doing it.As a result, the surface of the Po is much higher than the plain through which it flows.In several villages the dikes are thirty feet high and the river runs at the sam...
The National Park “Unteres Odertal” (Lower Oder Valley National Park) runs as a narrow band of 2 to 8 km along the Oder River. It is a man-made polder landscape. “The flat western shore of the Oder features several levees, which in order to control the water level and to ...
Along the Yellow River, a city from the future and the past resides. Ancient pagodas, futuristic domes, verdant gardens - Zhengzhou is a myriad of many worlds in one urban area. The provincial capital of the Henan Province, Zhengzhou is the encapsulation of a perfect city from its delicate ...
Within its bordersis a large river called Tagus: running through its capital Lis-bon, it flows into the sea. Therefore merchant ships going inthe four directions are plenty. This capital is a meeting place of Europe. The land produces fruits, silk brocade a-mong the most beautiful to be ...