Meknes (Morocco) The city of Meknes is located in the northern part of Morocco on a plateau in the foothills of the middle Atlas. It is located 60 km northwest of Fes. Meknes was founded in the 11th century, and at...
General information: Named in honor of the famous Spanish navigator and discoverer of the 15th century, became the possession of France in 1897. According to i Type Job, Guano and phosphate reserves are being developed. Today, a small military garrison is...
Rather modest size, comparable to Moscow alone, and remoteness from the rest of the world do not affect the popularity of sunny Mauritius at all, quite the opposite! Every year the level of tourism in this land of tropical fruits, gentle...
TERRITORY: MORPHOLOGY The Nigerian territory has a rather simple structure; it corresponds to an ancient penepian which has its prominent parts in the central-northern section, where the crystalline, archaeozoic formations of the African base emerge over vast surfaces. These raised areas,...
Global divergence was shaped during the 19th century by the fundamental division of the world into colonial powers on the one hand and colonial, semi-colonial and dependent territories on the other. However, the global North-South conflict only emerged as a result...
After the East-West antagonism broke away in 1989, the North-South relationship changed in several ways. The gap between rich and poor countries has increased despite considerable growth rates in the Third World, whereby a distinction must be made between “less” and...
With the “Anschluss” of Austria in March 1938, the annexation of the Sudetenland in September 1938 (Sudeten crisis, Munich Agreement) and the smashing of the remaining Czechoslovak state in March 1939 (establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, independence of...
Second World War, global war, based on National Socialist Germany, in the years 1939–45. Prehistory The political order of Europe and East Asia created after the First World War, which was based on the economic and power-political preponderance of the victorious...
July 20, 1944: During the catastrophic defeat of Army Group Center and in anticipation of the inevitable collapse of the German front in Normandy, C. Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg carried out an assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 in the Wolfsschanze...
In between the Russian-German treks moved; 600,000 people fleeing the Red Army sought a deceptive security in eastern Germany. During their retreat, the German troops repeatedly used the “scorched earth” tactic. A Soviet attack on the Finnish front on the Karelian...
