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1150 MONTENEGRO (Kotor) - A couple in traditional costumes
Slavs (including Croats and Serbs) have lived in the area of Montenegro since the 6th and 7th centuries in the medieval principalities of Doclea and Zeta, and the area got its present name...
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1151 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (Abu Dhabi) - Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Built between 1996 and 2007 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is the eighth largest mosque in the world (with a capacity for 40,000 worshippers), and is considered to...
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1152-1154 ARUBA - The map of the country
Located about 1,600km west of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea and 27km north of the coast of Venezuela, Aruba forms, together with Bonaire and Curaçao, a group referred to as the ABC...
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1155, 1156 UNITED STATES (South Dakota) - Presidents and Founding Fathers
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota Sioux name: Six Grandfathers) near Keystone. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and...
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1157 POLAND - The map and the flag of the country
Located between Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania, Poland is an almost unbroken plain reaching from the Baltic Sea in the...
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1158 MADAGASCAR - Les baobabs amoureux in Morondava
Once upon a time, a young man and a young woman of two nearby villages fell in love from each other. Unfortunately both had already an assigned partner and had to marry separately in their respective...
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1159 MARTINIQUE - Woman dressed into traditional Creole clothes
Located in Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Martinique, as also Guadeloupe, is an overseas region of France, so its culture blends French and Caribbean influences. The city of Saint-Pierre...
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1160 CAMBODIA (Siem Reap) - Traditional Apsara dancer
Apsaras are female spirits of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, assimilated to some extent with nymphs from european mythology. They are youthful and elegant, and superb in the art...
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1161 BANGLADESH (Dhaka) - National Martyrs' Memorial in Savar
Located at about 35km northwest of Dhaka, the capital city of the country, Jatiyo Smriti Soudho, the National Monument for the Martyrs of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 (which brought...
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1162 UNITED STATES (Georgia) - The map of State of Georgia
Located in the southeastern United States, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, between Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina, Georgia, also known as Peach State, was...
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1163-1166 ARUBA - California Lighthouse
Located near Arashi Beach on the northwest tip of Aruba, in the area known as Hudishibana, California Lighthouse was named for the British wooden steamship California, which wrecked nearby on September...
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1167 BULGARIA (Blagoevgrad) - A woman from Gotse Delchev with traditional...
I wrote here a little about the bulgarian traditional clothes, and about the main bulgarian ethnographic regions, so I don't insist for now. The woman in the postcard is from Gotse Delchev, in the...
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1168 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Traditional arabian horse rider
Admired and desired, immortalised by pen and brush, the Arabian horse had, arguably, more influence on civilisation than any other equine breed. The nomadic Bedouin were the first who tame the wild...
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1169 MONGOLIA - The statue of Sükhbaatar in Ulaanbaatar
The central square of Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, is Sükhbaatar Square, named after the equestrian statue of Damdin Sükhbaatar, located directly in front of the Saaral Ordon (Government...
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0733, 0734, 1136, 1170 CROATIA (Split-Dalmatia) - Historical Complex of Split...
Posted on 11.07.2013, 09.07.2014, and 29.07.2014It is said that the Diocletian's Palace is placed on the center of the city of Split. For the sake of accuracy, I must say that in fact the city was...
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1171 JORDAN - Jerash Archaeological City (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)
Situated in the north of Jordan, 48km north of the capital Amman towards Syria, Jerash is the site of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River....
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1172 SWEDEN - Swedish Royals on Sweden's National Day
National Day of Sweden is a national holiday observed in Sweden on the 6th of June every year. Prior to 1983, the day was celebrated as Swedish Flag Day. The tradition of celebrating this date began in...
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1173 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Spaceship Earth and Monorail Peach in Epcot
The Walt Disney World Resort, or simply Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, opened on October 1, 1971. The property covers 16,997 ha, in which it houses 24 themed...
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1174-1179 UNITED NATIONS - UN at a glance
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945, after the WWII, to prevent another such conflict, actually a replacement for the ineffective League of...
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1180, 1181 ROMANIA (Tulcea) - Danube Delta (UNESCO WHS)
The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part lies in Romania (Tulcea county), while its northern part,...
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