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0777 UKRAINE (Chernivtsi) - Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian...
At first glance, this building - erected by Austrians for the Orthodox Christians (mainly Romanians, but also Ukrainians and Ruthenians), after the designs of a Czech architect (Josef Hlávka), who...
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0778 LAOS - Lao Sung, the highland Lao
A true mosaic of ethnic groups, Laos has, according to Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC), 49 ethnicities consisting of over 160 ethnic groups, which speak a total of 82 distinct living...
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0665 & 0779 GERMANY (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Cologne Cathedral (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 03.06.2013 and completed on 02.08.2013With 157,4m height, Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom), dedicated to St. Peter, is the tallest Roman Catholic cathedral in the world. In 1248, when was...
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0780 SWEDEN (Södermanland) - S/S Ejdern of Södertälje
S/S Ejdern of Södertälje in nowadaysLocated at 30km southwest of Stockholm, on a bay of Lake Mälaren, which is here connected with the Baltic Sea by the Södertälje Canal (56 km in length), Södertälje...
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0781 FRANCE (Brittany) - A women from Pays Bigouden wearing "la brouette"
I wrote a little about Brittany and its pays or bro ("country" in French, respectively Breton) here, but if then it was about a dance from Pays Pourlet, the old woman depicted in this postcard is from...
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0362 & 0782 PHILIPPINES - Baroque Churches of the Philippines (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 18.10.2012 and completed on 03.08.2013 As I said here with reference to the Philippines, "from Spaniards have remained Christianity and the name". Regarding the Christianizing of the native...
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0783 UKRAINE - Men and women in traditional costumes
The array of the Ukrainian traditional clothing is characterized by wide regional and ethnic diversity, even adjacent villages displaying important dissimilarity. The conception of traditional dress is...
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0784 GERMANY (Baden-Württemberg) - Monastic Island of Reichenau (UNESCO WHS)
Reichenau, called Augia Dives in medieval Latin manuscripts, is an island upon the Untersee (Lower Lake) of the Bodensee (Lake Constance), a lake on the Rhine, situated between Germany, Switzerland and...
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0785 COSTA RICA - A farmer with a painted oxcart
The oxcart was a common means of transportation in many countries of the world for millennia, but only in very few has been given it so much importance as in Costa Rica. Considering it essential for...
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0786 PHILIPPINES (Visayas) - Chocolate Hills Natural Monument
The Chocolate Hills are located in Bohol Province and is a rolling terrain of haycock hills, mounds of a generally conical and almost symmetrical shape. Estimated to be from 1,268 to about 1,776...
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0787 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand -...
Located in the south-west corner of South Island, Te Wähipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") covers 10% of New Zeland’s landmass, and exhibits many examples of the tectonic, climatic, and...
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0788 & 0789 JAPAN (Kantō) - Sumida River Fireworks Festival
The first mention of a firework dates back to 7th century China, from where this custom has spread to other cultures. It seems that in Japan they reached in 17th century, and became popular due to the...
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0790 SOUTH AFRICA - Shangaan warriors
The Tsonga people inhabit the southern coastal plain of Mozambique, parts of Zimbabwe and Swaziland, and Mpumalanga and Limpopo Province of South Africa. The Tsongas are a diverse population, generally...
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0791 LIECHTENSTEIN - Vaduz Castle
Vaduz, the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein, is located along the Rhine, and has about 5,100 inhabitants. Mentioned in 12th-century manuscripts as Farduzes, it seems that was founded circa...
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0792 MEXICO (México) - Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan - The Pyramid of the...
Located in the Basin of Mexico, 48km northeast of modern day Mexico City, Teotihuacan was established around 100 BC and continued to be built until about 250 AD. It may have lasted until sometime...
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0793 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Tongariro National Park - Mount Ruapehu...
In 1993 Tongariro National Park became the first property to be inscribed on the World Heritage List under the revised criteria describing cultural landscapes. The mountains at the heart of the park...
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0794 UKRAINE (Kiev) - Kiev: Saint Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic...
Erected to rival Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople (the symbol of the Orthodox Christian world), the church with the same name in the capital of the Kievan Rus', created in the 11th century in a...
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0795 NETHERLANDS (Friesland) - Woman in traditional costume
Friesland (Frisia) is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea (from the northwestern Netherlands across northwestern Germany to the border of Denmark), i.e. the German Bight,...
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0796 QATAR - Skyscrapers of Doha
In 1939 were first discovered the oil reserves in Qatar Peninsula, located on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. In 1971, Qatar officially gained its independence from the...
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0797-0802 POLAND (Świętokrzyskie) - Sandomierz
Although today is only a small town with 27,000 inhabitants, Sandomierz, located at the junction of Vistula and San rivers, on the path of trade routes, was in Middle Ages one of the most important...
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