by WCC on January 31, 2012
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Latvia (Latvian, Latvija) is a country in northern Europe, in the center of the Baltic States situated. It is bordered to the south by Lithuania, on the southeast by Belarus to the east by Russia , on the north by Estonia and on the west by the Baltic Sea. Since the enactment of EU enlargement on 1 May 2004, Latvia Member of the European Union.
latvia riga
The Latvian flag is supposed to represent the white, blood-soaked linen cloth in which one Latgalian tribal leader was laid to rest. The blood-red stripes of the flag symbolize his arms outstretched in agony, the white line in the middle of the place, on which lay the body of the tribal leaders. Already in the 13th Century is in the “Livonian rhymed chronicle reports” of this flag as a war standard of the singlet and Zemgale tribes.
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by WCC on January 31, 2012
in Europe
Kazakhstan is a state between the Caspian Sea in the west and the Altai Mountains in the east. Measured at the surface Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world. The state is mainly in Central Asia, but a smaller portion of about 5.4 percent of the country the extreme eastern Europe attributed.
kazakhstan landscape
The only border in the north is the one to Russia. In the South Kazakhstan borders the states Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and on the southeast by the People’s Republic of China . Already in ancient times, originated in what is now Kazakhstan’s various kingdoms. Thus one of a large part between the 6 and 8 Century to the realm of “on-OK”, the Western Göktürks. In the 13th Century, the Mongols invaded by Genghis Khan in Kazakhstan later and conquered it. In the 15th Century conquered the Uzbek Tamerlane and the area under a native dynasty was Dschingiskhaniden the Kazakh Khanate was founded when the northern steppe nomads separated from the Uzbeks. The Kazakhs fought with the establishment of their khanate against the introduction of Islam, because they inherited the traditions would remain connected.
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