Southern Dobruja, South Dobruja or Quadrilateral (Bulgarian: Южна Добруджа, Yuzhna Dobrudzha or simply Добруджа, Dobrudzha; Romanian: Dobrogea de Sud, Cadrilater or Dobrogea Nouă) is an area of northeastern Bulgaria comprising Dobrich and Silistra provinces, part of the historical region of Dobruja.It has an area of 7,566 km² and a population of 358,000.

The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks.The ancient and modern name of the country is Hellas or Hellada (Greek: Ελλάς, Ελλάδα; in polytonic: Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάδα), and its official name is the Hellenic Republic, Helliniki Dimokratia (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ...

This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other Greek colonies (First Greek colonisation, Second Greek colonisation, Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek …

Lezgins culture is a unique blend of native customs and Islam like in other Northeast Caucasian people.Lezgins celebrate Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, some also celebrate Yaran Suvar, which is dating to pre-Islamic period. There is a strong theme of representing the nation with its national animal, the Lek (eagle), it's connected with a strong value on the concept of freedom.

World War II deportations, expulsions and displacements. Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 which marked the beginning of World War II, the campaign of ethnic "cleansing" became the goal of military operations for the first time since the end of World War I. After the end of the war, between 13.5 and 16.5 million German-speakers lost their homes in formerly …

The Csángós (Hungarian: Csángók; Romanian: Ceangăi) are a Hungarian ethnographic group of Roman Catholic faith living mostly in the Romanian region of Moldavia, especially in Bacău County.The region where the Csángós live in Moldavia is known as Csángó Land.Their traditional language, Csángó, an old Hungarian dialect, is currently used by only a minority of the Csángó …

The Greek–Turkish population exchange came out of the Turkish and Greek militaries' treatment of the Christian minorities and Muslim majorities, respectively, in Asia Minor during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) that followed the Allied Powers' authorization of a Greek zone of occupation in the defeated Ottoman Empire. This Greek occupation was designed to protect …

Education in Greece is centralized and governed by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (Greek: Υπουργείο Παιδείας και Θρησκευμάτων, Υ.ΠΑΙ.Θ.) at all grade levels. The Ministry exercises control over public schools, formulates and implements legislation, administers the budget, coordinates national level university entrance examinations, sets up ...

Prior to the 2012 elections the characteristic Greek political system was a two-party system.The historically dominant parties have been New Democracy and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). Under the electoral system a party needs to surpass a 3% threshold in the popular vote in order to enter parliament.

التوقعات. توقعت دراسة نشرتها مركز بيو للأبحاث، نشرت في يناير من عام 2011، بزيادة نسبة المسلمين من سكان أوروبا من 6% في عام 2010 إلى 8% في عام 2030. أظهرت بيانات من عقد 2000 عن معدلات نمو الإسلام في أوروبا أن العدد المتزايد من ...

COSMOTE, the former state monopoly, is the main player in fixed-line telephony.Since the liberalization of the telecommunications market, COSMOTE (OTE) has been slowly losing market share to "alternative", competing telecom operators, such as Vodafone, Wind, Nova.As of 2005, COSMOTE's share on the market hovered around 76%.

The Aromanian language (armãneashti, armãneashte, armãneashci, armãneashce or rrãmãneshti), also known as Macedo-Romanian or Vlach, is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian and Romanian, spoken in Southeastern Europe.Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlachs (a broader term and an exonym in widespread use …

The Avars, also known as Maharuls (Avar: магӀарулал, maⱨarulal, "mountaineers") are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group.The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of Dagestan. The Avars reside in the North Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.Alongside other ethnic groups in the North Caucasus region, the Avars …

Not included in the report by Ethnologue is the Megleno-Romanian language, spoken by the Megleno-Romanians, who number around 5,000 in the country. a ^ Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) of Ethnologue: 0 (International): "The language is widely used between nations in trade, knowledge exchange, and international policy."