Pripyat has a catchment area of 121,000 km 2 (47,000 sq mi), 50,900 km 2 (19,700 sq mi) ... Europe's largest wilderness, within which lie the vast sandy wetlands known as the Pinsk marshes, a dense network of swamps, bogs, rivers and rivulets within a forested basin. For the last 50 kilometers the Pripyat flows again in Ukraine and flows ...

Pripyat (/ ˈ p r iː p j ə t, ˈ p r ɪ p-/ PREE-pyət, PRIP-yət; Russian: При́пять), also known as Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́пʼять, Prypiat, IPA: [ˈprɪpjɐtʲ]), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad (a type of closed town in the Soviet ...

Geography. The border is situated in a geographic region of Polesia (Polesian Lowland) that stretches approximately from the Western Bug to Dnieper along Pripyat River (just to the south of it). It is part of the bigger East European Plain and known for its Pripet Marshes (or Pinsk Marshes).. The west end of the border starts at the Western Bug, around the area of the …

Veneti / Sporoi (common ancestors of all Slavs, Proto-Slavs, and the West Slavs with the same name). It is hypothesized that Proto-Slavs had their origin in western Ukraine - west of the Dnieper, east of the Vistula, south of the Pripyat Marshes and north of the Carpathian Mountains and the Dniester, to the northwest of the Pontic Eurasian Steppes and south of the Baltic …

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.The operation, code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), a 12th-century Holy Roman …

The Mesopotamian Marshes is a large swamp and river system in southern Iraq, traditionally inhabited in part by the Marsh Arabs.. In Asia, tropical peat swamps are located in mainland East Asia and Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asia, peatlands are mainly found in low altitude coastal and sub-coastal areas and extend inland for distance more than 100 km (62 mi) along river …

Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army prisoners of war (POWs). During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and as a tank commander in the Waffen-SS.. As adjutant to Himmler, Peiper …

Holokaus (dari bahasa Yunani ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "seluruh" dan kaustós, "terbakar"), dikenal pula sebagai Shoah (bahasa Ibrani: השואה, HaShoah, "bencana"; bahasa Yiddi: חורבן, Churben atau Hurban, dari bahasa Ibrani "penghancuran"), adalah genosida terhadap kira-kira enam juta penganut Yahudi Eropa selama Perang Dunia II, suatu program …

The Danube (/ ˈ d æ n. j uː b / DAN-yoob; known by various names in other languages) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 2,850 km (1,770 mi), passing through or bordering Austria, Slovakia, …

The functionalism–intentionalism debate is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich, such as foreign policy.The debate on the origins of the Holocaust centres on essentially two questions: Was there a master plan on the part of Adolf Hitler to launch the Holocaust? Intentionalists argue there was such a plan, while ...