Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, romanized: Elláda, ), officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa.Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast.

Slovenia (/ s l oʊ ˈ v iː n i ə, s l ə-/ sloh-VEE-nee-ə; Slovene: Slovenija [slɔˈʋèːnija]), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: Republika Slovenija (help · info), abbr.: RS), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest.

Slovenia offers tourists a wide variety of landscapes: Alpine in the northwest, Mediterranean in the southwest, Pannonian in the northeast, and Dinaric in the southeast. They roughly correspond to the traditional regions of Slovenia, based on the former four Habsburg crown lands (Carniola, Carinthia, Styria, and the Littoral).Each offers its own natural, geographic, architectural, and …

A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours.It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration.The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, especially in environments where communication is challenging …

Cyprus (/ ˈ s aɪ p r ə s / ()), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea south of the Anatolian Peninsula.It is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean, and is south of Turkey and west of Syria.Its capital and largest city is Nicosia.. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th ...

Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEH-niss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] (); Venetian: Venesia or Venexia [citation needed]) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the …

Padua (/ ˈ p æ dj u ə / PAD-ew-ə; Italian: Padova (); Venetian: Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice.It is the capital of the province of Padua.It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (as of 2011).The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian …

Levels of language endangerment. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":. Vulnerable - "most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home)" Definitely endangered - "children no longer learn the language as mother …

The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (Serbo-Croatian: Država Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba / Држава Словенаца, Хрвата и Срба; Slovene: Država Slovencev, Hrvatov in Srbov) was a political entity that was constituted in October 1918, at the end of World War I, by Slovenes, Croats and Serbs residing in what were the southernmost parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico, PD) is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Enrico Letta, who was elected by the national assembly in March 2021, after the resignation of the former leader Nicola Zingaretti, while its president is Valentina Cuppi.. The PD was established in 2007 upon the merger of various centre-left parties which …