 Roman Abramovich Roman Abramovich was born on October 24, 1966 in Saratov on the Volga River in Southern Russia. He is a Russian oil billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs.
Biography and Career :
His mother died when he was 18 months old and his father was killed in a construction accident when Roman was age 4.
Roman... |
 Donetsk Donetsk is a city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the Donets Basin region, or Donbass.
Donetsk has 1,131,700 inhabitants (2005) and the metropolitan area has 1,566,000 inhabitants (2004). It is currently the fourth-largest city in Ukraine.
Donetsk was founded in... |
 Rostov na Donu Rostov na Donu or Rostov on the Don is the capital of Rostov region and the administrative center of the North Caucasus district, SE European Russia, on the Don River near its entrance into the Sea of Azov.
The Don River that the city is named for is a major shipping lane connecting southwestern Russia with regions to the north, and Rostov-on-Don is an important river port in both... |
 Voronezh Voronezh is a large city in the south of Central Russia, not far from Ukraine. Voronezh is located on the Voronezh River, twelve kilometers away from the emptying of Voronezh River into the Don.
Voronezh is the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is an important railway junction (lines to Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Kiev), as well as the center of Federal Route M4 "Kavkaz"... |
 Saratov Saratov is a major city in southern European Russia. It is the administrative center of Saratov Oblast and a major port on the Volga River.
Saratov population is about 873,000 . In addition to the ethnic Russians, Saratov also has many Tatar, Ukrainian and German residents.
History :
The Legend of Saratov: Gelon, a legendary Scythian city, the northernmost Greek colony. Mentioned by... |
 Zagreb Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. Zagreb's population was 973,667 in 2005. Zagreb is situated between the southern slopes of Medvednica mountain and the northern bank of the Sava river at an elevation of 120 m above sea level.
Zagreb's favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions,... |
 Zaporozhye Zaporozhye is a city in south-eastern Ukraine and the capital of Zaporizhia Oblast. It lies some 70 km from the Dnipropetrovsk city and is located on the banks of the Dnieper river. It was originally named Alexandrovsk, after the commander of the first Russian Army, Prince Alexander Golitsyn, but was renamed in 1921 to Zaporizhzhia. Zaporozhye is currently the sixth largest city in the Ukraine... |
 Angola Statistics :
Surface: 1.246.700 kmē
Population: 11.500.000 inhabitants
Density of population: 9 inhabitants/kmē
Capital: Luanda
Official language: Portuguese
Official currency: kwanza
Imported products: iron, steel, food, textiles, car pieces
Exported products: coffee, sisal, fish, diamonds, brut petroleum
Brut Intern Product: 2.701.000.000 $
State type: republic
Geographical... |
 Amsterdam Amsterdam the capital of the Netherlands, lies on the banks of two bodies of water, the IJ bay and the Amstel river. Amsterdam was founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village on the banks of the Amstel, it is now the largest city in the country and its financial and cultural centre. As of 2005, the population of Amsterdam proper is 742,951; the population of the greater Amsterdam... |
 Bangladesh Statistics :
Surface: 143.998 km2
Population: 108.000.000 inhabitants
Density of population: 731 inhabitants/kmē
Capital: Dacca
Official language: Bengal
Official currency: taka
Imported products: car pieces, cars, chemical products, cereals, petroleum
Exported products: leather, tea, clothes, textile and fish products
Brut Intern Product: 19.500 million $
State type: ... |
 Leeds Leeds is the urban core of the metropolitan borough and city the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire in the north of England. The River Aire runs through the city.
In 1974 the former county borough of Leeds was merged with the towns of Wetherby, Morley, Otley, Pudsey, and other surrounding areas to form a metropolitan borough the city status of the county borough being conferred on the new... |
 Zimbabwe Statistics
Surface: 390.580 km
Population: 11.500.000 inhabitants
Density of population: 29.1 inhabitants/km
Capital: Harare
Official language: English
Official currency: Zimbabwe dollar
Imported products: car pieces, petroleum products, chemical products
Exported products: tobacco, Cr, Cu, gold, cotton, meat,
Brut Intern Product: 5.800 million $
State type: ... |
 Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and the third largest in the United Kingdom after London and Birmingham; as well as being the most populous unitary authority area. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands. People from Glasgow are known as Glaswegians. Glaswegian is also the name of the local dialect of Scots, commonly known as the Glasgow Patter.
About... |
 Poznan Poznan is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002). Located by the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical center. Poznan's impressive cathedral is the earliest church in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers: duke Mieszko I, king Boleslaus the Brave, king Mieszko II, duke Casimir I the Restorer,... |
 Dusseldorf Dusseldorf is the capital city of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and (together with Cologne and the Ruhr Area) the economic center of Western Germany.
Dusseldorf is located on the River Rhine and it is one of the main centers of the densely populated Rhine-Ruhr area.
History:
When the Roman Empire was strengthening its position throughout Europe, a few Germanic... |
 Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Novokuznetsk Population: 549,870 (2002 Census).
Novokuznetsk was founded as a Cossack outpost on the Tom River, it was initially called Kuznetsk. It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva (1857). Joseph Stalin's rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union transformed the sleepy town into a major coal mining and... |
 Bremen Bremen is a city in northern Germany. It is a port city, situated along the river Weser, about 50 km south from its outflow into the North Sea. Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen, the other being Bremerhaven. Population: 545,983 (1st June 2005).The metropolitan area (Bremen-Oldenburg) has a population more than 2,37 million.
History:
In the 8th century the troops of... |
 Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire in the north of England. It is so named because of its origins in a field on the River Sheaf that runs through the town. Sheffield has grown from its industrial roots to encompass a wide economic base.
Sheffield's population is estimated at 516,100 people (2004), and it is one of the eight largest English cities outside London... |
 Travel to Romania by Herminne Tonita -
The first question that comes into out mind when we have to decide the country where we'd like to spend our holidays is: "Why should we go to
?" Well, why should you visit Romania? The straight answer is because "it is one of the most beautiful countries of Southeast Europe" or because "few regions offer a more dazzling display of cultural and artistic treasures, or it has... |
 Democracy at Work by Herminne Tonita -
The Tennessee is one of the great rivers of America. It drains an area of the Eastern United States almost as large as West Germany. The valley of the Tennessee was once a country of tree- covered slopes, but generations of farmers cut down the trees and ploughed the slopes to grow corn, tobacco and cotton. All these crops were planted in the spring and harvested in... |
 Bulgaria General Facts :
Surface: 110.912 kmē
Population: 8.967.000 inhabitants
Density of population: 81 inhabitants/kmē
Capital: Sofia (1.221.000 inhabitants)
Official language: Bulgarian
Official currency: leva
Imported products: hydrocarbons, iron ore, pit coal
Brut Intern Product: 2.250 $/inhabitant
State type: Republic
Geographical Characteristics :
The country is situated in the... |
 Burkina Faso General Facts :
Surface: 274.200 kmē
Population: 9.242.000 inhabitants
Density of population: 34 inhabitants/kmē
Capital: Ouagadougou (442.000 inhabitants)
Exported products: sorghum, millet, cotton
Official language: French
Official currency: franc
Brut Intern Product: 247 million $
State type: Republic
Geographical Characteristics :
The country is situated in the west of... |
 Belarus General Facts:
Surface: 207.600 kmē
Population: 10.297.000 inhabitants
Density of population: 50 inhabitants/kmē
Capital: Minsk (1.613.000 inhabitants)
Official language: Belarusian
Official currency: ruble
Brut Intern Product: 5.960 $/inhabitant
State type: Republic
Geographical Characteristics :
The country is situated in the east of Europe and hasn't direct access at the... |
 Problems along the River Quangga by Cristina Nuta -
Water is very important to our continent and humans use a great quantity of water, even if only 3% of the world's water is fresh water. And if we pollute water which feeds our towns, then we are going to have huge problems. A few years ago there was a complicated situation as four countries used water from a single river, the Quagga, each one using its water in its own... |
