PUBLIC MARKS from kifolga with tags history & tourism

The royal palace, which is in the center of the city of Belgrade, is in two parts and disconnected. The city of Belgrade lies upon a narrow, elevated peninsula between the River Save and the Danube.

Saudi Arabia occupies the central portion of the Arabian Peninsula bounded by the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The vast bulk of the country is a desert incapable of cultivation and, except for oil and small deposits of gold, almost devoid of natural resources.

Country Iraq. Chief cities: Baghdad (capital), Mosul, Basra.

Country Honduras is a republic of Central America. Principal cities: Tegucigalpa (capital), San Pedro Sula, La Ceiba, Tela.

Country Herzegovina. The Hercegovina belongs to the watershed of the Adriatic, and consists throughout of mountains of barren limestone, Karst as it is called, cleft by a succession of colossal ravines, with here and there an upland valley, or Blato, which in winter and spring forms a lake, but in summer, owing to the drainage of the water through the fissures in the limestone, is converted into a luxuriant, though not very healthy, pasture.

State of Hawaii is a territory of the United States consisting of some 20 islands, 8 of which are inhabited, in the North Pacific Ocean about 2,091 miles from San Francisco, Calif. The principal islands of the group are: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai.

Republic of Guatemala is the third largest republic of Central America. Principal cities: Guatemala City, Escuintla, Quezaltenango, Coban, Totonicapan.

The island Crete ceased at once to be the gateway for commerce between Egypt and the European ports of the Adriatic, the Gulf of Salonica, and the Black Sea. The island is becoming known at all is due in the main to archaeologists and the Cretan Question.

Chief towns (1949 est.): San Jose, Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia, Liberia ( Guana-caste), Puntarenas, Limon. The country Costa Rica is composed of 3 natural regions: the Atlantic coastal plain, the central mountain range, and the Pacific slope.

Corsica, the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean, is a short range of mountains thrown up abruptly in that angle of the historic sea formed by France on the north and Italy on the west. Main towns (Corsican names): Ajaccio (Aiacciu), Bastia (Bastia), Corte (Corti), Sartène (Sartè),

Tours and rest in Adriatic. Corfu is the island in the chain of Ionian Islands in the Ionian Sea.

Bermudas Islands spots: Harrington Sound and Fairy-land. Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, is a charming little town. The islands, in a direct line, are but fifteen miles in length, and never over two miles broad.

Country Bangladesh. In 1947, Bengal was partitioned along religious lines. The western part went to India (and was named West Bengal) while the eastern part joined Pakistan as a province called East Bengal (later renamed East Pakistan, giving rise to Bangladesh in 1971)

Full description of flying vehicles up to XX century

Descriptions and old photos of the most world countries as they were in the beginning of the 20th century.

The detail description of games existing up to 1900. Different kinds of games. Rules of the games and history of their beginnings.

Capitals1900.com helps to knew about capitals of the countries in 1900 as they were represented in last century printings. Description of the cities, their population, architecture, industry, import, export.

Beautiful pond with different kinds of fish (karp, amur) near village Varjushino. It is located on the wright bank of the river Juzhny Bug in the mouth of the river Chichekleya. Nikolaevskaya oblast.