hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Breij, Syria
Breij (Arabic: بريج) is a Syrian village located in Al-Suqaylabiyah Nahiyah in Al-Suqaylabiyah District, Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Breij had a population of 2,153 in the 2004 census.

Al-Suqaylabiyah District
35°22′11″N 36°22′48″E﻿ / ﻿35.369722°N 36.38°E﻿ / 35.369722; 36.38

Al-Suqaylabiyah District (Arabic: السقيلبية As Suqailabiya) is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 official census, the district had a population of 240,091. Its administrative centre is the city of al-Suqaylabiyah. The district includes most of al-Ghab plain. It is currently controlled by the Syrian transitional government.
1993 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia – Doubles
Johan Donar and Ola Jonsson were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez.

Casal and Sánchez won the title by defeating Juan Garat and Jorge Lozano 6–3, 6–3 in the final.

Juan Garat (tennis)
Juan Garat (born 16 May 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 249, attained on 3 May 1993, and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 85 in 1994.
Pablo Ganguli
Pablo Ganguli is an entrepreneur, artist, producer, director and impresario who has created and directed several international festivals, movements and summits of arts, literature, media, film, fashion and culture, through his organisation Liberatum.

Ganguli has led cultural diplomacy ventures worldwide. Ganguli's organisation Liberatum also promotes environmental, human rights, freedom of speech and other important issues.

Cultural diplomacy
Cultural diplomacy is a type of soft power that includes the "exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding".  The purpose of cultural diplomacy is for the people of a foreign nation to develop an understanding of the nation's ideals and institutions in an effort to build broad support for economic and political objectives.  In essence "cultural diplomacy reveals the soul of a nation", which in turn creates influence. Public diplomacy has played an important role in advancing national security objectives.
King bioregion
King is an interim Australian bioregion which includes King Island, the Hunter Islands, Robbins Island, and the north-western tip of Tasmania. The bioregion covers 425,567 hectares (1,051,600 acres).

King Island, located at the western entrance to Bass Strait, is home to a range of native plants and animals, some of which are under threat of extinction. Plant species under threat include, but are not restricted to, native orchids and ferns, whilst the animal species include the locally endemic threatened birds, the King Island brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi) and King Island scrubtit (Acanthornis magna greeniana).

Hunter Island (Tasmania)
The Hunter Island, the main island of the Hunter Island Group, is a 7,330-hectare (18,100-acre) island, located in Bass Strait, that lies between King Island and north-west Tasmania, Australia.

The island is located near Three Hummock Island, several kilometres off the north-west coast of Tasmania. The island is run as a cattle property and there is a homestead on the island. A privately owned barge is used for transport to Smithton on the north coast of Tasmania. The island is approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) long, and 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) wide at its widest point.

The East India Ship Phatisalam was wrecked on the island in 1821.
2021 National Counties Championship
The 2021 National Counties Championship was the 116th National Counties Cricket Championship season. It is contested in two divisions. Berkshire were the defending champions. The title was won by Oxfordshire by defeating Suffolk in the final by 178 runs. The final was played in Tring, Hertfordshire.

Oxfordshire County Cricket Club
Oxfordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Oxfordshire.

The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Oxfordshire played List A matches occasionally from 1967 until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team per se.
Brierley, Gloucestershire
Brierley is a village in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It has one petrol station and a shop, the former owned by BP and the latter by Londis.

Brierley was the birthplace of Winifred Foley (25 July 1914 – 21 March 2009) author of the autobiographical A Child in the Forest (1974), and other later works including No Pipe Dreams for Father (1977). The village was also the birthplace of her father, Charlie Mason, who led the hunger march to the workhouse of Westbury during the pit strikes of May 1926.

Westbury, Wiltshire
Westbury is a market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. The town lies below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4 miles (6 km) south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster.

Westbury was known for the annual Hill Fair where many sheep were sold in the 18th and 19th centuries; later growth came from the town's position at the intersection of two railway lines. The busy A350, which connects the M4 motorway with the south coast, passes through the town. The urban area has expanded to include the village of Westbury Leigh and the hamlets of Chalford and Frogmore.
Battle of Salla (1939)
The Battle of Salla was fought between Finnish and Soviet troops near Salla in northern Finland during the Winter War. The Soviets had orders to advance through Salla to Kemijärvi and Sodankylä, and from there to Rovaniemi in just two weeks. From there they were to advance to Tornio and cut Finland in two. The Finnish troops managed to stop the Soviet advance just east of Kemijärvi. During the last days of February 1940 the Finnish troops were replaced with the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish volunteers of the Stridsgruppen SFK.

Swedish Volunteer Corps
The Swedish Volunteer Corps (Swedish: Svenska frivilligkåren) during the Winter War numbered 9,640 officers and men. Sweden was officially non-belligerent during the war, so the Corps was used by Finland. The Swedish volunteers were in the front lines in the northern Salla area starting from February 28, 1940. Their losses included 33 dead, 10 missing, 50 wounded, and 130 disabled by frostbite. There were also 25 aircraft that served in the Swedish Voluntary Air Force, F19. Swedish volunteers also defended Turku in an anti-aircraft battery.

By the end of the war, the Volunteer Corps was composed of 8,260 Swedes, plus 725 Norwegians, and 600 Danes. They demonstrated a strong Nordic unity that was symbolized in their "four brother hands" insignia which represented Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

The Volunteer Corps preceded the Swedish Volunteer Battalion and the Swedish Volunteer Company in World War II.
London from Greenwich Park
London from Greenwich Park is an 1809 landscape painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. It looks down from Greenwich Hill towards Greenwich Hospital and the Queen's House. In the distance beyond the River Thames is the City of London with St Paul's Cathedral towering over the other buildings. It emphasises the extent of the capital as an expanding metropolis. It replicates a similar view by the Dutch painter Hendrick Danckerts dating back to 1670.

It was displayed at Turner's own studio in Queen Anne Street in Marylebone. As part of the Turner Bequest in 1856, it came into the hands of the British government. It is now in the Tate Britain collection.

Hendrick Danckerts
Hendrick Danckerts (c.1625 - 1680) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver, mostly of houses in their landscape settings.  After some years in Italy, he spent most of his career in London, working for Charles II and his brother.
Liu Xiaotao
Liu Xiaotao (Chinese: 刘小涛; Hakka: Liù Siáu-tho; born July 1970) is a Chinese politician of Hakka heritage from Xingning, Meizhou, Guangdong. He is currently the Governor of Jiangsu and Deputy Party Secretary of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree in labor economics from Renmin University of China and a postgraduate degree in political economy from the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences.

Liu previously served in various positions in Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, including the Mayor of Shantou, Secretary-General of the Guangdong Provincial Government, Vice Governor of Zhejiang, Party Secretary of Chaozhou, Wenzhou, and Suzhou, Specifically-designated Deputy Party Secretary of Jiangsu, and Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provincial Committees.

Renmin University of China
The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.
Naish
Naish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Darren Naish (born 1976), British palaeontologist and science writer

James Naish, British Labour politician and Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe

John Naish (shipbuilder) (died 1726), English shipbuilder to the Royal Navy

John Naish (1841–1890), Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor of Ireland

J. Carrol Naish (1897–1973), American actor

Robby Naish windsurfer and kitesurfer, also Naish kites, sails and boards

William Naish (artist) (1766/7–1800), English miniature painter

William Naish (Quaker) (1785–1860), English Quaker writer and abolitionist

Robby Naish
Robert Staunton Naish (born April 23, 1963 in La Jolla, San Diego, California) is an American athlete and entrepreneur who has won 24 World Championship Windsurfing titles.  He is also considered a pioneer of kiteboarding and standup paddleboarding.

In 1976, Naish won his first world championship in windsurfing at age 13 in the Bahamas. Since then, he has been featured in films, videos, news reports, and articles. In 1996, Naish founded Naish Sails Hawaii, which manufactures and sells sailboards, sails, kitesurfing equipment, stand up paddle boards and paddles, hydrofoils, foilboards, and wing-surfers. In 2023 the Naish board business was sold to Kubus Sports.
Bengt Lundholm
Bengt Johan Lundholm (born 4 August 1955) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player who played 275 games in the National Hockey League for the Winnipeg Jets between 1981 and 1986.

Lundholm was originally drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1975 WHA Amateur Draft, 166th overall.  Before moving to North American, Lundholm played in his native Sweden and suited up for Leksands IF and AIK IF.  Lundholm joined the Jets (now playing in the National Hockey League) in 1981 and over five seasons and 275 regular season games, he scored 48 goals and 95 assists for 143 points. He returned to AIK for one more season before retiring in 1987. Internationally Lundholm played for Sweden at several tournaments, winning one silver and two bronze at the World Championships, and a bronze at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

AIK IF
Allmänna Idrottsklubben Ishockeyförening (abbreviated AIK IF, also known as AIK Hockey, often abbreviated AIK in hockey subjects), is the ice hockey department of sports club AIK based in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014, AIK's men's team compete in HockeyAllsvenskan, the second tier of ice hockey in Sweden, following a four-year spell in the top flight, the SHL. The women's team competes in Swedish Women's Hockey League, the highest division of women's ice hockey. AIK's home games are mainly played at Hovet, which seats 8,094 spectators, though some high-profile games may be played at Avicii Arena which has a larger capacity of 13,850.

In the team's 104-year history, AIK has played 66 seasons in Sweden's top division, 27 of which in the SHL. They have won the Le Mat Trophy as Swedish champions in ice hockey seven times (in 1934, 1935, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1982, and 1984) and have been runners-up an additional six times (in 1930, 1936, 1940, 1968, 1978, and 1981).
Prešnica
Prešnica (pronounced [ˈpɾeːʃnitsa]; Italian: Bresenza) is a village in the Municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

The local church is dedicated to Saint Gertrude and belongs to the Parish of Klanec.

Gertrude of Nivelles
Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled Geretrude, Geretrudis, Gertrud; c. 628 – 17 March 659) was an abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles, now in Belgium. She is venerated in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions.
Mike Futrell
Charles Michael Futrell, known as Mike Futrell (born July 20, 1960), is the city manager for Riverside, California. He is an attorney, a retired United States Navy officer, and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Louisiana House of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (French: Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane; Spanish: Cámara de Representantes de Luisiana) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people (2000 figures). Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term, as opposed to the near-universal two-year term.

The House convenes at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
Hollandichthys
Hollandichthys is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. The fishes in this genus are endemic to rivers and streams in southern and southeastern Brazil from Rio Grande do Sul to Rio de Janeiro. These are small fish that reach up to 9.6 cm (3.8 in) in standard length.

Southeast Region, Brazil
The Southeast Region of Brazil (Portuguese: Região Sudeste do Brasil, pronounced [ʁeʒiˈɐ̃w suˈdɛstʃi du bɾaˈziw]) is composed of the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. It is the richest region of the country, responsible for approximately 53% of the Brazilian GDP (2022), as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais are the three richest states of Brazil, the top three Brazilian states in terms of GDP. The Southeast of Brazil also has the highest GDP per capita among all Brazilian regions.

The Southeast region accounts for about 44% of Brazil's total population, leading the country in population, urban population, population density, vehicles, industries, universities, airports, ports, highways, hospitals, schools, houses and many other areas.
Nathalie Licard
Nathalie Licard (born April 17, 1964, in Dax, Landes) is a French presenter. Her trademark is her pronounced French accent. Licard became known from May 7, 1997, above all through the Harald Schmidt Show.

Landes (department)
Landes (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃d] ⓘ; Gascon and Occitan: Lanas [ˈlanəs]; Basque: Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It also borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the south, Lot-et-Garonne to the north-east, and Gironde to the north. Located on the Atlantic coast, it had a population of 413,690 as of 2019. Its prefecture is Mont-de-Marsan.

The department is the second-largest department in France and it covers the Forest of Landes. The southwestern part of the department is part of the wider conurbation of Biarritz and Bayonne across the Pyrénées-Atlantique border.
Dents du Midi
The Dents du Midi (French pronunciation: [dɑ̃ dy midi]; French: "teeth of the South") are a three-kilometre-long mountain range in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Overlooking the Val d'Illiez and the Rhône valley to the south, they face the Lac de Salanfe, an artificial reservoir, and are part of the geological ensemble of the Giffre massif. Their seven peaks are, from north-east to south-west: the Cime de l'Est, the Forteresse, the Cathédrale, the Éperon, the Dent Jaune, the Doigts and the Haute Cime. They are mainly composed of limestone rock, with gritty limestone rock in the upper parts.

The Dents du Midi are accessible from Champéry, les Cerniers, Mex, Salvan and Vérossaz, but have been climbed only since the end of the 18th century. A footpath around the Dents du Midi has existed since 1975. The mountain range represents a local symbol and is often used to promote the Val d'Illiez and various brands and associations in the region.

Rhône
The Rhône (/roʊn/ ROHN, French: [ʁon] ⓘ; Occitan: Ròse; Arpitan: Rôno) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lion). At Arles, near its mouth, the river divides into the Great Rhône (French: le Grand Rhône; Occitan: Grand Ròse) and the Little Rhône (le Petit Rhône; Pichon Ròse). The resulting delta forms the Camargue region.

The river's source is the Rhône Glacier, at the eastern edge of the Swiss canton of Valais. The glacier is part of the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which gives rise to three other major rivers: the Reuss, Rhine and Ticino.

The Rhône is, with the Po and the Nile, one of the three Mediterranean rivers with the largest water discharge.
Olaf Martin Kolsum
Olaf Martin Kolsum (9 July 1873 – 1 May 1962) was a Norwegian merchant and politician.

He was born in Skogn to Karl Peter Olsen Kolsum and Anne Cecilie Hansen, and settled in Tromsø. He was elected representative to the Storting for the period 1937–1945, for the Liberal Party. He served as mayor of Tromsø in 1915 and from 1922 to 1925.

Skogn
Skogn is a village in Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.  The village is located on the eastern shore of the Trondheimsfjorden, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southwest of the town of Levanger. The European route E06 highway runs through the village, just past the Fiborgtangen industrial area located along the shore. There is a Norske Skog Skogn paper mill at Fiborgtangen. The Nordlandsbanen railway line stops in the village at Skogn Station.

The 1.13-square-kilometre (280-acre) village has a population (2024) of 1,935 and a population density of 1,712 inhabitants per square kilometre (4,430/sq mi).

The village of Skogn was the administrative centre of the old Skogn Municipality from 1838 until the municipality was dissolved in 1962.
Stony Creek (Virginia)
Stony Creek is a 21-mile-long (34 km) tributary of the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia of the United States.  The creek is formed by the confluence of Butterwood Creek and White Oak Creek in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Dinwiddie County is a largely rural United States county located in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dinwiddie forms part of the Greater Richmond metropolitan statistical area, and as of the 2020 census, the county's population was 27,947. The county seat is the small town of Dinwiddie, which shares the county’s name.

The county was established in 1752 from part of Prince George County and was named in honor of Robert Dinwiddie, the de facto head of the Virginia colony at the time.  Agriculture has historically played an important role in the county's economy.  Dinwiddie's close proximity to the city of Petersburg and its railroad lines led to the county hosting six notable Civil War battles.
Balchik Municipality
Balchik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Балчик) is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Balchik.

The municipality embraces a territory of 523 km2 (202 sq mi) with a population of 19,331 inhabitants, as of 2018.

The area is best known with the Balchik Palace complex in the main town as well as the luxury seaside resort of Albena.
The main road E87 crosses the municipality connecting the port of Varna with the Romanian port of Konstanza.

Southern Dobruja
Southern Dobruja or South Dobruja (Bulgarian: Южна Добруджа, romanized: Yuzhna Dobrudzha or simply Добруджа, Dobrudzha; Romanian: Dobrogea de Sud or Dobrogea Nouă, lit. 'New Dobruja'), also the Quadrilateral (Romanian: Cadrilater), is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising Dobrich and Silistra provinces, part of the historical region of Dobruja. It has an area of 7,412 square km and a population of 358,000.

It is historically noteworthy as a point of contention in Bulgarian-Romanian relations. Part of Bulgaria between 1878 and 1913, the region was annexed by Romania in the Treaty of Bucharest (1913), targeted by Bulgaria during World War I (1914–18), and subsequently remained Romanian until 1940, when Bulgaria regained control in the Treaty of Craiova, which went along with a compulsory population exchange. Southern Dobruja has been part of Bulgaria since 1940.
1965 Blue Swords
The 1965 Blue Swords (German: Pokal der Blauen Schwerter) was an international senior-level figure skating competition organized in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. East German national champions Ralph Borghard and Gabriele Seyfert each won their third Blue Swords title, with Borghard defeating France's Robert Dureville and Seyfert defeating her teammate Beate Richter. In the pairs' category, Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther won the first of their three consecutive gold medals at the event.

Gabriele Seyfert
Gabriele "Gaby" Seyfert (later Rüger, then Messerschmidt, now Körner, born 23 November 1948) is a German former figure skater. She is a two-time World champion (1969, 1970), and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist.

She is the first lady to successfully land a triple loop jump in competition.
2019 Maltese Super Cup
The 2019 Maltese Super Cup was the 35th Maltese Super Cup, an annual football match played between the title holders of the Maltese Premier League and the Maltese FA Trophy. It was contested on 21 December 2019 by Valletta – who won league, after defeating Hibernians in the decider and Balzan who won FA Trophy the previous season. Played at the Ta' Qali National Stadium, Valletta won the match 2–1.

Valletta F.C.
Valletta F.C. is a professional football club based in Valletta, the capital city of Malta. The club currently competes in the Maltese Premier League. The club was founded in 1943 after a merge of Valletta Prestons, Valletta St. Paul's and Valletta United, the latter being a two-time league winner before the Second World War.

Considered one of the most supported and successful clubs in Maltese football, the club has won 25 league titles, 14 FA Trophies and a record 13 Super Cups. During the 2021–22 season the club was sponsored by Meridianbet.
Moroccan Crisis
Moroccan Crisis could refer to:

The First Moroccan Crisis, or the Tangier Crisis, brought about by the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangier in Morocco in 1905

The Second Moroccan Crisis, or the Agadir Crisis, sparked by the deployment of a German warship to the Moroccan port of Agadir in 1911

First Moroccan Crisis
The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis between March 31, 1905, and April 7, 1906, over the status of Morocco. Germany wanted to challenge France's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain. The crisis was resolved by the Algeciras Conference of 1906, a conference of mostly European countries that affirmed French control; this worsened German relations with both France and Britain and helped enhance the new Anglo-French Entente.