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Kvutzat Yavne

**Kvutzat Yavne** () is a releegious kibbutz in the Center Destrict o Israel. Locatit in the coastal plain juist east o Ashdod, it faws unner the jurisdiction o Hevel Yavne Regional Cooncil. In 2007 it haed a population o 1,100.

## History
The idea o Kvutzat Yavne wis conceived in Germany. The intention o the foonders wis tae mak the aurie near auncient Yavne (frae which it takes its name) the steid o a releegious kibbutz an a yeshiva. Thir foonders, members o the Releegious Zionist muivement, began tae prepare thairsels for agricultural wirk on German ferms in 1929. Shortly thereefter, thay immigratit tae Mandate Palestine. Thay initially settled near Petah Tikva on land purchased bi a Jewish-awned German company. Feenally, in 1941, the 180-person group o German Zionists, began tae big Kvutzat Yavne at its intendit location. The kibbutz continued tae grow, jynt bi German, American, an Sabras. It came tae be kent as the cradle o the Releegious Kibbutz Muivement, wi which the kibbutz is associatit.

## Economy
Maist o Yavne's agricultural production is in field crops, fruit orcharts, poutrie, an dairy, aw contained athin approximately 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) o land. Major industry locatit on the kibbutz includes olive an cucumber processin plants, the Adi watch factory, an the lairgest chicken hatchery in the kintra (dispatchin 600,000 chicks per day). It is an aa the location o Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, the first Hesder Yeshiva. The kibbutz runs a Jewish studies program that prepares candidates for conversion tae Judaism. Thare is an aa an Ebreu ulpan for baith Jewish students an Gerim.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial wabsteid
Sooth Lanrikshire

**Sooth Lanrikshire** (, ) is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. Hit kivers the soothren pairt o the umwhyl coontie o Lanrikshire. It borders the sooth-eist o the ceitie o Glesga an inhauds monie o Glesga's suburbs, commuter touns an smawer veilages.

## Touns an veilages
### Main touns

*Blantyre
*Cammuslang
*Carluke
*East Kilbride
*Hamiltoun
*Lanrik
*Larkhaw
*Ruglen
*Straiven


### Ither sattilments

*Abington
*Ashgill
*Auchengray
*Auchenheath
*Auldhoose
*Biggar
*Blekwid
*Bothwell
*Braeheid
*Braidwid
*Burnside
*Carmichael
*Carnwath
*Carstairs
*Chapelton
*Cleghorn
*Coalburn
*Cobbinshaw
*Coulter
*Crawfuird
*Crawfuirdjohn
*Crossfuird
*Dalserf
*Dolfinton
*Douglas
*Douglas Wattir
*Elsrikil
*Forth
*Glessfuird
*Glespin
*Kilncadzow
*Kirkfeildbank
*Kirkmuirhill
*Law
*Leadhills
*Lesmahagow
*Newbiggin
*Nerston
*Pettinain
*Quarter
*Quothquan
*Rigside
*Rosebank
*Saundfuird
*Stanehouss
*Syminton
*Tarbrax
*Thankerton
*Thorntonhauch
*Uddinston
*Wattirfit (pairt o)
*Wiston
*Woolfuirds


## Steids o interest
*Hamilton Mausoleum
*Bothwell Castil
*Strathaven Castil
*John Hastie Museum, Strathaven
*Low Pairks Museum, Hamilton
*Chatelherault Kintra Pairk near Hamilton, inhaudin Cadzow Castil
*Craignethan Castil
*David Livingstone Centur, Blantyre
*Dollan Baths, Eist Kilbride
*Falls o Clyde
*Littil Sparta, near Dunsyre
*New Lanrik, a Warld Heritage Steid
*Steids o the Battle o Drumclog an the Battle o Bothwell Brig
North Lanrikshire

**North Lanrikshire** (, ) is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It borders ontil the nor'eist o the ceitie o Glesga an inhauds mukkil o Glesga's suburbs an commuter touns an veelages. Hit haes mairches wi Stirlin, Fawkirk, East Dunbartonshire, Wast Lowden an Sooth Lanrikshire. The cooncil kivers pairts o the umwhyl coonties o Lanrikshire, Dunbairtonshire an Stirlinshire.

The area wis maed in 1996, maistlin frae the Cummernaud an Kilsyth, Mitherwall an Monklands destriks an hantil pairts o Strathclyde Regional Cooncil.

## Main touns
Touns wi ower 10,000 indwallers:
*Airdrie
*Bellshill
*Coatbrig
*Cummernaud
*Kilsyth
*Mitherwall
*Wishae

## Wee touns an veilages

*Allantoun
*Auchinloch
*Annathill
*Bantoun
*Bargeddie
*Bonkle
*Camnethan
*Cardowan
*Calderbank
*Caldercruix
*Carfin
*Carnbroe
*Chapelhall
*Chrystoun
*Cleland
*Coltness

*Croy
*Dullatur
*Forrestfeild
*Garrion Brig
*Gartcosh
*Glenboig
*Glenmavis
*Greengairs 
*Harthill
*Hareshaw
*Halytoun
*Kelvinheid
*Langrigend
*Luggiebank
*Mollinsburn
*Moodiesburn
*Mossend
*Muirheid

*Newmains
*Newhouss
*Newarthill
*New Stevenston
*Owertoun
*Plains
*Queenzieburn
*Ravenscraig
*Rigend
*Salsburgh
*Shotts
*Stand
*Stepps
*Tannochside
*Viewpairk
*Wattston
*Waterloo
Givat Washington

**Givat Washington** (, *lit.* Washington Hill), kent as **Beit Raban** (, lit. *Hoose o Raban*) an aw, is a releegious youth veelage in central Israel. Locatit near Kvutzat Yavne, it faws unner the jurisdiction o Hevel Yavne Regional Cooncil. In 2006 it haed a population o 670. 

The veelage wis established in 1946 bi the Jewish community o Washington D.C., an initially served as an educational establishment for young Holocaust survivors. It nou haes a seicontary schuil, a midrasha, an ulpan an an academic college. Bi 2005 maist o the residents wur immigrants frae Fraunce an Colombie.

## Freemit airtins
*Washington College
Fawkirk (cooncil area)

**Fawkirk Cooncil Area** (, ) is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It haes mairches wi North Lanrikshire til the soothwast, Stirlin til the nor'wast, Wast Lowden til the sootheist an, athort the Firth o Forth til the nor'eist, Fife an Clackmannanshire. The cooncil area wis shapit on 1 Aprile 1996 frae the same mairches o *Fawkirk Destrik Cooncil* bi wey o the *Local Govrenment etc. (Scotland) Act 1994*. Afore 1975 maist o the cooncil area wis pairt o the coontie o Stirlinshire an a wee pairt, namelie Bo'ness an Blackness, wis pairt o the umwhyl coontie o Wast Lowden.

## Sattilments
;Bo'ness Area
:*Blackness
:*Bo'ness

;Braes Area
:*Avonbrig
:*Brightons
:*California
:*Laurieston
:*Limerigg
:*Maddiston
:*Powmont
:*Reddin
:*Reddinmuirheid
:*Rumfuird
:*Shieldhill
:*Slamannan
:*Standburn
:*Wallacestane
:*Wastquarter
:*Whitecross

;Denny, Bonnybridge & Banknock Area

:*Allandale
:*Banknock
:*Bonniebrig
:*Dennie
:*Dennieloanheid
:*Dunipace
:*Haggs
:*Langcroft

;Fawkirk Area
:*Bainsfuird
:*Caimlan
:*Fawkirk (toun)
:*Hallglen
:*Tamfourhill
:*Widlands

;Grangemooth Area
:*Grangemooth
:*Skinflats

;Larbert & Stenhoussmuir Area
:*Airth
:*Carron
:*Carronshore
:*Dunmore
:*Lairbert
:*Letham
:*Stanehoosemuir
:*Torwid

## References
Göppingen (destrict)

**Göppingen** is a Kreis (destrict) in the middle o Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighborin destricts are Rems-Murr, Ostalbkreis, Heidenheim, Alb-Donau, Reutlingen an Esslingen.

## History
The destrict wis creatit in 1938 bi mergin the twa *Oberämter* Geislingen an Göppingen. Durin the communal reform o 1973 the destrict wis no chyngit hintle, anerlie a few municipalities frae the destricts Schwäbisch Gmünd an Ulm wur addit.

The destrict is sometimes cried *Stauferkreis*, acause the Staufen faimily haed their ruits in this aurie. Housomeivver when that faimily haed nae heir onymair the land became pairt o Württemberg in the 14t century.

## Pairtnerships
In 1990 a pairtnership wi the destrict Löbau (nou merged intae Löbau-Zittau) in the Free State o Saxony wis stairtit, tae help tae build the admeenistration accordin tae wastren German staundarts. The municipality Boll awready haed a pairtnership wi Herrnhut in Löbau afore. Efter the destricts stairtit their pairtnership, several ither municipalities o the twa destricts stairtit pairtnership as well.

## Geography
The destrict is locatit in the northren fuithills o the Swabie Jura (*Schwäbische Alb*). It is crossed bi the Fils, a tributary o the Neckar.

## Coat o airms
The lion is the seembol o the Staufen faimily, which haed its ruits in the destrict. The deer antler abuin is the seembol o Württemberg an seembolizes the chynge o awnership efter the Staufer faimily dee'd oot.

## Ceeties an municipalities

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Offeecial wabsteid (German)
Göppingen

**Göppingen** is a toun in soothren Germany, pairt o the Stuttgart Region o Baden-Württemberg. It is the caipital o the destrict Göppingen. It is situatit at the bottom o the Hohenstaufen muntain, in the valley o the river Fils.

The German branch o SIGG haes its offices in the ceety.

## History
Tradition haes it that the ceety wis foondit bi an Alemannic leader cried Geppo sometime in the 3rd or 4t century. A disastrous fire on August 25, 1782 destroyed maist o the toun, but it wis immediately rebuilt. Industrialisation durin the 19t century made the aurie intae a centre o industry. The importance o such industry is still seen in the toun in the present day in companies such as Märklin an Schuler.

### Cooke Barracks
In 1930, a civilian air field wis built north o Göppingen.  This wis acquired bi the Luftwaffe in 1935 an expandit intae Fliegerhorst Kaserne.  Frae 1945 through 1949, displaced persons an refugees wur hoosed in the kaserne.  In 1949, it wis renamed Cooke Barracks in honor o Charles H. Cooke, Jr. who haed been posthumously awardit the Silver Star and Soldier's Medal for gallantry in action.  In late 1950, the 7t Army haed been reactivatit in Stuttgart an U.S. Airmy units began tae be stationed at Cooke Barracks.  The barracks began tae be expandit an wis uised as the 28t Infantry Diveesion heidquarters.  The 28t Infantry wis redesignatit as the 9t Infantry Diveesion (Unitit States) in 1954 an wis replaced bi the 8t Infantry Diveesion in 1956.  They wur then replaced bi the 4t Armored Diveesion in 1957, which wis redesignatit as the 1st Armored Diveesion in 1971 an muivit tae Hindenburg Kaserne in Ansbach in 1972.  The 1st Infantry Diveesion muivit frae Augsburg in 1972 till they wur deactivatit in 1991.  Cooke Barracks wis returned tae the German govrenment in 1992.  The barracks wur again uised tae hoose refugees for some time, then returned tae ceevilian uise. A wabsteid, CookeBarracks.com, is dedicatit tae those who served at Cooke Barracks.

## Sport
Frisch Auf! Göppingen currently plays in the German first handbaw-diveesion (Handball-Bundesliga).

## Twin touns
* Foggia, Italy
* Klosterneuburg, Austrick
* Pessac, Fraunce, since 2000
* Sonneberg, Germany

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial wabsteid
Donzdorf

**Donzdorf** is a toun in the destrict o Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in soothren Germany.

It is locatit 12&nbsp;km east o Göppingen, an 13&nbsp;km sooth o Schwäbisch Gmünd. It is maist notable kent for being hame tae ane o the biggest hivy metal record companies, Nuclear Blast Records.

## References
Pennsylvanish

**Pennsylvanish** (*Pensylvanish: Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch;* cried **Pennsylvanie German** or **Pennsylvanie Dutch** an aw) is a byleid o Wast Central German relatit tae the Palatine byleids, spakken by the Auld Order Amish, Auld Order Mennonites an ither fowk o German forebeirs in the Unitit States an Canadae. Hit is said that thare are aroond 300,000 fowk that spik hit as thair mither leid.

Hit wis tradeetionally a byleid o the Pennsylvanie Dutch fowk, descendants o late 17t an early 18t yeirhunner incomers tae Pennsylvanie, Maryland, Virginie, Wast Virginie, an North Carolina fae soothren Germany, eastren Fraunce, an Swisserland.

Spikkers o the byleid the dey maistly live in Pennsylvanie, Ohio, Indiana, an ither Midwastren states o the Unitit States, an in Ontario in Canadae forby. Historically, the byleid wis spakken in mony ither auries whaur uissage o the byleid haes lawered.

## References
Geislingen an der Steige

**Geislingen an der Steige** is a toun in the destrict o Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

## History
Although the aurie haed settlements syne the Bronze Age, Geislingen wis foondit bi the coonts o Helfenstein as a transit collection station on the important commercial route atween the Rhine valley an the Mediterranean.  The fortifee'd Helfenstein castle existit syne 1100.  *Giselingen* wis first mentioned as *civitas* in a document datit 1237.  Frae 1396 through 1802, Geislingen wis awned bi the free an imperial ceety o Ulm on the Danube.  In 1803 Ulm an Geislingen became pairt o Bavarie, but in a land exchynge wur incorporatit intae the Kinrick o Württemberg in 1810.

Industrialization stairtit wi the arrival o the railwey an the construction o the railwey “Steige” (1847-1850), a steep incline o rail an road tae the plateau o the Schwäbische Alb (Swabian Jura).  The leadin industrial enterprise is the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) foondit in 1852, a warld renouned manufacturer o guids for kitchen an table.

## Main sichts
*Ostlandkreuz
*Ruine Helfenstein

## Pairtnership
Geislingen is twin touns o:
*Bischofswerda, Saxony
*Montceau-les-Mines, Fraunce

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial wabpage
Sankt Pölten

**Sankt Pölten** (*St. Pölten*) is the caipital ceety of the Austrian State o Lawer Austrick. Wi 51,073 inhabitants (coontit 2005) it is Lawer Austrick's lairgest ceety. Sankt Pölten is a ceety wi its awn statute (or *[[Statutarstadt]]*) an therefore it is baith a municipality an a destrict in the *[[Mostviertel]]*.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Sankt Pölten is twinned wi the follaein ceeties:
* Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
* Brno, Czech Republic 
* Clichy, Fraunce
* Heidenheim, Germany
* Kurashiki, Japan
* Nyíregyháza, Hungary
* Wuhan, Cheenae

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial steid (in Inglis) 
*Offeecial steid o BG/BRG St.Pölten
*Drunter & Drüber
Trier

**Trier**, historically cried in Inglis **Treves**; ; ; ; the Laitin adjective associated wi the ceety is *Treverensis*) is a ceety in Germany on the banks o the Moselle. It is the auldest ceety in Germany, foondit in or afore 16 BC.

Trier lies in a valley atween law vine-covered hills o ruddy saundstane in the wast o the state o Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border wi Luxembourg an athin the important Mosel wine region.

Wi an approximate population o 100,000 Trier is the fowert mucklest ceety in the state o Rhineland-Paltinate efter Mainz, Ludwigshafen, an Koblenz. The nearest muckle ceeties in Germany are Saarbrücken, some 80&nbsp;km sootheast, an Koblenz, aboot 100&nbsp;km northeast. The closest ceety tae Trier is the ceety o Luxembourg, some 50&nbsp;km tae the soothwast.

## International relations
Trier is a fellae member o the QuattroPole union o ceeties, alang wi Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, an Metz (neighbourin kintras: Luxembourg an France).

### Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Trier is twinned wi:

## Namesakes
* New Trier Tounship, USA. oreeginally settled bi fowk frae Trier.
* New Trier, USA settled bi fowk frae Trier aboot 1856.

## References
Braunschweig

**Braunschweig** (; Low German: *Brunswiek* ; ), is a city o 247,400 fowk, locatit in the federal-state o Lawer Saxony, Germany. It is locatit north o the Harz muntains at the farthest navigable point o the Oker river, that connects tae the North Sea throu the rivers Aller an Weser.

The offices o the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (BFU) are locatit in Braunschweig.

## Internaitional relations

Braunschweig haes aicht sister ceeties:
* Bandung, Indonesie (syne 1960)
* Nîmes, Fraunce (syne 1962)
* Bath,  Ingland, Unitit Kinrick (syne 1971)
* Sousse, Tunisie (syne 1980)
* Kiryat Tivon, Israel (syne 1985/1986)
* Magdeburg, Germany (syne 1987)
* Kazan, Roushie (syne 1988)
* Omaha, Nebraska, Unitit States (syne 1992)

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Offeicial wabsteid  
*Braunschweig – 360° Panoramas
*International School Braunschweig-Wolfsburg 
*Daily newspaper Braunschweiger Zeitung
*
Eisenerz

**Eisenerz** ("Airn ure") is a mercat place an auld minin toun in Styrie, Austrick, 68&nbsp;mi (109&nbsp;km). N.W. o Graz bi rail. Pop. (2001) 6,400. It is situatit in the deep Erzbach Valley, dominatit on the east bi the Pfaffenstein (6140&nbsp;ft), on the wast bi the Kaiserschild (6830&nbsp;ft), an on the sooth bi the Erzberg (5030&nbsp;ft). It haes an interestin ensaumple o a medieval fortifeed kirk, a Gothic edifice foondit bi Rudolph o Habsburg in the 13t century an rebuilt in the 16t.

## History
At the turn o the past century the *Erzberg* (Ore Muntain) furnished sic rich ore that it wis quarried in the open air lik stane, in the simmer months. Thare is documentary evidence o the mines haein been wirked as far back as the 12t century. Thay affordit employment tae twa or three thoosan haunds in simmer an aboot hauf as mony in winter, an yieldit some 800,000 tons o iron per annum.

Durin World War II, a subcamp o Mauthausen concentration camp wis locatit here. It providit slave labour for local industry. Eisenerz wis connectit wi the mines bi the Erzberg railwey, a bauld piece o ingineerin wirk, fowerteen miles (21&nbsp;km) lang, constructit on the Abt's rack-an-pinion seestem. It passed throu some bonnie scenery, an descends tae Vordernberg, an important centre o the iron tred situatit on the sooth side o the Erzberg. Eisenerz possesses, in addition, twinty-five furnaces, which produce iron, an pairticularly steel, o exceptional excellence. The day the Erzberg is hame tae motocross races.

A few miles tae the N.W. o Eisenerz lies the castle o Leopoldstein, an near it the bonnie Leopoldsteiner Lake. This lake, wi its daurk-green watter, situatit at an altitude o 2028&nbsp;ft., an surroondit on aw sides bi heich peaks, is no big an haes a depth o 100&nbsp;ft (30 m).

## Economy
The independent record label Napalm Records is based in this toun.

## Demographic evolution
* 1928  6.945
* 1939  12.395
* 1944  18.419
* 1948  11.103
* 1956  12.679
* 1992  7.965
* 2000  6.750
* 2005  5.839
* 2007  5.566

## References

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Sardinie

**Sardinie** (, ) is the seicont-lairgest island in the Mediterranean Sea (efter Sicily an afore Cyprus). It is an autonomous region o Italy, an the nearest land masses are (clockwise frae north) the French island o Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisie an the Spaingie Balearic Islands.

The name Sardinie is frae the pre-Roman noun *sard*, romanised as **sardus** (feminine **sarda**); that the name haed a releegious connotation is suggestit frae its uise an aa as the adjective for the auncient Sardinie meethological hero-god Sardus Pater "Sardinie Faither" (misunnerstuid bi mony modren Sardinies/Italians as being "Faither Sardus"), as well as being the stem o the adjective "sardonic". Sardinie wis cawed *Ichnusa* (the Laitinised form o the Greek *Hyknousa*), *Sandalion*, *Sardinia* an *Sardo* bi the auncient Greeks an the Romans.
Campagnano di Roma

**Campagnano di Roma** is a *[[comune]]* (municipality) in the Province o Roum in the Italian region o Lazio, locatit aboot 30&nbsp;km northwast o Roum. It wis first mentioned in 1076, haein been carved oot o the great estate assembled on the Roman pattern bi Pape Adrian I, ca. 780, his *[[Domusculta]] Capracorum*.

Campagnano di Roma borders the follaein municipalities: Anguillara Sabazia, Formello, Magliano Romano, Mazzano Romano, Nepi, Roum, Sacrofano, Trevignano Romano.

The Airchaeological Pairk o Veii is nearbi.

It is the location o the ACI Vallelunga Circuit.

## Notes

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial wabsteid
Province o Roum

The **Province o Roum** () wis ane o the five provinces o Lazio, Italy. The province o Roum wis the maist populous o Italy, an is essentially coterminous wi the Roum metropolitan aurie. Roum wis the provincial caipital. The Province o Roum existit frae 1870 tae 31 Dizember 2014. On 1 Januar 2015, it wis replacit wi a new admeenistrative aurie, the Metropolitan Ceety o Roum Caipital.

## Geografie
The Province o Roum covers amaist ane-third o the territory o Lazio. It occupees the flat aurie o the Roman an the Tiber Valley tae the muntains an dell'Aniene Lucretili Sabini an, in addition tae the muntainous regions o the Tolfa an Monti Sabatini tae the north-wast, the aurie o the muntains Tiburtini Prenestini Simbruini an east, the aurie o the Colli Albani an the northren fuithills o the muntains, an heich Lepine Sacco valley tae the sooth-east. The wastren bundary o the province is representit bi the Tyrrhenian Sea on which spread tae aboot 130&nbsp;km frae the coast near Roum frae Civitavecchia tae Torre Asturias. In the territory thare are several lochs, amaist aw o volcanic oreegin, which are concentratit in the north-wast o the muntains an Sabatini in the sooth-east o the Colli Albani.

## Population
The main *comuni* bi population are:

## Politics
The Province o Roum is govrened bi *Roum's Provincial Cooncil*, which is componed bi 45 members.
The Preses o the province o Roum is electit bi the fowk syn 1993 ivery 5 year an is assistit bi an executive body, the Provincial Executive.

Preses an memmers o Council are electit thegither bi resident ceetizens: the coalition o the electit Preses (who needs an absolute majority in the first or seicont roond o votin) gains the three fifths o the Council's seats.

The incumbement preses is Nicola Zingaretti (PD), electit on 27-28 Aprile 2008 wi the 51% o the votes on the seicont roond.

The current Provincial Cooncil haes been electit on 13-14 Aprile 2008 an the distribution o seats is this: 

## Gallery

## References


## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial wabsteid
Emilia-Romagna

**Emilia–Romagna** (, Romagnol: *Emélia–Rumâgna*) is an admeenistrative region o Northren Italy comprisin the twa historic regions o Emilia an Romagna.

Emilia–Romagna the day is considered as ane o the richest an maist developed regions in Europe an haes the third heichest GDP per caipita in Italy. Bologna, the region's caipital, haes ane o Italy's heichest quality o life, an haes heichlie advanced an modren social services. Emilia–Romagna is an aa a major cultural an touristic centre, bein the hame o the auldest university in the Wastren Warld, containin numerous Renaissance ceeties (sic as Modena, Parma an Ferrara), bein a major centre for fuid an automobile production (Emilia–Romagna is hame o numerous iconic gastronomical an automotive industries, sic as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati an Ducati) an haein a lively an colourful coastline, wi numerous tourist resorts, sic as Rimini an Riccione.

## Admeenistrative diveesions
Emilia–Romagna is dividit intae nine provinces:

## References
Province o Milan

The **Province o Milan** (; Wastren Lombard (non-offeecial): /) wis a province in the Lombardy region o Italy. Its caipital wis the ceety o Milan. The provincial territory is heichlie urbanized, resultin in the third heichest population density amang the Italian provinces wi mair nor 2,000 inhabitants/km2, juist ahint the provinces o Province o Naples an the borderin Monza e Brianza, creatit in 2004 splittin the eastren pairt frae the province o Milan itsel. On 1 Januar 2015 it wis replacit bi the Metropolitan Ceety o Milan.

## Lairgest municipalities bi population
*Milan: 1.308.975
*Sesto San Giovanni: 81.032
*Cinisello Balsamo: 73.858
*Legnano: 58.254
*Rho: 50.584
*Cologno Monzese: 47.600
*Paderno Dugnano: 47.525
*Rozzano: 41.056
*Bollate: 36.537
*San Giuliano Milanese: 36.431
*Pioltello: 35.675
*Corsico: 34.058
*Segrate: 34.007
*San Donato Milanese: 32.563
*Abbiategrasso: 31.675
*Cernusco sul Naviglio: 30.689
*Garbagnate Milanese: 26.875
*Buccinasco: 26.700
*Parabiago: 26.638
*Bresso: 26.230
*Lainate: 25.208
*Cesano Boscone: 23.831
*Magenta: 23.510
*Peschiera Borromeo: 22.701
*Senago: 21.137
*Cornaredo: 20.461
*Novate Milanese: 20.186
*Cormano: 20.116
*Cusano Milanino: 19.468
*Arese: 19.451
*Gorgonzola: 19.384
*Settimo Milanese: 19.271
*Trezzano sul Naviglio: 19.136
*Cassano d'Adda: 18.703
*Melzo: 18.398
*Nerviano: 17.424
*Bareggio: 17.226
*Melegnano: 17.104
*Corbetta: 16.955
*Vimodrone: 16.304
*Pieve Emanuele: 15.158
*Cerro Maggiore: 14.709
*Carugate: 14.400
*Solaro: 14.064
*Rescaldina: 13.989
*Cesate: 13.726
*Opera: 13.710
*Busto Garolfo: 13.355
*Cassina de' Pecchi: 13.040
*Canegrate: 12.393
*Trezzo sull'Adda: 12.287
*Mediglia: 12.082
*Baranzate: 11.494
*Arluno: 11.446
*Sedriano: 11.182
*Paullo: 10.985
*Castano Primo: 10.938
*Pero: 10.683
*Inzago: 10.328

## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial wabsteid
Arconate

**Arconate** is a *[[comune]]* (municipality) in the Province o Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, locatit aboot 25&nbsp;km northwast o Milan. As o 31 December 2004, it haed a population o 5,871 an an aurie o 8.3&nbsp;km².

Arconate borders the follaein municipalities: Dairago, Buscate, Busto Garolfo, Inveruno, Cuggiono.

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## References

## Freemit airtins
* www.comune.arconate.mi.it/
Bologna

**Bologna** is the caipital ceety o baith the province o Bologna an the region o Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley o Northren Italy.  The ceety lies atween the Po River an the Apennine Muntains, mair specifically, atween the Reno River an the Savena River.
It is the seivent lairgest ceety in Italy in terms o population an it is the hert o a metropolitan aurie (offeecially recognizit bi the Italian govrenment as a metropolitan ceety) o aboot 1,000,000 inhabitants.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns – sister ceeties
Bologna is twinned wi:

## References
Province o Bologna

The **Province o Bologna** () wis a province in the Emilia-Romagna region o Italy. Its caipital wis the ceety o Bologna.

## Geografie
It haed an aurie o 3,702 km², an a total population o 991,647 (2010). There wur 60 *[[comuni]]* (singluar: *[[comune]]*) in the provincehttp://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6 , see Comuni o the Province o Bologna. As o November 30, 2010, the main *comuni* bi population are:


## Freemit airtins
* Provincia di Bologna hamepage (in Italian)
* Bologna auld Picture
Ylöjärvi

**Ylöjärvi** () is a toun an a municipality in the Finnish region o Pirkanmaa locatit 14 kilometre (9&nbsp;mi) wast o Tampere.

The toun haes a population o 30,500 (31 Januar 2011) an covers an aurie o 1,324.09 square kilometres (511.23 sq mi) o which 208.62 km2 (80.55 sq mi) is water. The population density is 27.34 inhabitants per square kilometre (70.8 /sq mi). The population haes increased rapidly in recent years, in 1990 it wis slichtly ower 18,000.

Ylöjärvi wis foondit as a municipality in 1869. Stairtin Januar 1, 2004 it is kent as a toun.

The municipality o Viljakkala wis consolidatit wi Ylöjärvi on Januar 1, 2007. The municipality o Kuru wis consolidatit wi Ylöjärvi on Januar 1, 2009.

## Tree Muntain
The toun is the location o *Tree Muntain*, Land airt b Agnes Denes.  This wirk wis conceived in 1983, an construction wis annoonced bi the Finnish govrenment at the 1992 Earth Summit.  Construction wis complete in 1996, an the steid is legally protectit for the next 400 year.
Tree Mountain wis dedicatit in June, 1996, bi the Preses o Finland, Martti Ahtisaari.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Toun o Ylöjärvi  – Offeecial wabsteid
Hämeenkyrö

**Hämeenkyrö** () is a municipality o Finland.

It is locatit in the defunct province o Wastren Finland an is pairt o the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality haes a population o 10,503 (31 January 2011) an covers an aurie o 505.10 square kilometres (195.02 sq mi) o which 41.34 km2 (15.96 sq mi) is water. The population density is 22.65 inhabitants per square kilometre (58.7 /sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää, a famous Finnish writer an a Nobel Laureate in Literatur, wis born in Hämeenkyrö.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Municipality o Hämeenkyrö  – Offeecial wabsteid 
*Arteles International Artist in Residency Program
Mariehamn

**Mariehamn** () is the caipital o the Åland Islands, an autonomous territory unner Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat o the Govrenment an Parliament o Åland, an 40% o the population o Åland live in the ceety. Like aw o Åland, Mariehamn is unilingually Swadish-speakin an aroond 88% o the inhabitants speak it as their native leid.

## History
The toun wis named efter Maria Alexandrovna, the Empress consort o Alexander II o Roushie. Mariehamn wis foondit in 1861, aroond the veelage o Övernäs, in wha wis at the time pairt o the municipality o Jomala. The ceety haes syne expandit an incorporatit mair o Jomala territory. The ceety is locatit on a peninsula, an haes twa important harbours, ane locatit on the wastren shore an ane on the eastren shore. The Wastren Harbour is an important internaitional harbour wi daily traffic tae Swaden an mainland Finland. A pouerful incentive for Baltic ferries tae stop at Mariehamn is that, wi respect tae indirect taxation, Åland is no pairt o the EU customs zone an so duty-free guids can be sauld aboard. Mariehamn Airport is locatit in the neighbourin municipality o Jomala, some 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-wast o Mariehamn ceety centre.

Åland an Mariehamn hae a reputable heritage in shippin. The Flying P-Liner Pommern museum ship is anchored in the Wastren Harbour. The Eastren Harbour features ane o the lairgest marinas in Scandinavie. The famous Dutch steamer Jan Nieveen (nou cried F.P. von Knorring, efter Åland teacher an vicar Frans Peter von Knorring) can an aa be foond here.

The ceety is an important centre for Åland media; baith o the local newspapers (Ålandstidningen an Nya Åland), several radio stations an the local TV channels (TV Åland an Åland24) operate oot o the ceety.

Mariehamn features several biggins drawn bi Finnish airchitect Lars Sonck, who muivit tae Åland as a child. Biggins drawn bi him include the kirk o Mariehamn (1927), the main biggin o the Åland Maritime College (1927) an the toun haw (1939). Hilda Hongell haes an aa designed several biggins, although anerlie a few are still staundin.

## Demographics

A chairt on population growth.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Mariehamn is twinned wi:
* Kópavogur, Iceland
* Kragerø, Norawa
* Kuressaare, Estonie
* Lomonosov, Roushie
* Slagelse, Denmark
* Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
* Valkeakoski, Finland
* Visby, Swaden

## Economy
Air Åland haes its heid office on the grunds o Mariehamn Airport in Mariehamn.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Offeecial wabsteid 
* Offeecial Tourist Gateway o Mariehamn - Maarianhamina
* 
* Map o Mariehamn
* Mariehamn. Tourist route
Kópavogur

**Kópavogur** () is Iceland's seicont lairgest municipality, wi a population o 30,180. It lies immediately sooth o Reykjavík an is pairt o the Greater Reykjavík aurie. The name leeterally means *seal pup bay*. The toun seal contains the profile o the kirk Kópavogskirkja wi a seal pup unnerneath.

Kópavogur is lairgely made up o residential auries, but haes commercial auries an a lot o industrial activity as well. Kópavogur's main sports clubs are Gerpla, Breiðablik UBK an HK. The tawest biggin in Iceland, the Smáratorg tower, is locatit in dountoun Kópavogur.

## History
Kópavogur is historically significant as the steid o the 1662 Kópavogur meetin. This event merked the tot incorporation o Iceland intae Denmark-Norawa as bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson an *lawyer* Árni Oddsson on behauf o the Icelandic fowk signed a document confirmin that the introduction o absolute monarchy bi the Keeng an aa appleed tae Iceland. An independent tounship, Kópavogur is adjacent tae Reykjavík.

The modren dome o Kópavogur Kirk–the toun’s emblem–dominates the skyline tae the sooth o Reykjavík. On the same hilltop is Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Airt Museum, an elegant, spacious museum biggit in 1985 tae show the wirks o modren sculptur pioneer an gless airtist Gerður Helgadóttir, who made the stained gless windaes for the kirk. Anither collection in the museum features wirks bi painter/sculptor Magnús Árnason an his Inglis-born wife Barbara, an illustrator an graphics airtist. Selectit exhibitions frae thir collections are arranged at intervals, but the museum’s main activity is exhibitions bi modren Icelandic airtists, held approximately ivery month. An aa on the hilltop steid is the new complex Kópavogur Cultural Centre. It hooses amang ither things Iceland‘s first an anerlie custom biggit concert haw, Salurinn, Kópavogur Concert Hall, which opened in 1999. Regular concerts an recitals are held at the centre, featurin baith celebratit Icelandic performers an visitin internaitional muisickers.

Ane o Iceland‘s finest collections o molluscs an crustaceans are on display at the naitural Science Centre in Kópavogur‘s toun centre. The Cultural Centre an aa hooses impressive collections o rocks an birds, an haes fower tanks wi live fish an marine life.

Athletic facilities are amangst the best in the kintray. A new open-air geothermally heatit soummin puil, the lairgest in Iceland, is amang the mony excellent sports an leisur facilities in Kópavogur, which an aa can boast o the biggest indoor tennis court in the kintra.

In the hert o Kópavogur a massive shoppin aurie haes been developed aroond Smaralind, the lairgest shoppin maw in Iceland.

## Economy
Air Atlanta Icelandic haes its heid office in Kópavogur.

## Notable fowk
The sangster Emilíana Torrini is frae Kópavogur.

The 2011 Reebok CrossFit Gemmes Weemen's Champion Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir is frae Kópavogur.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Kópavogur is twinned wi:

## See&nbsp;an aw

* Iceland
* Smáralind
* Menntaskólinn í Kópavogi
* Breiðablik

## References
;Notes

## Freemit airtins

*Kópavogur's official webpage (in Icelandic)
*Picture gallery from www.islandsmyndir.is
Virrat

**Virrat** () is a toun an municipality o Finland.

It is pairt o the Pirkanmaa region. The toun haes a population o 7,498 (31 Januar 2011) an covers an aurie o 1,299.07 square kilometres (501.57 sq mi) o
which 136.73 km2 (52.79 sq mi) is water. The population density is
6.45 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.7 /sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Virrat crater on Mars is named efter it.

Major lakes in the aurie are Toisvesi, bi which the toun o Virrat is locatit, an Tarjanne at the border o the municipalities o Virrat, Mänttä-Vilppula an Ruovesi.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Town of Virrat – Offeecial steid
Olomouc

**Olomouc**; local Haná dialect *Olomóc* or *Holomóc*, German *Olmütz* or *Ollmütz*, Pols *Ołomuniec*, Laitin *Eburum* or *Olomucium*) is a ceety in Moravie, in the east o the Czech Republic. The ceety is locatit on the Morava river an is the ecclesiastical metropolis o Moravie.

## Mayors

* 1851–1865 Franz Kreilm
* 1865–1866 Franz Hein
* 1866–1872 Dr. Karl Borom. Johann Nep. Alois Schrötter
* 1872–1896 Josef von Engel
* 1896–1918 Karl Brandhuber
* 1918–1919 Vládní Komisař
* 1919–1923 Dr. Karel Mareš
* 1923–1939 Dr. Richard Fischer
* 1939–1941 Dr. Fritz Czermak
* 1942–1945 Dr. Julius Schreitter
* 1945–1947 Václav Stibor-Kladenský
* 1947–1949 Jan Kučera
* 1949–1950 Ladislav Bernatský
* 1950–1956 Antonín Eliáš
* 1957–1960 Josef Drmola
* 1960–1970 František Řeháček
* 1970–1986 Dr. Jan Tencian
* 1986–1989 Ing. Josef Votoček
* 1989–1990 Břetislav Baran
* 1990–1994 Milan Hořínek PhD
* 1994–1998 RNDr. Ivan Kosatík
* 1998–2006 Ing. Martin Tesařík
* 2006–  Martin Novotný

## Sport

* SK Sigma Olomouc – fitbaa club
* HC Olomouc – hockey club
* Skokani Olomouc – basebaw club
* 1. HFK Olomouc – fitbaa club
* DHK Olomouc – weemen's handbaw club
* AK Olomouc – athletics club
* RC Olomouc – rugby club

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Olomouc is twinned wi:

## References
Roxburgh

**Roxburgh** (or **Rosbroch**; Scots Gaelic: *Rosbrog*) is a nou-destroyed ryal burgh. It wis an important tradin burgh in Heich Medieval tae early modren Scotland. In the Middle Ages it haed at least as hintle importance as Edinburgh, Stirlin, Perth, or Barwick, for a time actin as *de facto* caipital (as ryal residence o David I).

## History
Its significance lay in its position in the centre o some o Lawland Scotland's maist agriculturally fertile auries, an its position upon the River Tweed, which alloued river transport o guids via the main seaport o Barwick. Its position an aa actit as a barrier tae Inglis invasion.

The toun stood on a defensible peninsula atween the rivers Tweed an Teviot, wi Roxburgh Castle guardin the narrae neck o the peninsula. Nothing remains o the toun except some ruined segments o castle ramparts. Its steid lees tae the sooth o modren Kelsae an Floors Castle, which lie on the ither side o the Tweed. The Duke o Roxburghe awns the steid.

Inglis an Scots forces repeatedly captured an recaptured the toun durin the Scots Wars o Unthirldom. Its feenal recaptur in 1460 saw the toun an castle destroyed. Efter this time the toun niver regained its importance acause the feenal Inglis captur o Barwick in 1482 left Roxburgh wi little reason tae exist.

Roxburgh wis supersedit as the coonty toun o the umwhile coonty o Roxburghshire bi Jedburgh.

## Etymology
Roxburgh probably comes frae Auld Inglis **hrōcas burh*, "rook's borough".

## Roxburgh Destrict

**Roxburgh Destrict** 1975&ndash;96


In mari recent times (1975&ndash;1996), "Roxburgh" referred tae a local govrenment destrict in the Borders region o Scotland. Its borders broadly resembled those o the traditional coonty o Roxburghshire. In 1996 the destrict o Roxburgh became pairt o the Scots Borders unitary aurie. (See an aw: Subdiveesions o Scotland)

## Clachan o Roxburgh

Nouadays the name Roxburgh belangs tae a sma clachan aboot 2 mile (3.2 km) sooth-soothwast o the steid o the historic Roxburgh. It is aff the A699, bi the River Teviot, near Kelsae in the Mairches aurie o Scotland.

Ither places nearbi include Ednam, Heiton, Maxton, Morebattle, Smailholm, Sprouston an Stichill, 

The Borders Abbeys Way passes through the veelage.

## See an aa
*Leet o places in the Mairches
 

## References
### Notes

### Sources
*Sadler, John, *Border Fury - England and Scotland at War, 1296-1568*. Pearson/Longman 2005.
Syracuse, New York

**Syracuse** is a ceety in an the coonty seat o Onondaga Coonty, New York, Unitit States, the lairgest U.S. ceety wi the name "Syracuse", an the fift maist muckle ceety in the state. At the 2010 census, the ceety population wis 145,170, (makkin it the 170t lairgest ceety in the kintra) an its metropolitan aurie haed a population o 742,603. It is the economic an educational hub o Central New York, a region wi ower a million indwallers. Syracuse is an aa well-providit wi convention steids, wi a dountoun convention complex an, directly wast o the ceety, the Empire Expo Center, which hosts the annual Great New York State Fair. The ceety derives its name frae Siracusa, a ceety on the eastren coast o the Italian island o Sicily.

The ceety haes functioned as a major crossroads ower the last twa centuries, first atween the Erie Canal an its branch canals, then o the railwey network. The day, Syracuse is locatit at the intersection o Interstates 81 an 90, an its airport is the lairgest in the region. Syracuse is hame tae Syracuse University, a major research varsity, as well as several smawer colleges an professional schuils. In 2010 Forbes ratit Syracuse 4t in the tap 10 places tae raise a faimily.

## Sister ceeties
Syracuse's sister ceeties are:
*  Chiayi Ceety, Taiwan
*  Fuzhou, Fujian, Cheenae
*  Taiz, Yemen
*  Tampere, Finland

## References
Mwanza

**Mwanza** is a mid-sized port ceety on the soothren shores o Lake Victoria in northwastren Tanzanie. Wi an urban population o 1.2 million an a metropolitan population o 2 million,  it is Tanzanie's seicont lairgest ceety, follaein Dar es Salaam an aheid o ither major Tanzanian ceeties o Arusha, Mbeya an Tanga. Mwanza is the caipital o the surroondin Mwanza Region.

## Twin touns
*  Tampere, Finland
*  Tifariti, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
*  Würzburg, Germany
Klaksvík

**Klaksvík** () is the seicont lairgest toun o the Faroe Islands.
The toun is locatit on Borðoy, which is ane o the northmaist islands (in Faroese: Norðoyar).

The first dounset at Klaksvík dates back tae Viking times, but it wis no afore the 20t century that the destrict merged tae form a lairge, modren Faroese toun that became the cultural an commercial centre for the Northren Isles an the Faroe Islands as a whole.

Klaksvik is locatit atween twa inlets lyin back tae back. It haes an important harbour wi fishin industry an a modren fishin fleet. Oreeginally, fower ferms wur locatit whaur Klaksvik is nou. In time, thay grew intae fower veelages, Vágur, Myrkjanoyri, Gerðar an Uppsalar, that feenally merged tae form the toun o Klaksvík in 1938. Wha triggered the development o the toun wis the establishment o a centralized store for aw the northren islands on the location.

The brewery Föroya Bjór in Klaksvík is a Faroese faimily brewery, foondit in 1888. The ram haes been the seembol o the brewery syne the early beginnin. Syne August 2007, when      Restorffs Bryggjarí went oot o business, Föroya Bjór haes been the anerlie producer o beer an saft drinks in the Faroe Islands.

Wi the openin o the Leirvík sub sea tunnel, the Norðoyatunnilin in Apryle 2006,  Klaksvík is pheesically linked wi the mainland o the Faroe Islands an can nou be considered ane o its key ports. Several developments are unner wey tae exploit this seembiosis, includin a new industrial pairk locatit bi the tunnel entrance. Klaksvík is hame tae Summarfestivalurin, the lairgest muisic festival in the Faroe Islands.

## The Christianskirk
*Christianskirkjan* biggit 1963, is the first ane in Scandinavie tae be biggit in Auld Norse style. The ruif construction is the same as the ane you wad fynd in the Viking haws, an the same which haes survived in the Faroese smoke rooms (kitchens) an in the Faroese veelage kirks. This open ruif construction haes pruivit tae be especially suitable for kirk biggins, as the acoustics in this kirk is better nor in ony ither o a seemilar size. The kirk is dedicatit tae the memory o the sailors who lost thair life durin Seicont Warld War.

## Twin touns
*  - **[[Murmansk]]**, Roushie
*  - **[[Week, Hieland|Week]]**, Scotland
*  - **[[Sisimiut]]**, Greenland
*  - **[[Kópavogur]]**, Iceland
*  - **[[Trondheim]]**, Norawa
*  - **[[Norrköping]]**, Sverige
*  - **[[Tampere]]**, Finland
*  - **[[Grenaa]]**, Denmark
*  - **[[Odense]]**, Denmark
Miskolc

**Miskolc** (, ) is a ceety in northeastren Hungary, mainly wi hivy industrial backgrund. Wi a population close tae 170,000 (2010), Miskolc is the fowert lairgest ceety o Hungary (ahint Budapest, Debrecen an Szeged; seicont-lairgest wi agglomeration.) It is an aa the caipital o Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Coonty an the regional centre o Northren Hungary.

## Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Miskolc is twinned wi:

*  Aschaffenburg, Germany
*  Białystok, Poland
*  Burgas, Bulgarie
*  Cleveland, USA
*  Katowice, Poland
*  Košice, Slovakie, syne 1997
*  Ostrava, Czech Republic
*  Tampere, Finland
*  Valenciennes, Fraunce
*  Vologda, Roushie

## References
Urjala

**Urjala** is a municipality o Finland.

It is locatit in the province o Wastren Finland an is pairt o the Pirkanmaa region, near Forssa. The municipality haes a population o  () an covers an aurie o  of which  is watter. The population densitie is .

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Municipality o Urjala  – Offeecial wabsteid
Linz

**Linz** is the third-lairgest ceety o Austrick an caipital o the state o Upper Austrick (). It is locatit in the north centre o Austrick, approximately 30 km (19 mi) sooth o the Czech border, on baith sides of the river Danube. The population o the ceety is 189,367, an that o the Greater Linz conurbation is aboot 271,000.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Linz is twinned wi:

*  Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, syne 1995
*  České Budějovice, Czech Republic, synce 1987
*  Chengdu, Cheenae, syne 1983
*  Gabès, Tunisie, syne 1977
*  Halle, Germany, syne 1975
*  Sumqayit, Azerbaijan

*  Kansas Ceety, Kansas, Unitit States, syne 1988
*  Gwangyang, Sooth Korea, since 1991
*  Linköping, Swaden, syne 1995
*  Linz am Rhein, Germany, syne 1987
*  Modena, Italy, syne 1992
*  Albufeira, Portugal

*  Nizhny Novgorod, Roushie, syne 1993
*  Norrköping, Swaden, syne 1995
*  San Carlos, Nicaragua, syne 1988
*  Zaporizhia, Ukraine, syne 1983
*  Tampere, Finland, syne 1995
*  Dunaújváros, Hungary, syne 1992

## Notes
Braşov

**Brașov** (; ; , Hungarian pronunciation: ; Medieval Laitin: *Brassovia* or *Corona*; 1950–1960: *Orașul Stalin*) is a ceety in Romanie an the caipital o Brașov Coonty.

Accordin tae the last Romanian census, frae 2002, there wur 284,596 fowk livin athin the ceety o Brașov, makin it the 8t maist populatit ceety in Romaniee.

Brașov is locatit in the central pairt o the kintra, aboot 166&nbsp;km north o Bucharest. It is surroondit bi the Soothren Carpathians an is pairt o the Transylvanie region.

The ceety is notable for being the birthplace o the naitional anthem o Romanie an for hostin the Golden Stag International Music Festival.

## Twin ceeties

*  Tampere, Finland
*  Tours, Fraunce
*  Győr, Hungary
*  Rishon LeZion, Israel
*  Holstebro, Denmark
*  Musashino, Japan
*  Ghent, Belgium
*  Leeds, Unitit Kinrick
*  Minsk, Belaroushie
*  Trikala, Greece

## References
Vlad the Impaler

**Vlad III, Prince o Wallachie** (1431 – 1476), mair commonly kent as **Vlad the Impaler** (Romanian: **Vlad Ţepeș**  or simply as **Dracula**, wis a three-time Voivode o Wallachie, rulin mainly frae 1456 tae 1462.

Historically, Vlad is best kent for his resistance against the Ottoman Empire an its expansion an for the cruel punishments he imposed on his enemies.

Vlad III is believed tae hae inspired the association o his name tae that o the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel *[[Dracula]]*.

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Kangasala

**Kangasala** is a municipality in Finland, next to Tampere. It wis foondit in 1865. The municipality haes a population o 29,738 (31 Januar 2011) an covers an aurie o 870.85 square kilometres (336.24 sq mi) o which 212.83 km2 (82.17 sq mi) is water. The population density is 45.19 inhabitants per square kilometre (117.0 /sq mi).

It is famous for its natural beauty, as depictit bi Zacharias Topelius in his poem *Kesäpäivä Kangasalla* (made intae a sang bi Gabriel Linsén). It is an aa kent for its mansions, such as Liuksiala whaur Swadish queen Karin Månsdotter lived, an Wääksy. Kangasala haes a lang history o tourism. 

The lakes Roine, Längelmävesi an Vesijärvi are locatit in Kangasala. O these the twa first are mentioned in the famous poem, an Vesijärvi is the lake bi which the scenic owerlook described in the leerics is situatit.

The municipality o Sahalahti wis consolidatit tae Kangasala on 1 Januar 2005, an the municipality o Kuhmalahti on 1 Januar 2011.

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## Freemit airtins

* Municipality o Kangasala  – Offeecial wabsteid
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