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Zarzis

**Zarzis** () is a coastal toun in sootheastren Tunisie, on the coast o Mediterranean Sea. The climate is mainly dry an sunny, makin it a popular tourist destination mixin the auld and the traditional. It haes a major port whaur a pairk o economic activities  is based.
In fact this vera port is o major importance an played a vera crucial role throughoot the history o Zarzis, tae the Phoenican, Romans an Arabs the port wis o strategic importance.

The local economy is diverse—agricultur, mainly olives, oil an tourism.

## Fremmit airtins
Warne, North Carolina

**Warne** is an unincorporated toun in Clay Coonty, Nor' Carolina, United States.
## References

## External links
* Warne Comoonty Centre 
* Clay County Chaumer o Commerce 
* The Clay Coonty Forder, Warne's local Wittins blad
* West Nor' Carolina Traivel Guide
* History o Clay Coonty 
* Aerial Pictur o Warne
François Villon

**François Villon** (1431-1463) wis a notable French poet.

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## Life
...

## Warks
* *Le Lais* (1457)
* *Le Testament* (1461)
* *Ballade des pendus* (1462)
...

## Ye can aye see tae

## Fremmit Airtins
* « François Villon, sa vie et son œuvre »
Al Jabal al Akhdar Destrict

**Al Jabal al Akhdar** ( **, ), cried *Jebel el-Akhdar* an aa, is ane o the destricts o Libie.  It lies in the north east o the kintra. The caipital is Al Bayda.

In its territory, close tae the ceety o Shahhat, can be foond the remains o the auld Greek colony o Cyrene, an the neighbourin ceety o Apollonia, a major port in the Mediterranean Sea in Antiquity.

In its soothren pairt is the fertile upland aurie o Jebel Akhdar. North o this is a dry, sub-desert aurie atween the uplands an the Mediterranean on its northren edge.  On land, it borders the follaein destricts:
*Darnah - east
*Al Wahat - sooth
*Al Marj - wast

## Touns an veelages

Ahqaf al Jabbarat, Ahqaf al Jabhiyah, Ahqaf ar Ruzat, Al Bayda, Al Fa'idiyah, Al Haniyah, As Safsaf, At Taban, Bi'r Bin Ghunaymah, Kaf Miyas, Khadra', Kuhuf Tuhudiyah, Mansurah, Marawah, Massah, Qandulah, Qaryat `Umar al Mukhtar, Qirnadah, Shahhat, Suluntah, Susah, `Umar al Mukhtar, Zawiyat al `Urqub

## References
Ghat Destrict

**Ghat** ( ) is ane o the destricts o Libie. Its caipital is Ghat.

Tae the wast, Ghat borders twa provinces o Algerie: Tamanghasset in the far soothwast, an Illizi Province itherwise.  It an aa haes a short border wi the Agadez Depairtment o Niger in the far sooth.  Domestically, it borders the follaein destricts:
*Wadi Al Shatii - north
*Wadi Al Hayaa - northeast
*Murzuq - east



## References
Wadi Al Shatii Destrict

**Wadi Al Shatii** ( *Wādī aš Šāṭi' *), sometimes referred tae as *Ash Shati* ( *Aš Šāṭi' *), is ane o the destricts o Libie in the central-wast pairt o the kintra. Its caipital is Brak.  The aurie is maistly desert.

Tae the wast, Wadi Ash Shatii borders the Illizi Province o Algerie.  Efter the 2007 admeenistrative reorganization o destricts, it borders on the follaein destricts:

*Nalut - northwast
*Al Jabal al Gharbi - north
*Al Jufrah - east
*Sabha - sootheast
*Wadi Al Hayaa - sooth
*Ghat - soothwast

Wadi Al Shatii District is named efter the depression (umwhile lakebed) o the same name, Wadi ash-Shati'. The depression extends east frae the toun o Umm al-'Abid tae the toun o Wanzarik on the wast, a distance o aboot 87 mile (140&nbsp;km).

## Economy

In 1943, vera lairge, but law grade, sedimentary iron-ore deposits wur discovered in the Wadi ash-Shatii Destrict near Brak.  Economically, it is anerlie suitable for strip minin. There are an aa potential economic manganese deposits in the same aurie.  The manganese occurs in lens or veinlets (up tae 23% Mg) in the sandstanes associatit wi the iron ore. Millet is the primary agricultural export frae the valley.

## Notes
Al Jfara Destrict

**Al Jfara**' ( *Al Ǧifāra*) is ane o the destricts o Libie, in the historical region o Tripolitanie. Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Al 'Aziziyah.

Al Jfara borders the follaein destricts:
*Tarabulus Destrict (Tripoli) - northeast
*Al Jabal al Gharbi - sooth
*Az Zawiyah - wast

Frae 2001 tae 2007, Al Jfara Destrict consistit o twinty Basic Fowkcongresses (BPCs). In 2007 it wis enlairged bi the addition o fower BPCs frae Tarabulus Destrict (Tripoli), an presently consists o twintie-fower Basic Fowkcongresses.

## References
Wadi Al Hayaa Destrict

**Wadi Al Hayaa** ( *Wādī al Ḥayāh*) is ane o the destricts o Libie. Its caipital is Awbari

## Touns in Wadi Al Hayaa

* Tikirkibh
* Ghuraifa
* Gurma
* Ibreek
* Ubari
* Toosh
* Bint Bayyah
* Rageebah
* Algaeerat
* Alfuqar
* Toyoh
* Garagah
* Al-Abyadh
* Al-Fajeej

## References
Murzuq Destrict

**Murzuq** ( *Murzuq*) is ane o the destricts o Libie.  It is in the sooth o the kintra.  Its caipital is Murzuk. The ceety wis occupee'd bi the Ottoman Empire in 1578 an served as the caipital o Fezzan aff an on till the Ottomans cedit Libie tae Italy in 1912.  It ws nae occupee'd bi the Italians till 1914.

## Borders
Tae the sootheast, Murzuq borders the Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region o Chad, an tae the southwest it borders the Agadez Depairtment o Niger. The mairch crossin tae Niger is at Tumu.  Domestically, it borders the follaein destricts:
*Ghat - wast
*Wadi Al Hayaa - northwast, wast o Sabha
*Sabha - northwast, east o Wadi Al Hayaa
*Al Jufrah - north
*Al Kufrah - east

The mairch atween Murzuq an Al Jufrah destricts wis modified efter 2007 admeenistrative reorganization o Libyan Destricts.

## Touns
Amang the touns in Murzuq Destrict are:
*Al Qatrun, an oasis an crossroads toun
*Al `Uwaynat (Sardalis), an oasis an crossroads toun
*Al Wigh, an oasis
*Murzuq, admeenistrative center
*Qawat, An oasis an crossroad toun
*Tajarhi, an oasis an crossroads toun

## References

## See an aa
*Murzuk Sand Sea
Al Wahat Destrict

**Al Wahat** ( *Al Wāḥāt*, ), occasionally spelt *Al Wahad* or *Al Wahah* () is ane o the destricts o Libie.  Its caipital an lairgest city is Ajdabiya.

## History
Traditionally Al Wahat wis the wastren pairt o Cyrenaica. Wi the diveesion o Libie intae ten govrenorates in 1963, Al Wahat became pairt o the Misrata Govrenorate. In the 1973 reorganization it became pairt o Al Khalji Govrenorate.  In 1983 Al Khalji wis dividit intae a number o baladiyat (destricts), wi wha is nou Al Wahat being includit in the Ajdabiya baladiyah an the Jalu baladiyah. In the 1988 reorganization, Jalu wis subsumit athin Ajdabiya baladiyah.

The status o this aurie in the reorganization o 1995 which creatit thirteen destricts (*[[Shabiyah|shabiyat]]*) is unclear; housomeivver, in the 1998 reorganization intae twinty-sax destricts, the name "Al-Wahad" appears as a destrict for the first time. In 2001 the aurie wis dividit atween Al Wahat Destrict an Ajdabiya Destrict.  In 2007 the umwhile Al Wahat destrict (aurie:108,670&nbsp;km2) wis enlairged tae include wha haed been the Ajdabiya District an pairt o Al Kufrah Destrict. It nou haes essentially the bundaries that the baladiyah (destrict) o Ajdabiya did frae 1988 tae 1995.

## Bundaries
Al Wahat haes a short border wi Egyp, an borders the follaein Libian destricts:
*Al Butnan - east an northeast
*Al Kufrah - sooth
*Al Jufrah, soothwast
*Surt - wast
*Benghazi - north
*Al Marj - north
*Al Jabal al Akhdar - north
*Darnah - north

## Touns
The follaein major touns are locatit athin Al Wahat Destrict, as o 2007:  Ajdabiya, Al Labbah, El Agheila, Jalu, an Sultan.

## References
Al Kufrah Destrict

**Al Kufrah** ( *Al Kufra*), an aa spelled *Cufra*, is the lairgest destrict o Libie. Its caipital is Al Jawf, ane o the oases in Kufra basin.  There is a vera lairge oil refinery near the caipital.
In the late 15t century, Leo Africanus reportit an oasis in the land o the *Berdoa*, visitit bi a caravan comin frae Awjila. It is possible that this oasis wis identical wi either the Al Jawf or the Taiserbo oasis, an on early modren maps, the Al Kufra region wis aften labelled as *Berdoa* based on this report.
The name *Kufra* itself is a derivation frae *[[kafir]]*, the Arabic term for non-Muslims.
Al Kufra did no faw unner the dominion o either the Arabs or the Ottomans an wis colonized bi Arabized Berber tribe o the Zuwayya anerlie in the mid 19t century, an eventually bi the Italians bi the 1930s.

Al Kufrah's location in Libie's sootheast places it on the kintra's border wi Egyp, Sudan (unlike ony ither Libian destrict), an Chad. It borders the follaein regions o these kintras:

*Al Wadi al Jadid Govrenorate, Egyp - east
*ash-Shamaliyah State, Sudan - sootheast
*Shamal Darfor State, Sudan - far sootheast
*Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region, Chad - south
Domestically, it borders the follaein destricts:

*Murzuq - wast
*Al Jufrah - northwast
*Al Wahat - north

Afore 2007, Al Kufrah Destrict wis lairger, includin a strip o desert in the north that haes been moved tae the Al Wahat Destrict.

## Oases
Besides the main Oasis group o the Kufra basin, fower mair oases belang tae the region, which lie northwast o Kufra basin: *[[Rabyanah|Rabyānah]]*, *[[Buzaymah]]*, *[[Wadi Zighen]]* and *[[Tazirbu|Tāzirbū]]*. The oasis-valleys o *[[Jabal Arkanu]]* an *[[Jabal Al-Uwaynat]]* lie sootheast o the basin.  

## Sources
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## References
Santa Cruz de Tenerife

**Santa Cruz de Tenerife** (commonly kent as **Santa Cruz**) is the caipital (alang wi Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), an seicont-maist muckle city o the Autonomous Community o the Canary Islands an the 21st maistmuckle city in Spain, wi a population o 222,417 in 2009. Santa Cruz is the seicont maistmuckle city an metropolitan area o the European Union ootside Europe. Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the caipital o the island o Tenerife an aa (maist populatit o archipelago an Spain) an caipital o the province o Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Locatit in northeastren airt o Tenerife, aboot 210 kilometres (130&nbsp;mi) aff the northwastren coast o Africae athin the Atlantic Ocean. Atween the 1833 territorial diveesion o Spain an 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife wis the anely caipital o the Canary Islands, till 1927 when a decree ordered that the caipital o the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present. The port is o great importance an is the communications hub atween Europe, Africae an Americas, wi cruise ships arrivin frae mony naitions. The city is important for domestic an inter-island communications in the Canary Islands.

## Sister ceeties
*  Aranda de Duero, Spain
*  San Antonio, USA
*  Santa Cruz, Californie, USA
*  Atlanta, USA
*  Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivie
*  Caracas, Venezuela
*  Cádiz, Spain
*  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*  Nice, Fraunce
*  Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba
*  Guatemala Ceety, Guatemala
*  Miami-Dade Coonty, Florida, USA
*  Saunt Petersburg, Roushie
*  Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

## References
San Pedro Sula

**San Pedro Sula** is a ceety in Honduras. It is locatit in the northwast corner o the kintra, in the Valle de Sula (Sula Valley), aboot 60&nbsp;km sooth o Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. Wi an estimatit population o 802,598 fowk (2010 estimate) in its metro aurie, it is the seicont lairgest ceety in the kintra ahint the caipital Tegucigalpa, an is considered the industrial centre o Honduras. It is the caipital o the Cortés Depairtment. The ceety serves as a major transportation hub for the rest o the kintra, while economically maintainin its base in licht industry an the commercial production o coffee, bananas, beef, succar cane, tobacco, an forestry.

## References
Cartagena, Colombie

**Cartagena de Indias** (**Cartagena o the Indies** or **Cartagena o the Wast Indies**, in Inglis) (, commonly kent as **Cartageña**, is a ceety on the northren coast o Colombie an caipital o the Depairtment o Bolívar. The ceety haes a population o 892,545 (2005 census). It is the fift lairgest urban aurie in Colombie, an a centre o economic activity in the Caribbean region, as well a popular tourist destination.

In 1984, Cartagena's colonial wawed ceety an fortress wur designatit a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid.

## Sister ceeties

*  Manila, Philippines (1986)
*  Cádiz, Spain, syne 1986
*  Saint Augustine, United States, syne 1986 
*  Cartagena, Spain
*  Miniara, Lebanon
*  San Juan, Puerto Rico

*  Guatemala Ceety, Guatemala (1986)
*  San Salvador, El Salvador
*  Coral Gables, United States
*  San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
*  Batumi, Georgie
Abano, Georgie

**Abano** () is a veelage in north-eastren Georgie. It is locatit on the left bank o the Tergi in the Kazbegi Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, 28&nbsp;km frae Stepantsminda toun. The name literally translates as "a bath", a reference tae the nearbi hot springs. The 17t-century combat touers survive in the veelage.
Cam Pipes

**Cam Pipes** is the lead vocalist in the Canadian Hivy metal baund 3 Inches of Blood. He performs a falsetto vocal style reminiscent o King Diamond. Pipes is the anerlie member o 3 Inches of Blood tae hae featurt on aw o thair albums tae date, awbeit he isna a foondin member o the baund.

Pipes ance played bass for the black metal baund Allfather.

## References

## Fremmit airtins
* 3 Inches of Blood offeecial wabsteid 
* 3 Inches of Blood gallery on Alberta Stars
Faiyum (disambiguation)

**Faiyum** mey refer tae:
* Faiyum, a ceety in the Faiym Oasis in Middle Egyp.
* Faiyum Govrenorate, ane o the govrenorates o Egyp
* Faiyum Oasis, in the Faiyum region in Egyp
Bilad Al Qadeem

**Bilad Al Qadeem** ( *auld coonty*) is a toun in Bahrain. It haes nou been incorporatit intae a suburb o Manama an is situatit next tae Zinj. Prior tae the Portuguese invasion in 1519 it served as the caipital o Bahrain an did so again later durin Safavid rule in the seiventeent century. It wis traditionally a centre for Usuli theological thocht an haed a lang staundin rivalry wi the Akhbari centre o Diraz.

## References
Eagle

**Eagle** is a common name fur mony muckle birds o prey o the faimily Accipitridae. Eagles belang tae mony genera that urnae necessarily closely relatit tae ilk ither. Maist o the 60 species o eagle ur frae Eurasie an Africae. Ootside this area, juist 14 species can be fand - twa in Nor Americae, nine in Central an Sooth Americae, an three in Australie.

## Descrievin
Eagles ur muckle, pouerfu-biggit birds o prey, wi hivy heids an beaks. E'en the smawest eagles, sic as the booted eagle (*Aquila pennata*), that is confeert in size tae the common buzzard (*Buteo buteo*) or reid-tailt hawk (*B. jamaicensis*), hae relative-lik langer an mair even-braid wings, an mair direct, quicker flicht - in spite o the smawer size o aerodynamic feathers.

## References
Colombo

**Colombo** (, pronooncit ; ) is the lairgest ceety an umwhile caipital o Sri Lanka. It is locatit on the wast coast o the island an adjacent tae Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the caipital. Colombo is a busy an vibrant ceety wi a mixture o modren life an colonial biggins an ruins, wi a ceety population o 752,993. The Colombo Metropolitan Region, defined bi the destricts o Colombo, Gampaha an Kalutara, haes an estimatit population o 5,648,000, an covers an aurie o 3,694.20&nbsp;km².

Due tae its lairge harbour an its strategic position alang the East-Wast sea trade routes, Colombo wis kent tae auncient traders 2,000 years ago. Housomeivver it wis anerlie made the caipital o the island when Sri Lanka wis cedit tae the Breetish Empire in 1815, an its status as caipital wis retained when the naition became independent in 1948. In 1978, when admeenistrative functions wur moved tae Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Colombo wis designatit as the commercial caipital o Sri Lanka.

Like mony ceeties, Colombo's urban aurie extends well ayont the bundaries o a single local authority, encompassin ither Municipal an Urban Cooncils. The main ceety is hame tae a majority o Sri Lanka's corporate offices, restaurants an entertainment venues. Famous landmarks in Colombo include the Galle Face Green, the Viharamahadevi Pairk as well as the Naitional Museum.

## Etymology
The name "Colombo", first introducit bi the Portuguese in 1505, is believed tae be derived frae the clessical Sinhalese name කොලොන් තොට *Kolon thota*, meanin "port on the river Kelani". It haes an aw been suggestit that the name mey be derived frae the Sinhalese name කොල-අම්බ-තොට *Kola-amba-thota* which means "Harbour wi leafy mango trees". Housomeivver, it is an aw possible that the Portuguese named the ceety efter Christopher Columbus, the Italian sailor who lived in Portugal for mony years afore discoverin the Americas on behauf o the Spainyie monarchs Ferdinand II o Aragon an Isabella I o Castile. His Portuguese name is Cristóvão Colombo. Colombo set sail wastwards tae leuk for Indie aroond the same time Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama set sail eastwards, landin at the Port o Calicut in Indie on 20 Mey 1498. Colombo landit in the Americas sax years afore that on 12 October 1492 an wis awready a famed sailor an splorer, celebratit baith in Portugal an Spain bi the time Dom Lourenço de Almeida accidentally landit in the port o Galle in 1505.

## Sister ceeties

## References
Suzuki Equator

The **[[Suzuki]] Equator** is a mid-size pickup truck based on the Nissan Frontier. The Suzuki Equator is first sauld in the US for the 2009 model year wi MSRP prices stairtin at $17,220, an wis first shawn at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show.

The Equator is offered in Extendit Cab an Crew Cab styles, the umwhile offerin space for fower passengers an the latter for five. In the Canadian mercat, the Equator is anly offered in the Crew Cab configuration, in a single trim level.

Power on base Extendit Cab models comes frae a 4-cylinder ingine. A V6 is optional on Extendit Cab models an standard wi the Crew Cab. Baith engines are supplied bi Nissan.

The base 2.5 L Inline-4 produces 152&nbsp;hp (113&nbsp;kW) at 5,200 rpm an 171&nbsp;lb·ft (232 N·m) at 4,400 rpm, an is rear-wheel-drive. It comes wi a aither a five-speed manual transmission or a five-speed automatic.

The 4.0 L V6 ingine develops 261&nbsp;hp (195&nbsp;kW) at 5,600 rpm an 281&nbsp;lb·ft (381 N·m) at 4,000 rpm. It comes standard wi a five-speed automatic an is available wi fower-wheel-drive.

The Equator triumphed ower the new Dodge Ram 1500, 2009 Ford F150, Hummer H3 Alpha an H3T Adventure, Kia Borrego EX V8, an Toyota Sequoia Platinum in *Peterson's 4Wheel & Off-Road's 2009* 4x4 o the Year.

## See an aa
* Nissan Frontier
* Suzuki

## References
Ilut

**Ilut** (; ) is an Arab local cooncil in the Northren Destrict o Israel. It wis declared a local cooncil in 1991. Accordin tae the Israel Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS), it haed a population o 6,600 in 2006 wi a growth rate o 2.5%.

Ilut is locatit tae the northwast of Nazareth. The toun is hame tae the Ilut Stadium, the hame grund o Maccabi Ahi Nazareth.

## See an aa
*Leet o Arab localities in Israel
Almaty Region

**Almaty** ( ) is a province o Kazakhstan. Its caipital is Taldykorgan, which haes a population o 118,400. The province itsel haes 1,603,700 fowk. 

## Geografie
Almaty Province is the province which surroonds the ceety o Almaty. The province borders Kyrgyzstan an Xinjiang in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. The province touches three ither Kazakh provinces an aw: Jambyl Province tae the wast, Karagandy Province tae the northwast an East Kazakhstan Province tae the north. Almaty Province haes a aurie o 224,000 square kilometres. 

Loch Balkhash (Balqash Koli in Kazakh) taks up pairt o the northwast o the province. The Trans-Ili Alatau branch o Tian Shan Muntains extend frae Cheenae an Kyrgyzstan intae Almaty Province, alang its soothren border wi Kyrgyzstan.

Charyn Canyon, Ili River, Bartogai an Kapshagay lochs, Loch Kaindy an Loch Kolsai, Loch Issyk are locatit in the province.

## History
**Alma-Ata Province**,  the predecessor o the day's Almaty Province, wis creatit frae the historical region o Zhetysu on 10 Mairch 1932. Its caipital wis Alma-Ata (Almaty). Several times durin the Soviet period, the north-eastren pairt o the province, centred on Taldykorgan, wis separatit frae Alma-Ata Province, formin a separate **Taldy-Kurgan Province**, anerly tae be mergit intae Alma-Ata Province again several years later. 

In Apryle 2001 the admeenistrative centre o the Almaty Province wis muivit frae Almaty tae Taldykorgan. Thus Taldykorgan haes become a provincial caipital again - this time athoot splittin a province.

## Admeenistrative diveesions
The province is admeenistratively dividit intae saxteen destricts an the ceeties o Kapchagay, Taldykorgan, an Tekeli.
# Aksu Destrict, wi the admeenistrative centre in the dounset o Zhansugirov;
# Alakol Destrict, the toun o Usharal;
# Balkhash Destrict, the selo o Bakanas;
# Enbekshikazakh Destrict, the toun o Esik;
# Eskeldi Destrict, the dounset o Karabulak;
# Ile District, the dounset o Otegen Batyr;
# Karasay Destrict, the toun o Kaskelen;
# Karatal Destrict, the toun o Ushtobe;
# Kerbulak Destrict, the dounset o Saryozek;
# Koksu Destrict, the dounset o Balpyk Bi;
# Panfilov Destrict, the toun o Zharkent;
# Raiymbek Destrict, the selo o Kegen;
# Sarkand Destrict, the toun o Sarkand;
# Talgar Destrict, the toun o Talgar;
# Uygur Destrict, the selo o Chundzha;
# Zhambyl Destrict, the selo o Uzynagash.

## Sichts
*Tamgaly - a Warld Heritage Steid (petroglyphs)
*Charyn Canyon - Charyn Naitional Pairk
*Talgar - a region whaur the Issyk kurgan is locatit
*Medeo - ane o the maist famous ice rinks in the warld
*Dostyk - a point o entry frae Cheenae tae Kazakhstan
*Kapchagay Dam on the Ili River

## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial regional wabsteid 

### References
Samarqand Province

**Samarqand Province** (Samarkand Province) () is a viloyat (province) o Uzbekistan locatit in the centre o the kintra in the basin o Zarafshan River. It borders wi Tajikstan, Navoiy Province, Jizzakh Province an Qashqadaryo Province.  It covers an aurie o 16,400&nbsp;km². The population is estimatit tae be aroond 2,322,000, wi some 75% livin in rural auries.

Samarqand Province wis established on 15 Januar 1938, an is dividit intae 14 admeenistrative destricts. The caipital is Samarqand (pop est 368,000 indwallers). Ither major touns include Bulung‘ur, Juma, Ishtixon, Kattaqo‘rg‘on, Urgut, an Oqtosh.

The climate is a teepically arid continental climate.

 Samarkand is the 2nt lairgest centre for economy, science, an cultur in Uzbekistan, efter Tashkent. The **Institute o Archeology at the Academy o Sciences o the Republic o Uzbekistan** is based at Samarqand. The Province's UNESCO Warld Heritage Site airchitectural monuments are warld famous, an mak Samarkand the lairgest centre for internaitional tourism in the kintra.

Samarqand Province an aa haes significant naitural resoorces, includin construction materials sic as marble, granite, limestane, carbonate, an chalk. The Province's major agricultural activities are cotton an cereal growin, winemakin an sericultur. In terms o industry, metal processin (spare pairts for automobiles an combines), fuid processin, textiles, an ceramics industries are the maist active in the aurie.

The province haes a well-developed transport infrastructur, wi ower 400&nbsp;km o railways an 4100&nbsp;km o surfaced roads. The telecommunication infrastructur is an aa well developed.

## Admeenistrative diveesions

Laitinization o destrict names accordin tae Samarqand regional web site on gov.uz 

## References
Chemolgan

**Chemolgan**, or whiles **Shamalgan**, (, ) is a landwart commonty near Almaty in Kazakhstan. It is notable as the birthplace o current Kazakhstani preses, Nursultan Nazarbayev

## References
Iron Sheik

**Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri** (; (born 15 Mairch 1942; deed 7 Juin 2023) wis a Iranian American professional warstler an actor better kent bi his ring name **The Iron Sheik**. He is kent for endin the near sax-year World Wrestling Federation Championship reign o Bob Backlund, an for bein the man Hulk Hogan defeatit for his first WWF Championship.

Cast as a heel in the 1980s, he later gained popularity on Opie and Anthony,  Kidd Chris, The Howard Stern Show, an on the internet due tae his shoot interviews an ootbursts on the wrestlin industry an the hatred he expressed for various warstlers.

## In wrestlin
***Finishing moves**
***[[Camel clutch]]*
***Signature moves**
**Boston crab, whiles while rockin the opponent back an fort
**Multiple suplex variations
***Belly tae back
***Belly tae belly
***Gutwrench
**Short-airm clothesline
***[[Manager (professional wrestlin)|Managers]]**
**The Grand Wizard
**Freddie Blassie
**Jimmy Hart
**Slick
**Daryl Van Horne
**General Adnan

## Championships an accomplishments
***[[Century Wrestling Alliance]]**
**CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
***[[Georgia Championship Wrestling]]**
**NWA National Television Championship (1 time)
***Internaitional Association of Wrestling**
**IAW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
**IAW Tag Team Championship (3 times) – wi Brian Costello
***[[Maple Leaf Wrestling]]**
**NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship ''(Toronto version)'' (2 times)
***[[Jim Crockett Promotions|Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling]]**
**NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
***[[NWA All-Star Wrestling]]**
**NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (''Vancouver version'') (1 time) – wi The Texas Outlaw
***[[National Wrestling Alliance]]**
**NWA Hall of Fame (Cless of 2008)
***[[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA New Zealand]]**
**NWA New Zealand British Commonwealth Championship (1 time)
***[[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA 2000]]**
**NWA 2000 American Heritage Championship (1 time)
***[[Pacific Northwest Wrestling]]**
**NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) – wi Bull Ramos
***[[Pro Wrestling Illustrated]]**
**PWI ranked him #**134** o the 500 best singles wrestlers o the "PWI Years" in 2003
**PWI ranked him #**96** o the 100 best tag teams o the "PWI Years" wi the Nikolai Volkoff in 2003
***[[World Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment]]**
**WWF Championship (1 time)
**WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – wi Nikolai Volkoff
**Winner of Wrestlemania X-Seven Gimmick Battle Royal
**WWE Hall of Fame (Cless of 2005)
***[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards]]**
**Most Underrated Wrestler (1980)
Bilbeis

**Bilbeis** (Coptic *Phelbs*; Arabic بلبيس) is an auncient fortress ceety on the eastren edge o the soothren Nile delta in Egyp.

## History
The ceety played a role in the machinations for control o the Fatimid vizierate: first in 1164, when Shirkuh wis besieged in the ceety bi the combined forces o Shiwar an Amalric I o Jerusalem for three month; then again in 1168 when the ceety wis assaultit again bi Amalric's airmy, who teuk the ceety efter three days on November 4 an indiscriminately killed the inhabitants. This  angered the Coptic Egyptians, who haed seen the Crusaders as deliverers but haed suffered as muckle as the Muslim inhabitants o Bilbeis. The Copts endit their support o the Crusaders an unitit wi their non-Christian neighbors against the foreigners. (See Crusader invasion o Egyp.)

In 1798, its fortifications wur rebuilt at the order o Napoleon.

The ceety is sma in size but densely populatit, wi ower 300,000 residents.  It an aa hooses the Egyptian Air Force Academy complex, which contains the ceety's lairgest public schuil in Al-Zafer.  
It an aa haes the first Mosque built in North Africae.

## References

*Gibb, Sir Hamilton (2006). *The Life of Saladin*. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-86356-928-9.
Harbhajan Singh

**Harbhajan Singh** wis bairn in 1980 tae a middle class faimily. He is a Wirird Class Crecketer. He plays for Indie an guidit them tae vectory in 2011 for their first hestorec win in Decades. He got a warld class perfermance an played for an econemy o 4/34.
Sigtuna

**Sigtuna** is a locality situatit in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm Coonty, Swaden wi 7,204 inhabitants in 2005. It is the namesake o the municipality even though the seat is in Märsta.

Sigtuna is, despite its sma population, for historical reasons aften still referred tae as a ''ceety''. Statistics Swaden, housomeivver, anerlie coonts localities wi mair nor 10,000 inhabitants as ceeties.

Although less significant the day, Sigtuna haes an important place in Swaden's early history. It is the auldest ceety in Swaden, haein been formed in 980. The history o Sigtuna afore the 11t century, as describit in the Norse sagas an ither early medieval sources, can be foond in the airticle Auld Sigtuna.

## Geography
Sigtuna is situatit at the bay Skarven, stretchin aroond Upplands-Bro an a pairt o Lake Mälaren.

## History

Sigtuna wis foondit on wha wis then the shore o Lake Mälaren in the year 980 bi King Eric the Victorious. It teuk its name frae an auncient ryal estate (see Uppsala öd) several kilometers tae the wast (see Fornsigtuna).

It operatit as a ryal an commercial centre for some 250 years, an wis ane o the maist important ceeties o Sweden.  Durin a brief period at the end o the 10t an beginnin o the 11t century, Swaden's first coins were mintit here. The auld kirk built in the 13t century bi the Dominican order at the monastery still remains, an haes haed few restorations. The Dominican monastery played an important role in the Swadish Middle Ages an produced mony important Kirk offeecials. Amang them, mony Swadish archbishops. Mony kirk an monastery ruins still staund, an the auld ceety structure haes no been remodeled, as happened in mony Swadish ceeties durin the 19t an 20t centuries.

In 1187 Sigtuna wis attacked bi pagan raiders,  frae Oesel an Courland. Accordin tae the airchaeologist Sten Tesch, excavations hae no verifee'd the traditions o destruction o the toun. Sigtuna grew an prospered, but aroond the year 1300 it wis surpassed in significance bi Stockholm an Uppsala, an remained as a sma toun.

The current coat o airms can be traced tae the ceety's first kent seal, datin frae 1311. Accordin tae a legend (possibly inspired bi the ceety airms) Sigtuna wis ance the Ryal seat, but this can no be confirmed. The croun mey an aa seembolize the lairge ryal mint which wis locatit in the ceety. The coat o airms is syne 1971 valid for the hintle lairger Sigtuna Municipality.

In the late 19t century, it still anerlie hostit aboot 600 fowk, an wis the smawest ceety in Swaden. The ceety remained insignificant til the seicont hauf o the 20t century. Hintle o the population growth can be relatit tae Arlanda Airport, situatit some 10&nbsp;km frae Sigtuna.

## See an aw
* Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket, a famous buirdin schuil.
* The replica o the Swadish ceety o Sigtuna in Shanghai, panoramio photos o the replica 

## References
*  article ''Sigtuna'' frae Nordisk familjebok

## Freemit airtins

*Sigtuna Municipality - Offeecial steid
Ruglen

**Ruglen** (['rʌglɛn], ) is a toun in Sooth Lanrikshire, Scotland. *Ruglen* cums frae the Gaelic *An Ruadh Ghleann*, meinin "the reid glen". In 1975, it loast its ain local cooncil an becam a pairt o the City o Glesga. In 1996 Ruglen wis gien bak til the Sooth Lanrikshire cooncil area.

## Soorces
John Ker, 1st Duke o Roxburghe

**John Ker, 1st Duke o Roxburghe**, PC, FRS (c. 1680–1741) wis the seicont son o Robert Ker, 3rd Earl o Roxburghe, an Margaret Hay, dochter o John Hay, 1st Marquess o Tweeddale. He wis younger brither tae Robert Ker, 4th Earl o Roxburghe.

John became 5t Earl o Roxburghe on the daith o his brither Robert in 1696. In 1704 he wis made a Secretary o State o Scotland, an he helped tae bring aboot the union wi Ingland, being creatit Duke o Roxburghe in 1707 for his services in this connection. This wis the last creation in the Scots peerage. On 28 Mey 1707, he wis admittit a FRS.

The duke wis a representative peer for Scotland in fower parliaments. George I made him a privy cooncillor an Keeper o the Privy Seal o Scotland, an he wis leal tae the keeng durin the Jacobite rising in 1715. He served as Secretary o State for Scotland in the Breetish Parliament frae 1716 tae 1725, but he opposed the malt tax, an in 1725 Sir Robert Walpole procured his dismissal frae office.  In Aprile 1727 he wis ane o the sax pall-bearers o Sir Isaac Newton's coffin at Westminster Abbey.  He wis ane o the oreeginal govrenors o the Foundling Hospital, a charity creatit bi ryal charter on 17 October 1739.

He dee'd on 24 Februar 1741. His ae son, Robert (c.1709–1755), who haed been creatit *Earl Ker o Wakefield* in 1722, became 2nt duke.

## References
Şalom

***Şalom*** (, ) is a Jewish weekly newspaper published in Turkey. Its name is the Turkis spellin o the Ebreu wird שלום (*[[Shalom]]*). It wis established on 29 October 1947 bi the Turkis Jewish journalist Avram Leyon. It is printed in Istanbul an is published ilka Wadensday. Apairt frae a body Ladino page, it is published in Turkis. İvo Molinas is its publisher. Yakup Barokas is its editor-in-chief. Its circulation is aboot 5,000. 

## Fremmit airtins
* Şalom online edeetion 
* Şalom online edeetion
Bamako

**Bamako** (, *Bàmakɔ̌*, , *Bamako*) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Mali, an currently estimatit tae be the fastest growin ceety in Africae (saxt fastest in the warld). It is locatit on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper an Middle Niger Valleys, in the soothwastren pairt o the kintra. Bamako is the naition's admeenistrative centre as well as a cercle, wi a river port locatit in nearbi Koulikoro, an a major regional tred an conference centre. Bamako is the seivent lairgest Wast African urban centre efter Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar an Accra. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, an metal guids. Thare is commercial fishin on the Niger River.

The name *Bamako* comes frae the Bambara wird meanin "crocodile river".

## Sister ceeties
* Angers, Fraunce (syne 1974)
* Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
* Dakar, Senegal
* Leipzig, Germany
* Rochester, New York United States (syne 1975)
* São Paulo, Brazil (syne 2000)

## References
Conakry

**Conakry** (Sosso: **) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Guinea. Conakry is a port ceety on the Atlantic Ocean an serves as the economic, financial an cultural centre o Guinea wi a 2009 population o 1,548,500. Oreeginally situatit on Tombo Island, ane o the Îles de Los, it haes syne spread up the neighbourin Kaloum Peninsula.

The population o Conakry is difficult tae ascertain, awtho the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs haes estimatit it at 2 million. Conakry is thocht tae contain amaist a quarter o the population o Guinea.
Balykchy

**Balykchy** () is a the seicont lairgest ceety in the Issyk Kul Province. It haes a population aboot 40,000 fowk locatit at the wastren end o Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at  an an elevation o aboot 1,900 meters.

## Names an etymology
It wis named Rybachye (*fishin place* in Roushie) in 1909-1993. In the early 1990s, follaein the disintegration o the Soviet Union, the toun wis kent as Issyk-Kul, takin the name o the adjacent lake. Shortly efter unthirldom, its name wis chyngit tae **Balykchy** http://www.dostuck.com.kg/old/cities.shtml  which means *fisherman* in Kyrgyz leid.

## Economy
A major industrial an transport center (oo an crop processin, lake shippin, rail terminal, an road junction) durin the Soviet era, it lost maist o its economic base efter the collapse o the Soviet Union an the closure o virtually aw o its industrial facilities.

## Transport
The main road frae Bishkek, the caipital o Kyrgyzstan, tae Cheenae, a pairt o the auncient  Great Silk Road, passes throu Balykchy afore it stairts its lang an arduous wey athort the alpine ranges o Naryn Province in central Kyrgyzstan tae the Cheenese mairch at Torugart Pass. Plans for the rail road frae the Cheenese mairch tae Balykchy, whaur the line frae Bishkek currently ends, are unner discussion. Twa ither roads go aroond the north an sooth sides o Issyk Kul tae Karakol an then aroond the east end o the Kungey Alatau tae the far sootheast o Kazakhstan.

## References
* 

## External links
Kingston

**Kingston** is widely acceptit as a contraction o the Inglis "King's Town", o which thare are mony examples. It mey refer tae:

## Places
### Australie
*Kingston, Norfolk Island, caipital o the territory

### Jamaica
*Kingston, Jamaica, caipital o Jamaica

### Ingland
* Kingston upon Hull, East Riding o Yorkshire
* Kingston upon Thames, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater Lunnon
* Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater Lunnon
Kingston, Jamaica

**Kingston** or **Keengston**, is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Jamaica, locatit on the sootheastren coast o the island. It faces a natural harbour protectit bi the Palisadoes, a lang sand spit which connects the toun o Port Royal an the Norman Manley Internaitional Airport tae the rest o the island. In Americae, Kingston is the lairgest predominantly Inglis-speakin ceety sooth o the Unitit States.

The local govrenment bouks o the pairishes o Kingston an St. Andra wur amalgamatit bi the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation Act o 1923, tae form the **Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation** (KSAC). Greater Kingston, or the "Corporate Aurie" refers tae those auries unner the KSAC; housomeivver, it does no solely refer tae Kingston Pairish, which anerlie consists o the auld dountoun an Port Royal. Kingston Pairish haed a population o 96,052, an St. Andrew pairish haed a population o 555,828 in 2001. Keengstoun is anerlie bordered bi Saint Andrew tae the east, wast an north. The geografical border for the pairish o Keengstoun ends at East Street, Wast Street an North Street.

The ceety proper is bundit bi Six Miles tae the wast, Stony Hill tae the north, Papine tae the northeast an Harbour View tae the east, commonties in urban an suburban Saint Andrew. Commonties in landwart St. Andrew such as Gordon Toun, Mavis Bank, Lawrence Tavern, Mt. Airy an Bull Bay wad no be describit as bein in Keengstoun ceety.

Twa pairts mak up the central aurie o Kingstoun: the historic but troubled Downtown, an New Kingston is servit bi Norman Manley Internaitional Airport an an' a' bi the smawer an primarily domestic Tinson Pen Aerodrome.

## Sister ceeties
Keengstoun haes sax sister ceeties:
*  Miami, Florida, Unitit States
*  Kalamazoo, Michigan, Unitit States
*  Topeka, Kansas, Unitit States
*  Coventry, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick
*  Guadalajara, Mexico
*  Shenzhen, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
*  Panevėžys, Lithuania

## References
Sopron

**Sopron** (; , , Laitin: *Scarbantia*) is a ceety in Hungary on the Austrian border, near the Loch Neusiedl/Loch Fertő.

## Airchitectur

The airchitectur o the auld section o toun reflects its lang history; waws an fundations frae the Roman Empire are still common, thegither wi a walth o Medieval, Renaissance, an Baroque structurs, aften airtistically decoratit, showin centuries o stability an prosperity.

There is an auld synagogue an ither remains frae the toun's umwhile Jewish commonty, which wis expelled in the 16t century.

On Daloshegy, thare is a 165 metres taw FM-/TV-broadcasting touer, which leuks like a rocket an haes tharefore the elk-name "Rakéta" (Hungarian for rocket).

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — sister ceeties
Sopron is twinned wi:
Valery Leontiev

**Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev** (; born 19 Mairch 1949 in Ust-Usa, Komi ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union) is a Roushie pop sangster whose popularity peakit in the early 1980s. He wis titled a Fowkairtist o Roushie in 1996. He is kent as ane o the maist prominent airtists o Roushie muisic.

Ower the course o his decades-lang career, he haes recordit mair nor 30 albums, mony o which sauld millions o copies.
Errol, Perth an Kinross

**Errol** is a veelage in Pairth an Kinross, Scotland aboot haufway atween Dundee an Pairth. It is ane o the principal settlements o the Carse o Gowrie.

Errol is kent for its reeds, whilk uised tae be collectit up tae a few year syne tae mak thatched ruifs. Thir reeds grow in the banks o the River Tay an act as hame tae a fairly uncommon bird cried the bearded tit. Errol haes a lairge kirk, built in 1831, kent as the "Cathedral o The Carse" whilk can be seen frae maist pairts o the veelage an frae far aroond.

Errol is an aa kent for its local brick factory.

Errol Primary Schuil is ower a century auld an is whaur mony local childer gang tae lear. Errol haes twa general grocery shops; ither local amenities include a chip shop, post office, ane pub/restaurant, community centre, a doctors' surgery, pharmacy an hairdresser. The local winery Cairn o' Mhor haes wan mony awards for its wines made frae local produce lik aik sap, rhubarb an brambles an is situatit on the same fermyard as Gillies & Mackay Ltd, a local shed company.

Errol lees on the National Cycle Network NCN 77 frae Dundee tae Pitlochry an is situatit aboot a mile frae the A90 Perth tae Dundee Road. This maks it popular for fowk wha commute tae wirk. Errol is surroondit bi agricultural flat fields an haes a prominent attractive location athin this settin.

The site o the wartime RAF Errol airfield is situatit approximately ane mile east o the veelage. It hosts the Errol car buit sale ivery Sunday, bringin in mony fowk frae surroondin auries includin Perth an Dundee.

The veelage haed a railway station on the line atween Perth an Dundee till the mid-1980s.  British Rail annoonced its decision tae close it on 30 September 1985.

## See an aa

* Earl o Erroll

## References

## Freemit airtins
*
*Errol Kirk 
*Errol Primary Schuil 
*Carse o Gowrie Weather
*Errol Veelage Wabsited 
*Gillies & Mackay Ltd
Blood Fire Death

***Blood Fire Death*** is the fowert album bi the Swadish baund Bathory. It continued the baund's transition towards mair epic sangwritin, an includes some o the first Viking metal recordins, although it is still maistly black metal.

The leerics tae "The Golden Walls of Heaven" an "Dies Irae" are acrostics: the first letters o each line form phrases, namely "SATAN" (repeatit 8 times) an "CHRIST THE BASTARD SON OF HEAVEN". The leerics tae "For All Those Who Died" wur taken frae a poem bi Erica Jong, first published in her beuk *Witches* (1981).

The front cover comes frae a paintin bi Peter Nicolai Arbo: *Åsgårdsreien* (1872).

## Track leetin
*All sangs written bi Quorthon
# "Odens Ride Over Nordland" – 2:59
# "A Fine Day to Die" – 8:35
# "The Golden Walls of Heaven" – 5:22
# "Pace 'till Death" – 3:39
# "Holocaust" – 3:25
# "For All Those Who Died" – 4:57
# "Dies Irae" – 5:11
# "Blood Fire Death" – 10:28
# "Outro" – 0:58

Note: The ootro is no includit on the cassette release.

## Credits
*Quorthon – guitars, vocals, bass, drums
*Peter Nicolai Arbo – album cover paintin, *The Wild Hunt of Odin (Åsgårdsreien)*
*Pelle Matteus – photography

## Notes an references
Katra (disambiguation)

**Katra** means caravanserai or roadside inn in Arabic an Persie an mey refer tae:

## Fowk
***[[Katra]]** (1984-), Finnish sangster.

## Places
* Katra, Gonda, a toun an a nagar panchayat in Uttar Pradesh, Indie
Katra, Gonda

**Katra** is a toun and a nagar panchayat in Gonda destrict in the Indie state o Uttar Pradesh.

## Geografie
Katra is locatit at . It haes an average elevation o 111&nbsp;metres (364&nbsp;feet).

## Demographics
In the Indie census, Katra haed a population o 6,430. Males constitute 51% o the population an females 49%. Katra haes an average literacy rate o 40%, lawer than the naitional average o 59.5%: male literacy is 49%, an female literacy is 31%. In Katra, 22% o the population is unner 6 years o age.

## References
Jauja

**Jauja** (Quechua: **Xauxa**) is a ceety an the caipital o Jauja Province in Peru. It is situatit in the fertile Mantaro Glen, 45 kilometres (28&nbsp;mi) tae the northwast o Huancayo (the caipital o Junín Region), at an altitude o 3,400 metres (11,200&nbsp;ft). Its population accordin tae the 2007 census wis 16,424.

Jauja, which flourished for a short time, wis ance the caipital o Spainyie Peru, prior tae the foondin o Lima as the new caipital. It forms the popular expression *pais de jauja*, which literally means "kintra o Jauja", but figuratively means “niver niver laund o milk an honey”. The toun, wi a laid back ambiance an salubrious climate, haes narrae streets wi hooses paintit blue. Laguna de Paca lake is close tae the ceety.
Fiji Hindi

**Fiji Hindi**, also kent as **Fijian Hindi** or **Fijian Hindustani**, is the leid spoken bi maist Fijian ceetizens o Indie strynd, though a smaa nummer speak ither leids at home. It is a fairm o the Awadhi variety o Hindi, influenced bi Bhojpuri, nae o Hindustani itself. It haes also borrowed a lairge nummer o wirds frae Fijian an Inglis. A lairge nummer o wirds, unique tae Fiji Hindi, hae been creatit tae cater for the new environment that Indo-Fijians nou live in. First-generation Fiji Indians, who uised the leid as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred tae it as *Fiji Baat* (Fiji talk).

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Ethnologue - Fiji Hindi
Kahramanmaraş

**Kahramanmaraş** ( Marʻaڑ ,  *Maraڑ*) is the caipital ceety o Kahramanmaraş Province in sootheastren Turkey. The ceety lies on a plain at the fuit o the Taurus Muntains an haes a population o 412.252.  The region is best kent for the popular Turkis sangster/songwriter Kirac, its production o salep, a flour made frae dree'd orchid tubers, an its distinctive ice cream. It is connectit bi air tae Istanbul an Ankara. Turkish Airlines haes daily direct flichts frae İstanbul an an' a' Anadolu Jet operates direct flichts frae Ankara.

## Freemit airtins
*Kahramanmaraş Ceety Portal 
*Kahramanmaraş Communication Portal 
*Kahramanmaraş Daily Information Wabsteid 
*Kahramanmaraş Offeecial Govrenment Wabsteid
*Kahramanmaraş Toun Office Wabsteid
*Kahramanmaraş Toun Office Websteid - Ceety Transportation 
*Kahramanmaraş Toun Polis Office Wabsteid
*Kahramanmaraşspor Unofficial Wabsteid 
*Kahramanmaraş, University of Sütçü İmam
Bursa

**Bursa** is a ceety in northwastren Turkey an the seat o Bursa Province. Wi a population of 1,905,570 (2010), it is Turkey's fowert lairgest ceety, as well as ane o the maist industrialized metropolitan centers in the kintra.

Bursa wis the caipital o the Ottoman State atween 1326 an 1365. The ceety wis referred tae as "Hüdavendigar" (meaning "God's Gift") durin the Ottoman period, while a mair recent nickname is "Yeşil Bursa" (meanin "Green Bursa") in reference tae the pairks an gardens locatit athort its urban tissue, as well as tae the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surroondin region. The ceety is synonymous wi Mount Uludağ which touers ahint its core an which is an aw a famous ski resort. The mausoleums o early the Ottoman sultans are locatit in Bursa an the numerous edifices built throughoot the Ottoman period constitute the ceety's main landmarks. The surroondin fertile plain, its thermal baths, several interestin museums, notably a rich museum o airchaeology, an a rather orderly urban growth are further principal elements that complete Bursa's oweraw pictur. 

Karagöz an Hacivat shadow play characters wur historic personalities who livit an are buriet in Bursa. Bursa is an aw hame tae some o the maist famous Turkis dishes such as İskender kebap, specially candiet marron glacés, peaches an lokum. Bursa is hame tae the Uludağ University, an its population attains ane o the heichest oweraw levels o education in Turkey. Athin the Bursa Province, the touns o İznik (Nicaea), Mudanya an Zeytinbağı are especially notable for their lang history an important monuments.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns—Sister ceeties

Bursa is twinned wi:

## References
Darkestrah

**Darkestrah** is a black metal baund frae Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Their muisic mells black metal wi fowk influences.

Darkestrah pleys "epic shamanic metal" alarnely sin 1999 an is ane o the few baunds thae uise tradeetional instruments like Kyl-kyjak, Komuz an Sygyt. 

Female black metal vocals an throat singin creauts the air o the speeritual shamanic fowk.

## Members
;Current members
* Kriegtalith - vocals (1999-)
* Asbath - drums, percussion, Temir-komuz (1999-)
* Resurgemus - keys, guitars  (2001-)

;Live members
* Visc - bass
;Umwhile members
* Anti - guitar
* Anastasia - keybuirds
* Helvete - bass
* Oldhan - guitar, bass, throat singin
* Shagan - keybuird, cello
* Sharthar - guitar

## Discografie
;Demos
* Pagan Black Act (1999)
* Through the Ashes of the Shamanic Flames (2000)
;Studio albums
* *Sary Oy* (2004)
* *Embrace of Memory* (2005)
* *Epos* (2007)
* *The Great Silk Road* (2008)
* *Manas* (2013)
;EP
* *Khagan* (2011)
* The Way to Paganism (2005)

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial Wabpage 
* Offeecial Facebook Page
* Offeecial MySpace Page
*