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Netherlands 
 The highest point in both the Netherlands proper and the Kingdom of the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, on the Caribbean island of Saba, at 887 metres.
Netherlands 
 The Netherlands is a small flat country; about 300 kilometers from north to south, and about 170 kilometers from east to west.
Netherlands 
 The Saxon dialects spoken in the northeastern part of the Netherlands are somewhat similar to Low German.
Netherlands 
 According to a survey done in 2006, 25% of the Dutch people are Christian and 3% believe in another organised religion, like Judaism, Islam or Hinduism.
Netherlands 
 Twenty-six percent are 'unbounded spiritual' (have their own beliefs and are not tied to a religion).
Netherlands 
 In addition, NS provides international rail services from the Netherlands to other European destinations and carries out concessions on a number of foreign rail markets through its subsidiary Abellio such as Abellio Greater Anglia, Merseyrail and ScotRail.
Ukraine 
 Russia is to the north-east of Ukraine, Belarus is to the north-west, Poland and Slovakia are to the west, Hungary, Romania, Moldova and self-proclaimed Transnistria are to the south-west and the Black Sea is to the south.
Ukraine 
 In the 2001 census, about 29% of people in Ukraine said that they consider Russian to be their main language.
Ukraine 
 Kyiv (from the late 9th century was the capital of Kyivan Rus; the capital of Ukraine since the restoration of the independent Ukrainian state in 1919)
Ukraine 
 The name "Ukraine" (u-krayina) has usually been interpreted as "edge" or "borderland", but this an alternative interpretation as "territory" has been proposed.
Ukraine 
 Most historians believe that the Great Steppe at the North of the Black Sea was a homeland of all Indo-European and Indo-Iranian languages.
Ukraine 
 Wends, Goths, Huns, Sclaveni, Avars, and other tribes and tribal groups fought among themselves, joined unions, terminated, and assimilated each other.
Ukraine 
 By the middle of the 4th century AD, Antes joined other tribes and established a state under their rule.
Ukraine 
 Since the 7th century over 10 tribal groups joined under the name "Slavs" and made their own state named Rus.
Ukraine 
 The chronicles mention three centers that formed this state: Kuyavia (Kyiv land with Kyiv itself), Slavia (Novgorod land), and Artania (exact location unknown).
Ukraine 
 Historians still argue about whether Kyiv was founded by Slavs themselves, or they just captured the Khazar fortress which was located on the bank of the Dnieper river, but since the 10th century, it became the capital of the largest and most powerful state in Europe.
Ukraine 
 Established by the Slavic with the help of the Varangian squads whose force was used to integrate separate tribes and their lands into one powerful state.
Ukraine 
 Varangian princes, who ruled Rus from its first years were gradually assimilated by natives, but the dynasty started by semy-legendary Ririk survived and continued to govern their separate principalities even after the collapse of Rus.
Ukraine 
 At an early stage of its existence Rus destroyed such powerful states as the Khazar Khaganate and Old Great Bulgaria.
Ukraine 
 Rus princes successfully fought against the Byzantine Empire, whose emperors had to pay tribute to them.
Ukraine 
 It occupied the territory from Peipus, Ladoga and Onega lakes in the north to the River Don, Ros, Sula, Southern Bug in the south, from the Dniester, the Carpathians, the Neman, Western Dvina River in the west to the Volga and the Oka River in the east, its area became about 800,000 km2.
Ukraine 
 Although some of his predecessors already accepted Christianity for themselves, Vladimir decided to convert the entire population of the state to the new religion.
Ukraine 
 Partially with the help of Byzantine missionaries preachers, partly by the brutal violence, he finally made all Kyiv population to be baptized.
Ukraine 
 For this action, the Ukrainian, and later the Russian Orthodox Churches canonized him under the name of Vladimir the Baptist.
Ukraine 
 During the reign of Yaroslav the Wise, (1019–1054), Rus reached the zenith of its cultural development and military power.
Ukraine 
 Rus raised the prestige of Eastern Slavs in Europe, improved the international significance of Kyiv.
Ukraine 
 Kyivan princes supported the political, economic, dynastic relations with France, Sweden, England, Poland, Hungary, Norway, Byzantium.
Ukraine 
 The Rus state also ruled non-Slavic people (Finno-Ugric population of the North, Turkic of the East and South, Balts of the West, etc.).
Ukraine 
 Those people gradually assimilated with the Slavs, and with each other, establishing a framework for the future emergence of three new Eastern-Slavic peoples.
Ukraine 
 The Kyivan State was an eastern outpost of European Christendom, it kept the movement of nomad hordes to the West, and reduced their onslaught against Byzantium and Central European countries.
Ukraine 
 After the death of Mstyslav Volodymyrovych (1132), Rus lost its political unity and finally was divided into 15 principalities and lands.
Ukraine 
 Among them, Kyiv, Chernygiv, Volodymyr-Suzdal, Novgorod, Smolensk, Polotsk, and Halycian lands and principalities were most large and powerful.
Ukraine 
 The succession among the princes of Kyivan State was different: in some regions lands passed from father to son, in others from the older to the younger brother, etc.
Ukraine 
 The political relationship between individual fiefdoms and private lands was weakened, and the better development of certain lands led to the formation of local separatism;
Ukraine 
 In some regions the local aristocracy required a strong prince to rule, in order to protect their rights.
Ukraine 
 On the other hand,  while the feudal princes and boyars real power increased, and the power of the Grand Prince decreased, more and more nobles felt priority of their local interests above national ones;
Ukraine 
 There was not created their own dynasty  in the Kyiv principality, because all the princely families struggled with each other for possession of Kyiv ;
Ukraine 
 While Kyiv was the center of all social, economic, political, cultural, and ideological life in the country for a long time before, other centers have competed with it since the mid-12th century.
Ukraine 
 It only changed the form of its government: The personal monarchy was replaced by the federal one, Rus came to be co-ruled by the group of the most influential and powerful princes.
Ukraine 
 In 1206 the new powerful military-feudal Mongolian state headed by Genghis Khan started the war of conquest against his neighbors.
Ukraine 
 In 1223 in the battle near the Kalka River, 25,000 Tatar-Mongols won a crushing victory over the squads of Southern Rus Princes, who were unable to come together even in the face of grave danger.
Ukraine 
 Under the leadership of Batu, Genghis Khan's grandson, from 1237-1238, they conquered Riazan, Volodymir, Suzdal, and Yaroslavl lands.
Ukraine 
 According to the legend, the enemy saved governor Dimitri's life for his personal courage in the battle.
Ukraine 
 Batu was able to attach most of Rus to his empire, the Golden Horde, which covered the whole territory from the Urals to the Black Sea,
Ukraine 
 After the fall of Kyivan State, the political, economic, and cultural center of Ukrainian lands was transferred to the Halycian-Volyn Land.
Ukraine 
 Hoping to get help from Catholic Europe in his struggle for independence, he also made a secret alliance with Poland, Hungary, Masovia, and the Teutonic Knights.
Ukraine 
 In 1259, due to the lack of military aid from the West, the king was forced to re-recognize the supremacy of the Horde.
Ukraine 
 In 1308 the government moved to Danylo's grandchildren - Andrew and Lev II, who started the new struggle against the Golden Horde allied with the Teutonic knights and princes of Mazowia.
Ukraine 
 However, after their death the last monarch Yuri II again had to claim himself as the Golden Horde vassal.
Ukraine 
 He was murdered in 1340 and his death gave the rise to Poland and Lithuania (the neighbors who had a  dynastic right for the throne of Rus) to start a war for the Halycian-Volyn heritage.
Ukraine 
 In 1392 Galicia, with Belz and Chelm Lands were finally incorporated to the Kingdom of Poland and Volhynia to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Ukraine 
 Southern Ukraine was under the rule of the Crimean Khanate (formed in 1447) and the Eastern under the power of Muscovy.
Ukraine 
 In 1569 Lithuania and Poland merged to the united state called Commonwealth (Polish: Rzeczpospolita) to deal with neighbors, as a result, the central Ukrainian lands of Lithuania came under Polish control.
Ukraine 
 Rus, or The Kyivan State, , ; often misspelled as "Kievan State" or even "Kievan Rus", using Russian spelling of its capital Kyiv ( [ˈkiɛf]).
Ukraine 
 Normans (Vikings), tribes who called themselves Ruses, and founded a state among Slavs, which naturally was called 'Rus Land'.
Ukraine 
 Its authors are German historians G. Bayer and G. Miller, their followers and associates are called 'Normanists';
Ukraine 
 Ukrainian historians generally adhere to anti-Norman opinion, while not denying the contribution Varangians in the process of formation of the Rus state system.
Ukraine 
 The name of the territory where Kyiv, Chernigov and Pereiaslav are located (Polans, Severians, Drevlians tribes);
Ukraine 
 At the end of the 15th century, the groups of warriors who called themselves Cossacks appeared on the territory between the borders of Lithuania, Muscovy, and the Crimea, in the "wild steppes" of Zaporizhia.
Ukraine 
 Zaporizhian Cossacks participated in the wars on the side of the Commonwealth: the Livonian War (1558-1583), the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618), Khotyn war (1620-1621), and Smolensk war (1632-1634).
Ukraine 
 Cossacks also organized their own campaigns in Moldavia, Muscovy, and Crimea, on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria and in Asia Minor for looting.
Ukraine 
 The largest rebellions were raised under the guidance of Kosynskiy (1591-1593), Nalyvaiko (1594-1596), Zhmaylo (1625), Fedorovych (1630), Sulima (1635), Pavlyuk (1637), and Ostryanin (1638).
Ukraine 
 Cossacks, again and again, defended the rights of the Ukrainian population in the Commonwealth who experienced religious and national oppression regularly.
Ukraine 
 During the first years of World War II, Ukrainian nationalists collaborated with Nazis against Soviet Union hoping to reestablish Ukrainian independence or to get autonomy under the authority of Germany.
Ukraine 
 However, hopes of independence were ruined and Ukrainian nationalists created Ukrainian Insurgent Army which fought against Nazi Germany but against the Soviet Union (mainly Soviet partisans) for the most part.
Ukraine 
 Most Ukrainians fought on the side of the Soviet Union and participated in the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi Germany.
Ukraine 
 In 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded as a result of an improper test.
Ukraine 
 The accident contaminated large portions of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus with uranium, plutonium, and radioactive isotopes.
Ukraine 
 It was one of only two INES level 7 accidents (the worst level) in the history of nuclear power, the other being the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Ukraine 
 Under the second Soviet occupation repressions against Ukrainian nationalists continued and lasted till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ukraine 
 In the Soviet epoch, Ukraine was renamed to so-called a "Soviet Socialist Republic" incorporated into Soviet Union.
Ukraine 
 President elections: 1 December 1991, July 1994, October-November 1999, October-December 2004, January 2010
Ukraine 
 Parliament elections: March 1994, March 1998, March 2002, March 2006, September 2007 (prematurely), October 2012
Ukraine 
 Constitution of Ukraine was adopted by Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) 28 July 1996 with changes 8 December 2004.
Ukraine 
 The political demonstrations in autumn-winter 2004 after the Presidential elections gathered millions of people all over the country.
Ukraine 
 On November 26, 2004, Victor Yuschenko lost the Ukrainian presidential election (Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner).
Ukraine 
 They argued that the election results had been falsified by the Ukrainian government, in support of the opposing candidate Victor Yanukovych.
Ukraine 
 They organized political demonstrations in autumn-winter 2004 that gathered millions of people all over the country.
Ukraine 
 Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was an important ally of Victor Yuschenko during the demonstrations.
Ukraine 
 Big pro-European Union protests called Euromaidan () began in November 2013 and made the President go away in February.
Ukraine 
 In March 2014, Russia occupied Crimea, made a pseudo-referendum which proclaimed Crimea independence and annexed it.
Ukraine 
 In April 2014 Ukraine military attacked people in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, which has many Russian-speaking people.
Ukraine 
 In 2016, the New Safe Confinement was built to cover the remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and prevent radiation from escaping.
Liechtenstein 
 It is the sixth smallest country in the world and, with Uzbekistan, one of only two doubly landlocked countries.
Liechtenstein 
 Liechtenstein was linked with Austria until the end of World War I, after which it became linked with Switzerland in a customs union.
Portugal 
 It once had an empire called the Portuguese Empire, and was a powerful maritime nation from 1500s–1800s, the 10th-largest empire with a maximum land area of 10.4 million km² which included Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, East Timore, São Tomé and Príncipe, Portuguese Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and even Macau in China (until 2002).
Portugal 
 Portugal is a popular holiday destination but is sometimes overlooked in favour of larger countries like France, Spain and Italy.
Portugal 
 Three groups of islands in the Atlantic Ocean are also part of Portugal: the Azores (Açores), Madeira and the Savage Isles (Ilhas Selvagens).
Portugal 
 Eight years after Portugal’s involvement in World War One, a military group took control of the country from the Portuguese First Republic called the 28 May coup d’état.
Portugal 
 This began a time of rule by authoritarian governments called Ditadura Nacíonal that later became known as Estado Novo.
Portugal 
 In 1974 a peaceful left-wing army coup, called the Carnation Revolution had taken place that overthrown the military dictatorship and ended the Portuguese Colonial War.
Portugal 
 The coup was an important part of Portugal’s transition to democracy and changed the way the country was ran.
Portugal 
 The next year, Portugal allowed its colonies in Africa to be on their own sovereignty: Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe.
Portugal 
 East Timor in Asia declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975, and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later.
Portugal 
 Some famous Portuguese people are D. Afonso Henriques, Henry the Navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Ferdinand Magellan, Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Amália Rodrigues, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Slovakia 
 Slovakia (Slovak: Slovensko) (Official name The Slovak Republic, Slovenská republika) is a country with no access to the ocean in Central Europe.
Slovakia 
 It is bordered by Austria in the southwest, Hungary in the south, Ukraine in the east, Poland in the north and Czech Republic in the northwest.
Slovakia 
 Its capital city is Bratislava, the only capital of the world that borders with other two countries.
Slovakia 
 At the turn of millenniums, many different Germanic tribes like Quadi and Marcomanni started to overtake the area.
Slovakia 
 They even fought Germanic tribes, with the most northern presence being in Trenčín (Laugaritio), during the Marcomannic Wars.
Slovakia 
 Great Moravia was at first in constant quarrels with the Eastern Francia, and at the beginning of the 10th century, with the Magyars who arrived from Asia.
Slovakia 
 The Magyars conquered Great Moravia in 906, and established the Hungarian Principality, resulting later in the creation of the Kingdom of Hungary in year 1000.
Slovakia 
 The Hungarian kings started to invite other settlers, for example Germans in the 13th century, and many others started to arrive in the kingdom, Vlachs from Romania in the 14th century and Jews.
Slovakia 
 In the 16th century the Ottoman Empire occupied the southern part of the kingdom including the two most important towns, Buda (capital) and Székesfehérvár (coronation capital).
Slovakia 
 Many Hungarian nobles moved to Slovakia and the king moved to Bratislava (Pressburg, Pozsony at that time).
Slovakia 
 After the Ottomans started to retreat back from Hungary, Bratislava continued to be capital until 1848, when it was moved back to Budapest.
Slovakia 
 The creation of a dual monarchy, Austria-Hungary, enabled the Hungarian government to initiate a policy of suppressing the teaching of languages other than the Hungarian language in state schools.
Slovakia 
 During World War I, this movement convinced the future victorious powers to recognise a new state of Czechoslovakia after the war.
Slovakia 
 The territory of today's Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1938 and again from 1945 until 1989.
Slovakia 
 Czechoslovakia was one of the states which came into existence after the breakup of Austria-Hungary at end of World War I in 1918.
Slovakia 
 Czechoslovakia split up in 1939, when Slovakia, under Hitler's influence and pressure, declared independence and became a client state.
Slovakia 
 Under the regime, the state fought in the war on the side of Nazi Germany and deported about 70,000 of its Jewish citizens to Nazi extermination camps as part of the Holocaust.
Slovakia 
 The territory of Czechoslovakia was liberated by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II in 1945.
Slovakia 
 The Communist Party successfully performed a state coup in 1948 and ruled Czechoslovakia as a totalitarian one-party state which was a satellite of the Soviet Union.
Slovakia 
 In 1989, the one-party rule of the Communist Party was overthrown during the Velvet Revolution, which was a series of large and peaceful demonstrations by the citizens in the streets.
Slovakia 
 However, it split up into two independent countries (Slovakia and Czech Republic) on January 1, 1993 in what became known as the Velvet Divorce.
Slovakia 
 It is noted primarily for its mountainous nature, with the Carpathian Mountains being in the north and various lowlands mostly in the south.
Slovakia 
 The highest mountain range are the Tatra mountains with the highest peak, the Gerlachov Peak (Slovak: Gerlachovský štít; 2,654 m).
Slovakia 
 At low altitudes, Slovakia's climate is humid continental (Dfb in the Koeppen climate classification, with warm summers and cloudy, cold and humid winters.
Slovakia 
 Most people are Slovak (86%), but in southern regions of Slovakia live Hungarians (10%), with some municipalities even being with the Hungarian majority (for example, Komárno or Dunajská Streda), Ruthenian or Ukrainian are spoken in the northeast.
Slovakia 
 A minority Roma population speak versions of the Romany language and are scattered mainly in the east.
Slovakia 
 Air: Slovakia has 6 international airports, with the most important ones being in Bratislava and Košice, others are near Sliač, Poprad, Žilina and Piešťany.
Slovenia 
 During World War II, Italy, Hungary and Germany took parts of the country but in 1945 it became part of Yugoslavia again.
Denarius 
 It became the most common coin produced for circulation but was slowly debased in weight and silver content.
Jackknife 
 It is also a dive where the body is bent and then straightened before entering the water and when a person backs up in their vehicle with a trailer attached and it accidentally folds.
Luffa 
 A luffa (also spelled loofah or loofa) is a long thin dried inner part of the fruit of a tropical plant related to the cucumber .
Kimono 
 However, they still wear the kimono for special occasions, such as formal ceremonies, but also for fun and fashion.
Kimono 
 The sleeves of some kimono for women also reach to the ankles, but most kimono sleeves reach to the hips.
Kimono 
 It was during the Heian period that many Japanese people started using the kimono and wore some clothing that were like a kimono.
Kimono 
 The overlap at the front of the robe was longer, the collar was wider, and the robe was shorter as well.
Kimono 
 Noble women wore clothing called jūni hitoe, which means "twelve layers", though the number of layered robes varied.
Kimono 
 These robes were wider, longer and had larger sleeves than the kosode that the common people wore, and could weigh up to 20kg in total.
Kimono 
 The government created laws to stop people from wearing lots of robes at once, and starting with the Muromachi period, women and men began to wear the kosode by itself or with two or three layers, with a small, thin belt called an obi, and for women, red hakama trousers.
Kimono 
 However, ceremonial clothing in the Imperial Court still looked like clothing from previous centuries, and even today, the new Emperor and Empress of Japan are coronated in Heian period clothing.
Kimono 
 People began to experiment with different ways to decorate their clothing, such as embroidery, and experimented with ways of dyeing their clothing.
Kimono 
 This made them look like noble people, so the government introduced laws against commoners wearing certain things to prevent it.
Kimono 
 However, people did not want to give up their beautiful clothes, and instead found different ways of wearing them; a man, for instance, might wear a haori  jacket made out of wool in a plain, boring colour, but line it with a fancy silk fabric.
Kimono 
 This way of thinking about clothing and appearances became known as an aesthetic idea called iki, which is still important to the way people wear kimono today.
Kimono 
 Because of this, the sleeves of the kosode were no longer sewn to the body entirely, and were instead only attached at the shoulder on kosode for women.
Kimono 
 Sleeves also got longer for young women, as did the length of the kosode, which started to be called the kimono sometime in the Edo period.
Kimono 
 The kimono would trail behind someone indoors, but had to be pulled up when going out so it would not become dirty.
Kimono 
 Women started tucking the extra length of their kimono into a hip fold, which became known as the ohashori.
Kimono 
 During World War Two, longer kimono sleeves were seen as very wasteful, and sleeves on kimono were usually shortened, sometimes a lot.
Kimono 
 This new sleeve length lasted, and modern kimono for women are still shorter than they were before the war.
Kimono 
 Kimono are made in different sizes for different people, and are made in different lengths for men and women.
Kimono 
 Kimono for women are much longer than kimono for men, and women fold the kimono at the waist in a tuck to make them the right size.
Kimono 
 The right length for a woman's kimono is usually the same as her height, though people who are very tall can struggle to find kimono that fits them.
Kimono 
 The sleeves on a woman's kimono are not sewn to the body all the way down, and are open at the back.
Kimono 
 The sleeves on a woman's kimono are longer than the sleeves on a man's kimono, and sometimes reach the ankle on kimono for young women.
Kimono 
 Kimono for women can be one solid colour, have a small design, or be decorated in larger, colourful patterns.
Kimono 
 People who are very tall or very heavy can struggle to find a kimono that fits them, and sometimes have kimonos made for them instead.
Kimono 
 Kimonos come in different types for different occasions, and both men and women have formal and casual kimono.
Kimono 
 These are placed on the front of the shoulders, the back of the sleeves, and the centre of the back.
Kimono 
 Kimono with crests have either one, three, or five crests on them - the crest on the centre back, the centre back and the sleeves, or the centre back, the sleeves and the shoulders.