Scotland Writers and Poets
Iain M. Banks (born 1954) Iain Menzies Banks was born in 1954 in Dunfermline to a sailor. Among other things, he studied English and philosophy in Stirling and now travels…
Category: Europe
England Castles, Palaces, Walls and Towers
Tower of London The complex of several buildings was erected along the Thames in the Middle Ages. The tower was used as a fortress, armory and as a dungeon. In…
Travel to Kosovo
Landmarks Kosovo is not a classic travel destination. The cities, with the exception of Prizren and possibly Peja, offer few tourist highlights. However, in recent years Kosovo has increasingly developed…
Riga Travel Guide
Riga is northern Paris. Riga is a lovely weekend destination with an affordable price level and short distances. Experience the largest city in the Baltics The capital of Latvia, Riga,…
Kiev Travel Guide
Kiev surprises the tourist with its beauty: pompous sights, enchanting Monasteries and the exoticism of Eastern Europe leave their mark on the visitor. KIEV AS A DESTINATION A different city…
Hotels in Barcelona
Here you should stay in Barcelona According to DigoPaul, Barcelona is a very popular tourist destination, but the city is also known for its many conferences. This means that many…
Religion in United Kingdom
According to Countryaah data, the first residents of the island of Great Britain were paleolithic hunters who followed herds of wild animals. After the ice age, some farmers began to…
Religion in Ukraine
According to Countryaah data, in the 9-12th century, most of present-day Ukraine was subject to Kiev, which at the same time had a number of alliances with the Slavic peoples…
Religion in Switzerland
According to Countryaah data, Celtic tribes – of which the most important of them, the Helles, settled between the Alps and the Jurassic Mountains – inhabited Switzerland’s present territory before…
Religion in Sweden
Population During the 2010s, Sweden’s population has increased by about 1 percent per year, mainly as a result of growing net immigration. Internationally, the Swedish mortality rate in different age…
Religion in Spain
Population According to Countryaah data, the country’s population is unevenly distributed. Large population concentrations are found in the coastal zones of the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay, along the…
Religion in Slovenia
According to Countryaah data, one of the Slavic population groups, the Slovenes, settled in the 6th century possibly in the area that is today Slovenia. It was subjugated to Bavaria…
Religion in Slovakia
Population In 2019, Slovakia had a population density of 116 residents per km2. The largest concentrations are found in Bratislava and in the area east and southeast thereof. In 2019,…
Religion in Serbia
1980 Tito dies According to Countryaah data, after Tito’s death in April 1980, power passed to a collegiate presidential council consisting of one representative from each republic and autonomous province,…
Religion in San Marino
According to Countryaah data, archaeological findings point to the fact that today the territory of the Republic of San Marino, located between the Italian provinces of Romana and Marca, has…
Religion in Russia
Population The Russian Federation has a population density of 8 residents per km2, but the population is unevenly distributed; the northern two-thirds of the country has only 0.9 residents per…
Religion in Romania
Population Romania has a population density of 82 residents per km 2. The most important population concentrations are the Bucharest area and the country’s northeastern parts. In 2019, 54 percent…
Religion in Portugal
Population Most of Portugal’s population lives in the coastal districts, especially from Setúbal and the north. About 75 percent of the population lives in cities, of which the capital Lisbon…
Religion in Poland
According to Countryaah data, the name Poland derives from the group of Poles who cultivated the land – pole. They lived in the Warta Valley, which afterwards became known as…
Religion in Norway
Population The population development in Norway has many similarities with the Swedish one. According to Countryaah data, large emigration during the late 19th century slowed the population growth, which again…
Religion in Northern Macedonia
Population At the country’s most recent census in 2002, Macedonians were the country’s largest population group (64 percent), followed by Albanians (24 percent), Turks (4 percent) and Roma (3 percent).…
Religion in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is traditionally a Christian country, where both Protestantism and Catholicism have been represented for hundreds of years. Today, the country is also characterized by a large Muslim population,…
Religion in Montenegro
Podgorica Podgorica, 1946-92 Titograd, capital of Montenegro; 139,400 residents (2003), most Montenegrin, but with an Albanian and a small Turkish minority. According to Countryaah data, Podgorica is a major industrial…
Religion in Monaco
Population Only just over 15 percent of residents are monegas, 47 percent are French and 16 percent are Italian. The largest other groups are Greeks, Swiss and British. Check allcitypopulation.com…
Religion in Moldova
According to Countryaah data, the Moldavians are descended from Romanized peoples from the south of Eastern Europe. Chronicle writer Jon Skilitsa this year mentions 976 volojo people as Moldavian ancestors.…
Religion in Malta
Population The residents are called Maltese and are a mixed people with elements mainly Arabs and Italians. There is also a small British minority. Malta has a population density of…
Religion in Luxembourg
According to Countryaah data, in 1991, a major financial scandal erupted when the international commercial bank BCCI cracked. It had its headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, but its European…
Religion in Lithuania
Foreign Policy There is broad agreement on the major lines of Lithuanian foreign policy, which is NATO membership, EU membership and other European structures, and a particularly close relationship with…
Religion in Liechtenstein
Population The actual citizens count their ancestry from the Alemans, a Germanic tribe that took possession of the region around 500. About 90 percent are Roman Catholics. The population has…
Religion in Latvia
According to Countryaah data, the first residents of present-day Latvia were nomadic tribes of hunters, fishermen and collectors who emigrated to the forests of the Baltic coast after the glaciers…
Religion in Kosovo
According to Countryaah data, Kosovo is a secular state. 95.6 percent of the population are Muslims, 2.2 percent are Roman Catholic and 1.5 percent are Orthodox Christians. Religion Differences Religious…
Religion in Italy
According to Countryaah data, Christianity is the most widespread religion in Italy, and Catholicism is the most widespread direction within Christianity. A large majority of the people of Italy are…
Religion in Ireland
According to Countryaah data, about 90 percent of the population of Ireland belongs to the Catholic Church, but there are also Anglicans (3 percent) and other Christians (1 percent), including…
Religion in Iceland
Population In 2019, Iceland’s birth and death figures were 12 and 7 per thousand respectively, which gives a natural population growth of 0.5 percent. The average life expectancy in the…
Religion in Hungary
Population According to Countryaah data, Hungary has a population density of 107 residents per km 2 with the largest population concentrations in the Budapest, Miskolc and Szeged areas. Through the…
Religion in Greece
According to Countryaah data, in the 5th-3rd, millennium BCE, the Balkan Peninsula was inhabited by sailors who came from Asia. central Greece and Crete. In the 2nd millennium BCE, Indo-European…
Religion in Germany
Population The population density in 2019 was 232 residents per km 2, with the highest concentration by far in the Rhine-Ruhr area. According to Countryaah data, high density is also…
Religion in France
Population According to Countryaah data, France’s average population density is 121 residents per km2. About one fifth of the residents live in the Paris metropolitan area. Other densely populated areas…
Religion in Finland
Wartime and Peace End According to Countryaah data, the great importance of the “Rödmyll government” was due to the fact that the Finns were able to meet the Soviet attack…
Religion in Estonia
According to Countryaah data, despite its historical and political destiny with its neighboring countries in the south – Lithaun and Latvia – the Estonian people have always been characterized by…