Daily Archives: April 8, 2013

Alba (Britain)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by davidseurope

ALBA (Britain)    Or Alban or Albany… …from the Gaelic word ALBAINN for the island of Britain, a word that later became restricted in meaning to the lands north of the Forth-Clyde valley.  It was probably related to the Greek and … Continue reading →

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Alba (Romania)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by davidseurope

ALBA (Romania)  Județ (county) in west central Romania, drained by the River Mures, a tributary of the Tisza and named after its capital, Alba Iulia – Gyulafehérvár (Magyar) or Karlsburg (Ger) – which is northwest of Sibiu.  A part of … Continue reading →

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Álava

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ÁLAVA   ARABA (Basque). The southernmost and largest, though least populous, of the three provinces that make up the BASQUE COUNTRY (Pais Vasco or Euskadi), Álava is partly mountainous, though with fertile valleys.   The greater part of the province lies in the … Continue reading →

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Alania

Posted on April 8, 2013 by davidseurope

ALANIA In 1994 a new Constitution for the Russian Republic of NORTH OSSETIA, in the Caucasus, named the republic Alania, the Ossetes being descended from the Alans, who had once dominated the steppes.

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Åland Islands

Posted on April 8, 2013 by davidseurope

ÅLAND ISLANDS    AHVENANMAA; Aaland Islands (in English, pronounced “Awland”). Group of approximately 6500 islands, 80 of them inhabited lying between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea and belonging to Finland. They belonged to Sweden until 1809, when they were ceded, … Continue reading →

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