inhabitants. It has the rare and hardly acquired privilege of being everyone's. It is not only the metaphysical city of tolls, hills and monuments but also the town with the highest density of poets and museums in South-Eastern Europe. Former capital of Moldavia, it is a city which has a real vocation for history. Located in the north eastern part of Romania, the cultural center of the country, emanates a cultural vibe all over the surrounding region. It is one of the cleanest cities in Eastern Europe and
war, Russia and Austria formed the Holy Alliance; however, during the Crimean War, Austria threatened war against Russia if they didn’t accept the agreement on the basis on Vienna Four Points, which stated that the guarantee of the independence of Moldavia and Wallachia and the abandonment of the Russian claim to protect the Christian subjects of Turkey. Russia thought that Austria would support her in the Crimean War as they supported Austria in 1848 revolution, but in the end, Austria supported Ottoman
The Great Northern War was fought between Charles XII (Sweden), and Peter the Great (Russia). Before the start of the war, Sweden was very strong. And it occupied large amounts of land. When Peter the Great started his reign for Russia, he could not get to the Black Sea or the Baltic Sea. His goal was to gain access to those two seas. He desired a way to get to those seas, and the way he did it was because he made alliances. He made an alliance with Poland, and Denmark. Because of these alliances
a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct" (Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his attacker(Moldavia). By the end of the year Poe had started to develop gambling
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known, using his patronymic, as Drăculea or Dracula. He was posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler, and was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was a member of the Order of the Dragon, which was founded to protect Christianity in Eastern Europe. Vlad III is revered as
Romanian Culture Introduction Culture can be defined as the way of life associated with a community or a group of people, including their beliefs, traditions, rituals, art, behavior, and thoughts. It describes the “shared patterns of belief, feeling, and adaptation, which people carry in their minds” (Storey 45). Thus, culture can be conceptualized as an organized set of ideas, habits, as well as conditioned responses shared by members of a given society. This paper discusses the concept of culture
Yes, there was a real Dracula, and he was a true prince of darkness. He was Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes, meaning "Vlad the Impaler." The Turks called him Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince." He was the prince of Walachia, but, as legend suggests, he was born in Transylvania, which at that time was ruled by Hungary. Walachia was founded in 1290 by a Transylvanian named Radu Negru, or Rudolph the Black. It was dominated by Hungary until 1330, when it became independent. The
Ferenc Farkas Ferenc Farkas was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, in December 1905. He studied composition with Albert Sikós and Leó Weiner at the Budapest Academy of Music and continued his studies with Ottorino Respighi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Ferenc Farkas was Professor of Composition at the Conservatory of Kolozsvár from 1941 to 1944 and also served as its director during his last year there. In 1949 Farkas was appointed Professor of Composition at the Budapest Academy of Music
of reasons such as profit and pleasure, which may seem as lame reasons when compared to the life and future of a young woman. The article also states that some of these women, coming from countries such as Romania, Russia. Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Moldavia, and Belarus enter Cyprus unaware of what is included in their job descriptions, and are forced into prostitution by traffickers, which is humanly unacceptable and should without a doubt be banned from societies regardless of what kind of profit
The Greek revolution that began in 1821, followed by the war of independence, was the second of the "national revolutions" in the Balkans, against the Ottoman Empire. It ended in 1830, with a partial satisfactory result for the Greeks, who from that moment on became a separate state, liberating themselves from the Ottoman domination. It is necessary to insert the war in a larger context, begun in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna . The Congress, to which the principal European powers participated
They pushed along the Danube from Moldavia, across the Carpathian Mountains from Poland, and Czech lowlands to be met in the center of Hungary. The sheer size of the army was enough to destroy any opponent. The Mongolian expansion was based on the blitzkrieg tactic, and was not intended to
Christina Dao WCSU 109 3/27/14 Lyudmila Pavlichenko Men never see women fight in the war of World War II, every man thought women don’t have the strenght to go in a combat warfare. Well they were wrong, in World War II a woman name Lyudmila Pavlichenko served from 1941-1953 in the Soviet Union army as being assigned to the Red Army. She first had an option to be a nurse when coming into the military. Lyudmila refuses and wants to be a women to put her foot on the battlefield and fight. So she decided
Special Forms of Tourism For the past few decades other forms of tourism, also known as niche tourism, have been becoming more popular, particularly: • Adventure tourism: tourism involving travel in rugged regions, or adventurous sports such as mountaineering and hiking (tramping). • Agritourism: farm based tourism, helping to support the local agricultural economy. • Ancestry tourism: (also known as genealogy tourism) is the travel with the aim of tracing one's ancestry, visiting the birth places
Nicholas I and Nicholas II both struggled with similar uncertainties of a possible revolution. Both came to a conclusion with a strong resemblance, and yet at the same time remained drastically different when their rule ended. While the names may suggest that Nicholas I was the father of Nicholas II, Nicholas I was actually Nicholas II’s great granduncle. The summarized history of their terms below will tell of and compare the Nicholas’ reigns of the Russian monarchy. Nicholas I (1796-1855)
violently. Vlad III’s father was a leader for eight years before he was killed. He was son of Mircea the Elder. His name was Vlad II, or Vlad Dracul. He had two wives in his reign. His first wife’s name is unknown, and his second wife was Cneajna of Moldavia. Vlad the Impaler was a son of one of the mistresses. Vlad had three sons with his wives, and many others with the mistresses. Vlad II was the third son of his family. His eldest brother died in a battle. Then the other older brother died of illness
attended a school in Irvine Scotland for a short period in 1815 then he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until the summer of 1817(Poemhunter). By the summer 1825 Allan celebrated his expansive wealth by purchasing a two-story brick home named Moldavia and at this time Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the University of Virginia in February 1826 to study languages(Poemhunter). The university which was only one year old and the rules of the university we
Long-term tensions arose in Europe beginning with the slow and steady decline of the Ottoman Empire. This lead to a serious diplomatic problem in Europe known as the Eastern Question, in which the major European powers (Great Britain, France and Russia) struggled for control of former Ottoman territories, particularly in the Balkan areas (Gray, 1904, p. 99). As a major power, the Ottoman Empire has played an important role in maintaining the balance of powers in Europe. Larrabee and Lesser (2003)
Bayezid I- (r.1389-1402) Ottoman ruler who started to besiege Constantinople in 1395. The Europeans saw him as a new threat to Christendom, and Hungary’s king led English, French, German, and Balkan knights in a crusade against the Turks. He defeated them at Nicopolis, and moved their capital from Bursa to France. If Bayezid had not defeated the Christians, the Ottoman Empire might not have taken Constantinople. The armies of Timur defeated him near Ankara in 1402 where he was taken prisoner and
Have you ever read a piece of dark literature and felt unpleasant because of what you just read? Do you feel a sense of dread and despair? Do you think to yourself who could write something this dark? Well, there was a gentleman that was known for his dark literature that toyed with people’s emotions and his name was Edgar Allen Poe. Now if you say the name Edgar Allen Poe most people will think about murderers and psychopaths, burials, and people returning from the dead. First let’s find
Edgar Allan Poe was a literary genius of his time. His works may seem eccentric but beneath the words and stories lies a solemn, alone boy whose only way of comfort and relief was through his pen. Of the critical reviews I have studied pertaining to Poe, never has such a varied difference of opinions been presented or suggested towards a writer. It is thought that his life had a major influence on his writing and by reading many of his pieces I agree with that statement. Edgar Poe was born in Boston