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Bucharest - The capital and largest city of Romania, in the southeast part of the country on a tributary of the Danube River. Founded in the 14th century, it soon became a fortress and a center for trade between Wallachia and Constantinople. City (pop., 1997: 2,057,512), capital of Romania. Excavations have revealed evidence of prehistoric settlement. The site gained importance when the rulers of Walachia moved there in the 14th century. Vlad III built a fortress there in the 15th century to ward off invading Turks; they eventually took it and made it their Ottoman Walachian capital in 1659. In the 19th century civic unrest helped force the union of Walachia and Moldavia, and Bucharest became the capital of the new Romanian state in 1862. Occupied by the Soviet army after World War II, it came under communist control. During the 1980s it was the scene of political demonstrations against the government of Nicolae Ceausescu that resulted in his overthrow and execution.
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Date Found: January 27, 2010
Date Produced: December 02, 2009
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Auburn is a city in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,350 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Nemaha County[3]. The City of Auburn is actually an incorporation of two towns. Calvert and Sheridan combined to form Auburn in 1882, in part to have the voting ...
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Burma expedition 2007. Religionist monks and Asiatic girls and boys from Kaw Thaung on the Burma / Siam adjoin and underwater footage from scuba match in the Mergui Archipelago.   Featuring different leatherneck spirit including whale shark and eagle ray at Unfortunate Pitching, ...
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February 23, 2010
Cartagena is in the Murcia region of Spain. Cartagena is the main Seaport of the Murcia region. It has 214,000 inhabitants so it???s the second most populated municipality of the Region. Cartagena concentrates an artistic legacy that summarizes 2000 years of Spanish History, being inhabited by ...
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February 23, 2010
A peninsula extending into the Pacific Ocean from the south end of the U.S. state of California, Baja California provides some of Mexico’s most dramatic sea and landscapes. This includes everything from vast and remote deserts, dormant volcanoes and wonderful old mission towns. The first ...
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February 23, 2010
Riyadh (ar-Riyad) is the capital of Saudi Arabia, located squarely in the center of the Nejd. Known by local wags as the Dead Center of the Kingdom, Riyadh is the most straight-laced of the Kingdom’s big cities. With most forms of entertainment banned, few sights of interest and a brutal ...
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