According to extrareference, the largest island of the Seychelles is Mahe, it is home to about 90% of all the inhabitants of the republic, as well as the most modern international Seychelles airport and the capital of the state – Victoria. Victoria is one of the smallest capitals in the world, and is also the only real city in the country. All other localities in the Seychelles are villages. The…
Read MoreMorocco Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort
Summer is MAZAGAN!!! The Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort in El Jadida has 250 hectares of land and is located close to an amazingly beautiful beach. Here you will find excellent climatic conditions throughout the year. This resort hotel rightfully boasts an incredible amount of activities and entertainment for both adults and children, a variety of world-class restaurants and bars, spa services, a casino, its own nightclub, and endless sports…
Read MoreAngola Geography
Vast region of Africa, which constitutes, by extension and development possibilities, the most important of the Portuguese possessions. Its name derives from the ancient indigenous kingdom of Angola, on the coast of which the city of Loanda was founded in 1576. Its geographical coordinates are: 4 ° 20 ‘and 18 ° 2’ lat. S.; 11 ° 40 ‘and 24 ° long. E. It extends for 1600 km. (including the territory…
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Southern African state , washed west by the Atlantic Ocean. It borders to the North and NE with the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the East with Zambia, to the South with Namibia. It includes a coastal strip to the North of the mouth of the Congo River, the so-called Cabinda exclave, separated from the rest of the state by the interposition of a stretch of Congolese territory. Physical characteristics…
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According to PROZIPCODES, Angola’s internal political life as well as international relations are strongly linked to oil revenues. While internally the proceeds of extraction have favored the development of an economic nationalism and of a bourgeois class linked to political power, in the international context the oil wealth has served to strengthen the image of Angola, favoring – after a first phase revolutionary – good international relations with all the…
Read MoreAngola Human and Economic Geography
HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY South-western African state, washed by the Atlantic Ocean. The population, which has grown at a rapid pace (2.8 % per year in the period 2000-2005), in 2005 amounts, according to an estimate, to 15,941,000 residents, Of which just over 30 % live in urban areas. The only real city is the capital Luanda (2.75 million residents, according to 2005 estimates); notable was the modernization process that…
Read MoreAngola Human and Economic Geography 1998
Population In 1998, according to one estimate, the population of the Angolan republic amounted to 12,092. 000 residents and it tended to grow at a very fast pace. The pressure on resources is very strong and the level of economic and social development is particularly low: it is estimated that more than 60 % of the population lives below the poverty line. The worsening of the social and economic crisis…
Read MoreAngola in the 1990’s
The changed international order that occurred with the end of the United States-Soviet Union bipolarity laid in Angola, as in many African countries governed by one-party regimes, the basis for a possible evolution in a democratic sense. The final outcome of this process depended on long-term factors linked to the legacy of colonial domination, the strategic role of the state within its regional context, the complex interaction between nationalistic movements,…
Read MoreAngola Modern History
According to LOVERISTS, the coastal part of the indigenous state of Angola was occupied in 1574 by Paolo Diaz de Novaes, grandson of the famous Bartholomew, in the name of the king of Portugal. This occupation was a consequence of the ancient relations existing between the neighboring kingdom of Congo and the Portuguese: since Diaz, sent to settle, in 1558, a dispute that arose between the sovereign of Congo and…
Read MoreAngola Population and Economy 1970
According to LOCALBUSINESSEXPLORER, the Angolan population at the 1970 census was made up of 5,673,046 residents, Of which about 5.2% of European origin, with an annual increase rate that on average is 1.5% and therefore relatively low compared to neighboring countries. The average density is 4.6 residents per km 2 and reaches its maximum values especially on the coast and inland exclusively along the Benguela railway line, in correspondence with…
Read MoreAngola Population and Economy 1988
The Angolan population is 9,385,725 residents (1988 estimate), of which about 30% live in urban areas (14% in 1970). The most important ethnic group is the Ovimbundu (38%), followed by the Kimbundu (19%), the Kongo (11%) and the Lunda (7%); the Portuguese presence has weakened considerably after independence, while the Cubans are more than 30,000. In Angola also live 100,000 refugees, mostly from Namibia. According to INTERSHIPPINGRATES, the capital Luanda…
Read MoreAngola Recent History
Ancient Kingdom subject, with the name of Ngola, to Mwani Congo, to. it was discovered in its coastal part and together with the Congo river between 1482 and 1486 by Diogo Cão, squire of King John II of Portugal. He was followed by Gonçalo de Sousa, with an official mission and, therefore, the first missionaries. The baptism of the sovereign and the relative official conversion of the people, the erection…
Read MoreAngola Relief, Climate, and Continental Waters
According to GETZIPCODES, Angola includes a part of the great South African plateau and a part of the Longo basin. The plateau, consisting mainly of schists and granites, largely covered by a blanket of red laterite and, in eastern Angola, by arenaceous sedimentations, probably Triassic, and by Pleistocene and recent alluvial and eluvial deposits, lowers slowly towards the east, rising instead in the center up to 2620 m. (M. Moco).…
Read MoreEgypt Population and Language
Population Among the Neolithic and Aeneolithic residents of the Nile Valley (pre-dynastic tombs) the anthropologist GE Smith described as prevalent a type he called proto-Egyptian, small in stature (163 cm on average), with an elongated, narrow and rather high skull. ; the hair was straight or wavy, dark brown in color like the irises, the skin was brownish, the face was oval, with large eyes and a raised nose and…
Read MoreEthiopia Exploration Between 1882 and 1929
In the years 1882-1883 the commercial trips of the French Paulo Soleillet in the village Galla up to Caffa (Kafā) were made, the one not before attempted by Count P. Antonelli (v.) From Assab (‛Asab) to the Scioa through the Aussa, while with the attempt to penetrate Ogaden starting from Pietro Sacconi’s Harar, tragically concluded (12 August 1883), the reconnaissance of internal Somalia begins, destined to enter the orbit of…
Read MoreTunisia Cinema
Tunisian cinematography – which in the twenties of the twentieth century had its pioneer in Albert Shammama Shikly and that from the sixties, and more specifically from the eighties, occupied a leading role in the history of the seventh art thanks to filmmakers attentive to film language as with social issues – it maintained its prestige even in the early 21st century period. Established authors, who have increased their filmographies…
Read MoreAlgeria Cinematography
Cinema in Algeria, with the exception of the images made in Algiers at the end of the 19th century. by Félix Mesguich on behalf of the Lumière brothers, it was born in the 1950s, in the period of the war of liberation from French colonization, as a document of the struggle of a people for independence (achieved in 1962). The French René Vautier, who supported the Front de libération nationale…
Read MoreMorocco Cinematography
Moroccan cinematography was born in the late 1960s, preceded by some significant events: the documentary images shot by the Lumière brothers’ operators and by Félix Mesguich in 1896; the opening of the first laboratory, Cinéphane, in Casablanca in 1939; the foundation of the Center cinématographique marocain (CCM) in 1944, an institution of colonial origin destined for the production of documentaries, of the newsreel al-Aḫbār al-Maġribiyya (Chronicles of Maghreb, from 1958…
Read MoreSouth Africa Before Anglo-Boer War
The Hottentots (farmers) and the Bushmen (hunters and gatherers), collectively referred to as the khoisan, are considered indigenous peoples in the strict sense; their culture remained backward and they were overwhelmed by the Bantu emigration from the N and, subsequently, from the arrival of the first Europeans on the extreme southern coast. Bantu nuclei, ancestors of the current Sotho, descended from today’s Zimbabwe towards the S starting from the century.…
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Salé Salé [sa le], Arabic Sala, Sla, city in Morocco with (2019) 978 000 residents. Northern neighboring city of the Moroccan capital Rabat and the administrative seat of the Salé prefecture. Tangier Tangier, port and trading city in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar, with (2019) 1.1 million residents. Tourism is of particular importance. In the walled old town (medina) are the Great Mosque (17th century) and the former sultan’s…
Read MoreTravel to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is an irresistibly beautiful country that seduces its visitors to return time and time again. In the game-rich country, there are mainly two nature experiences that stand out: Victoria Falls and the Mana Pools National Park. Visit campingship for Zimbabwe Geography. See Zimbabwe Travel Population: 15.2 million Capital: Harare Language: English and various Bantu languages Although most of Zimbabwe consists of savannah, there are actually a surprising amount of mahogany,…
Read MoreSudan Human Geography
According to threergroup, the population of Sudan forms an ethnic mosaic among the richest and most composite in Africa; the various minorities make up almost a quarter of the entire population (23.3%). In particular, it is the result of the contact, which took place already in prehistoric times, of black people – originating in the country – and of the arrival of white people, europoids; The Semitic contributions have been…
Read MoreCentral African Republic History and Culture
History The territory of the Central African Republic was conquered by France after 1890 and administered from 1910 as the Ubangi-Shari colony in the Federation of French Equatorial Africa (since 1946 overseas territory within the French Union). After 1945, the Catholic clergyman Barthélémy Boganda (* 1910, † 1959) made a name for himself as a political leader and after granting autonomy on December 1, 1958, gave the country the name…
Read MoreEgypt History Timeline
Egypt is a country in North Africa. The Sinai Peninsula is part of Egypt, but forms a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 km², Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south and the Gaza Strip, and Israel to the east. The northern coast borders the Mediterranean Sea, the eastern coast the Red Sea. Egypt is one of the most densely populated areas in…
Read MoreBest Travel Time and Climate for Ethiopia
Best travel time The best time to visit Ethiopia is during the dry season. But the festivals in Ethiopia are also a big attraction, so that regardless of the weather, a trip around Meskel or Timkat can be recommended. If you want to travel more economically, you should visit the country in the off-season. Although Ethiopia is essentially close to the equator, the country as a whole does not have…
Read MoreKenya Overview
Kenya, officially Swahili Jamhuri ya Kenya, English Republic of Kenya [r ɪ p ʌ bl ɪ k ɔ f kenjə, too – ki ː njə], German Republic of Kenya, country in East Africa with (2018) 51.4 million Residents; The capital is Nairobi. Location Kenya borders South Sudan and Ethiopia to the north, Somalia and the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the south and Uganda to the west. The…
Read MoreTunisia Children and School
Are there any kindergartens in Tunisia? There are only a few kindergartens in Tunisia that look after preschool children. This is also down to the families, because many women stay at home and look after the children. When they are working, aunts, grandmothers, cousins or other female family members often take on the task of looking after the very young. However, there are some private institutions, which mostly serve to…
Read MoreStudy Life Sciences Abroad
“Organic” is in. Not only as a seal of quality on food: When it comes to generating alternative energies or developing new drugs, the knowledge of bioscientists is in demand. Life sciences? A whole new field of research and science has emerged under this heading . With regard to the newly created courses of study such as biochemistry , biotechnology , bioinformatics , biomedicine or neuroscience , a simple biology…
Read MoreStudy Bioinformatics Abroad
Scientific progress without information technology seems unthinkable today. Current research in the fields of biology , biochemistry and biotechnology generates incredibly large amounts of data. Their evaluation can only be done with the help of special computer programs. What do bioinformaticians do? Bioinformaticians work at this interface between biology and computer science . You design databases and algorithms to manage and process data. Thanks to their work, it became possible,…
Read MoreChildren Education in Nigeria
Nigeria, on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, is one of Africa’s largest economies. Yet almost half the population lives below the poverty line. The country has been heavily exposed to conflicts, such as the Biafra War in the 1960s and in the 2010s the terrorist group Boko Haram and other internal battles. Children are hard hit by crises and conflicts and girls have been particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.…
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