The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. The most severely affected areas were in the western and southern parts of Ireland—where the Irish language was dominant—hence the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as an Drochshaol, which literally translates to “the bad life” and loosely translates to “the hard times”. read more…
The Borsig Villa Reiherwerder is a former country house belonging to the Borsig family of Berlin entrepreneurs. It is located on the 12.37-hectareReiherwerder peninsula on the northwest shore of Lake Tegel, which is part of the Berlin district of Reinickendorf. Today, along with the neighboring buildings, it belongs to the Foreign Service Academy of the Federal Foreign Office, where all members of the middle, senior, and higher Foreign Service have been trained since the beginning of 2006. The villa itself serves as a guest house for the Federal Foreign Office. Directly north of the villa, facing the water, is a neo-Baroque garden (Garden monument of the Borsig Country House). The entire grounds are not open to the public. read more…
Charles Square (Czech: Karlovo nám?stí; German: Karlsplatz) is a city square in the New Town of Prague, Czech Republic. At roughly 80,550 m² it is one of the largest squares in the world and was the largest town square of the medievalEurope. Founded in 1348 as the main square of the New Town by Charles IV, it was known as Dobyt?í trh (Cattle Market) from the 15th century and finally named after its founder in 1848. The central portion of the square was turned into a park in the 1860s. read more…
Agios Nikolaos (meaning Saint Nicholas) is a village located 110 kilometers south-east of Thessaloniki on the Chalkidiki peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. The village Agios Nikolaos itself is 2 km inland from the Singitic Gulf. However, its territory is quite extensive. To the north-east it borders the village of Pyrgadikia at Salonikiou Beach (8 km from Agios Nikolaos). To the north it borders the village of Metangitsi. In the west and south-west it is neighboring the village of Nikiti (9 km from Agios Nikolaos). To the south it borders the village of Sarti at Armenistis Beach (28 km from Agios Nikolaos). read more…
Café New York is a magnificent coffeehouse from the Gründerzeit era in Budapest. In the early 1890s, the New York Life Insurance Company had a magnificent building constructed at the current address of Erzsébet körút 9–11 in Budapest’s seventh district (Erzsébetváros). The café (Hungarian: New York kávéház) was and still is located on the ground floor and basement. It opened on October 23, 1894, and survived wars and regime changes largely unscathed. After a years-long renovation hiatus beginning in 2001, the café reopened on May 5, 2006. read more…
Nea Poteidaia is a town in the municipality of Nea Propontida in Chalkidiki, Greece. The location is the only land access to the Kassandra Peninsula. Built on the site of the ancient city of Potidaea, 33 kilometers south-west of Polygyros, it was re-founded in 1922 by Greek refugees from Platanos in Eastern Thrace and Kalolimnos (now called Imrali) which remained under Turkish rule. Today it has a population of 1,543 (2011) and a mainly tourist destination for visitors seeking beaches and wildlife. read more…
Polygyros is a town and municipality in Central Macedonia, Greece. It is the capital of Chalkidiki. Polygyros town (pop. 7,779 at the 2021 census) is built in the shape of an amphitheatre on a plateau on the south west side of the mountain Cholomontas. It is south of Greek National Road 16 (Thessaloniki – Arnaia). Polygyros is located SE of Thessaloniki, NE of Nea Moudania, NW of Sithonia and SW of Arnaia. The municipal unit (the municipality before 2011) has a population of 11,386 inhabitants (2021) and a land area of 470.933 km². Other large communities in the municipal unit are Ólynthos (pop. 1,053), Taxiárchis (742), and Vrástama (944). read more…
Neos Marmaras (New Marmara) is a town on the Sithonia peninsula, in the Chalkidiki peninsula, Macedonia, Greece. In 2021, Neos Marmaras had 3,038 permanent residents; however, the summer-time population has been estimated at 20,000. The main industries are tourism, agriculture (olives, wine, and honey), and fishing. Situated on three shoreline hills, below the two mountains, Itamos and Dragoudeli, Neos Marmaras is located 125 kilometres (78 mi) from Thessaloniki, 55 kilometres (34 mi) from Poligyros and 9 kilometres (6 mi) from Elia (Nikiti). read more…
