13 January 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Vinnytsia is a
city in west-central
Ukraine , located on the banks of the
Southern Bug . It serves as the
administrative center of
Vinnytsia Oblast . It is the largest city in the historic region of
Podillia . It also serves as the administrative center of
Vinnytsia Raion , one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of 356 379 (2025).
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6 April 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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The Roman Ghetto or Ghetto of Rome (
Italian : Ghetto di Roma) was a
Jewish ghetto established in 1555 in the
Rione Sant’Angelo , in
Rome ,
Italy , in the area surrounded by present-day Via del
Portico d’Ottavia ,
Lungotevere dei Cenci , Via del Progresso and Via di Santa Maria del Pianto, close to the River
Tiber and the
Theatre of Marcellus . With the exception of brief periods under
Napoleon from 1808 to 1815 and under the Roman Republics of
1798–99 and
1849 , the ghetto of Rome was controlled by the
papacy until the
capture of Rome in 1870.
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30 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Minsk is the capital and the largest city of
Belarus , located on the
Svislach and the now subterranean
Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of
Minsk Region (
voblasć ) and
Minsk District (
rajon ). As of January 2021, its population was 2 million, making Minsk the
11th most populous city in Europe . Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First documented in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the
Principality of Minsk before being annexed by the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received
town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of the
Minsk Voivodeship , an administrative division of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . It was part of a region annexed by the
Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the
Second Partition of Poland . From 1919 to 1991, after the
Russian Revolution , Minsk was the capital of the
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , in the
Soviet Union . In June 2019, Minsk hosted the
2019 European Games .
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29 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Grodno is a city in western
Belarus . The city is located at the
Neman river, 300 km (186 mi) from Minsk, about 15 km (9 mi) from the
Polish border and 30 km (19 mi) away from
Lithuania . In 2019 the city had 373,547 inhabitants. Grodno is the capital of
Grodno Region and
Grodno District . Since 1945, the city has been a centre of one of the provinces of the
Byelorussian SSR , now of the independent Republic of Belarus. Most of the Polish inhabitants were expelled or fled to Poland in
1944–1946 and
1955–1959 . However nowadays Poles are still the second-most numerous nationality in the city (25%), after Belarusians (60%).
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28 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Mogilev is a city in eastern
Belarus , on the
Dnieper River , about 76 kilometres (47 miles) from the
border with
Russia ‘s
Smolensk Oblast and 105 km (65 miles) from the
border with Russia’s
Bryansk Oblast . As of 2011, its population was 360,918, up from an estimated 106,000 in 1956. It is the administrative centre of the
Mogilev Region and the third largest city in
Belarus .
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27 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Vitebsk or Viciebsk is a city in
Belarus . The capital of the
Vitebsk Region , it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country’s fourth-largest city. It is served by
Vitebsk Vostochny Airport and
Vitebsk Air Base . Vitebsk developed from a river harbor where the Vićba River, from which it derives its name, flows into the larger
Western Dvina , which is spanned in the city by the
Kirov Bridge .
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18 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk, is a city (population 350,600 in 2019) in
Belarus at the border with
Poland opposite the Polish city of
Terespol , where the
Bug and
Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a
border town . It is the capital city of the
Brest Region .
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25 June 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Kėdainiai is one of the oldest
cities in
Lithuania . It is located 51 km (32 mi) north of
Kaunas on the banks of the
Nevėžis River . First mentioned in the 1372
Livonian Chronicle of
Hermann de Wartberge , its population as of 2020 is 23,667. Its old town dates to the 17th century. The city is the administrative centre of the
Kėdainiai District Municipality . The geographical centre of the Lithuanian Republic is in the nearby village of
Ruoščiai , located in the
eldership of
Dotnuva .
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23 June 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Šiauliai is the
fourth largest city in
Lithuania , with a population of 99,462. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of
Šiauliai County . Šiauliai located in eastern part of the northern plateau, Mūša, Dubysa and
Venta River divide. Distance of 210 kilometres (130 miles) to Vilnius, Kaunas – 142 km (88 mi), Klaipėda – 161 km (100 mi), Riga – 128 km (80 mi), Kaliningrad – 250 km (155 mi).
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