26 June 2019 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait, UNESCO World Heritage
Reading Time: 11 minutesMustafa Kemal Atatürk during a coffee and smoking break (1936)
© Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a
Turkish field marshal (
Mareşal),
revolutionary statesman,
author, and
founder of the
Republic of Turkey, serving as its first
President from 1923 until his death in 1938. Ideologically a
secularist and
nationalist,
his policies and theories became known as
Kemalism.
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27 November 2013 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks
Reading Time: 7 minutesLincoln Memorial by night © flickr.com – CrashingWaves/cc-by-2.0
Washington, D.C., formally the
District of Columbia and commonly referred to as
Washington,
“the District”, or simply
D.C., is the capital of the United States. The signing of the
Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a
capital district located along the
Potomac River on the country’s
East Coast. As permitted by the
U.S. Constitution, the District is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
United States Congress and is therefore not a part of any U.S. state. The states of
Maryland and
Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the preexisting settlements of
Georgetown and
Alexandria; however,
Congress returned the Virginia portion in 1846. Named in honor of
George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. Congress created a
single municipal government for the whole District of Columbia after the
American Civil War.
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