Yearbook 2010 Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to COUNTRYAAH, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a population of 3.324 million (2018). The Bosnian Serbs leader during the 1992–95 war, Radovan Karadžić, gave his first speech in the trial against him, which began last autumn in the UN War Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Karadžić insisted on running his…
Category: Europe
MEDITERRANEAN CULTIVATION ZONE
The Mediterranean cultivation is characterized by a variety of heat-loving crops, its focus is on fruit and vegetable cultivation and special crops. Traditionally, Mediterranean cultivation is defined by the distribution of the olive tree, which, as a subtropical plant, requires an average annual temperature of 15 ° C to 22 ° C and an annual rainfall of between 500 and 700 millimeters. Since the olive tree is very sensitive to frost, its cultivation limit is already in the south of France.
A second group of key plants form the citrus or citrus fruits, but the similarly high heat demands such as the olive tree pose, with their moisture requirements from 1,200 to 2,000 millimeters of annual precipitation in many places only irrigated cultivated can be. For vegetables, the tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers have a special position. The most important rice-growing region in Europe, Northern Italy, is also located in this zone. One of the most important fruit plants on earth is the grapevine. It requires an annual mean temperature of only 10 ° C to 12 ° C – which is why it can be found far beyond the borders of this zone in Germany, Austria and France -, a vegetation period of 180 to 200 days and at least 19 ° C during maturity.
In Europe, cork oaks are mainly grown in Portugal and Spain, with further plantations in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
The tobacco that existed in earlier centuries in Germany even greater extent, is still found throughout the Mediterranean region of Portugal to the Aegean. However, it is only of economic importance in Greece, Italy and Bulgaria. In an international comparison, soybeans and cotton are only grown in Europe in small quantities, although in Italy they have recently been growing; other larger soy producers are Russia and Ukraine. In Europe, cotton is of economic importance only in Greece; only small quantities are cultivated in Spain. Date palms are only grown south of the Mediterranean. Plant production in the entire Mediterranean region is supplemented by keeping sheep, but also cattle, pigs and goats. For more information about the continent of Europe, please check thesciencetutor.org.
Belgium 2010
Yearbook 2010 Belgium. In Belgium, again, an acute government crisis ensued, which did not receive any solution during the year. In April, Prime Minister Yves Leterme resigned, for the third time since the 2007 election. The five-party coalition he led collapsed due to disagreement over constituency in the Brussels region. It is a long-contested issue…
Belarus 2010
Yearbook 2010 Belarus. On repeated occasions at the beginning of the year, opposition activists were arrested, and a regime critic was sentenced in May to several years in prison. Independent journalists and writers were pressured, as were teachers who were members of opposition parties. In the local elections in April, only 360 opposition candidates were…
Austria 2010
Austria is a landlocked country located in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Italy. The terrain of Austria is mostly mountainous due to the Alps in the west and north of the country. The highest mountain peak in Austria is Grossglockner at 12,457 feet. The climate of…
Andorra 2010
Yearbook 2010 Andorra. According to softwareleverage, the Pirineus-La Seu d’Urgell airport in Catalonia, northern Spain, was reopened in June. It lies about a mile from the border with Andorra and is expected to give a boost to the country’s tourism industry. More than 11 million visitors, not least ski tourists, already visit annually to Andorra,…
Albania 2010
Yearbook 2010 Albania. Political stalemate prevailed in Albania at the beginning of the year as the opposition boycotted Parliament, thus hindering important reform efforts. The Socialist Party and its allies demanded recalculation of the votes in the parliamentary elections, held in June 2009, an election they lost by barely a margin. Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s…
Aland 2010
Yearbook 2010 Åland gained ministers when the members of the provincial government changed their titles in March, following a decision in Finland’s highest court. The head of government, however, is still called a country council, a title that has existed since 1922, the year after the introduction of self-government. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt made…
Europe History
According to Countryaah, Europe comprises a total area of 10,498,000 km2 and has a population of 744.7 million. European – Ethnic Relations Europe has been populated by various prehistoric human types. It is likely that the first, Homo erectus, immigrated from North Africa about 750,000 years ago. The oldest finds are from the caves at…
Roman Empire
Roman Empire, Latin Imperium Romanum. The Roman Empire was at its greatest under Trajan (98–117 AD) all countries of the wider Mediterranean area and reached on the Rhine with southwest Germany and parts of the Rhineland and on the Danube with Dacia (Romania) far into the European continent, included England (not Scotland) and submitted in…
Economy and Transportation of Vienna, Austria
Vienna, the federal capital of Austria, also its smallest federal state. The city lies on the Danube. In2019, 1.89 million people live inan area of 415 km 2. The mayor of Vienna is also the governor of the state (since 2018 Michael Ludwig, * 1961, SPÖ). Vienna lies at the foot of the Vienna Woods,…
Balearic Islands, Spain
Balearic Islands, Spanish Islas Baleares, Catalan Illes Balears, archipelago in the western Mediterranean, at the same time Spanish autonomous region and province (Baleares), 4,992 km 2 in size, (2020) 1.2 million residents; The capital is Palma de Mallorca. The group consists of Mallorca, Menorca, Cabrera, Ibiza and Formentera (the last two and some smaller islands…