The oldest architectural works in Spain date back to the megalithic culture, approximately 3000 BC. n. and. From this period until the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula we are going to find very interesting finds and settlements of what has been generically called the Iberian or Iberian civilization. However, these are probably not the architectural monuments that…
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Ukraine History
Origins The first settlers of Ukraine were the Scythians, who settled on the north coast of the Black Sea around the 7th century BC until they were exterminated by the Sarmatians in the 4th century BC. During part of the Middle Ages, the Ukrainian territory was populated by Slavic tribes, of Indo-European origin. Later it was taken by the Vikings from Sweden, who would found…
Spain Government and Politics Part 2
Power of attorney The Judicial Power of Spain is the set of Courts and Tribunals, made up of Judges and Magistrates, who have the power to administer justice on behalf of the King. Exclusively to said Courts and Tribunals corresponds the exercise of jurisdictional power, judging and executing what is judged. In exercise of this…
Ukraine Human and Physical Geography
Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south. The capital is the city of Kiev (Kyiv), the largest in the country. The name of the country comes from the term krajina, which in Slavic can have two meanings: “border…
Netherlands History Part II
Losgo, those of Felipe II of Spain to reinforce the religious persecution of the Protestants and his efforts to centralize the government, justice and taxes made him unpopular and led to a revolt. The Dutch fought for their independence from Spain, which led to the Eighty Years War (1568 – 1648). Seven rebellious provinces were united in the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and formed…
Spain Government and Politics Part 1
According to the classification of government systems in the world, Spain has the form of parliamentary monarchy, since its legislative power (represented in the figure of the Cortes Generales), exercises most of the legislative and government responsibility. It is a parliamentary system because after the legislative elections which are held every four years, the monarch must…
Spain History Part 5
Transition to democracy Main article: Spanish transition After several years of absolutist dictatorship under Franco, the 20 of November of 1975, the “generalissimo” died, initiating a process of transition towards democracy which lasted until the rise of the socialist Felipe González to power in 1982. The transition marked the return of the monarchy to Spain, with the rise to power of Juan Carlos…
Netherlands State Overview
Netherlands. (in Dutch: Nederland). It is a European country that together with the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As its name indicates, the country’s territory is made up of lowlands of which approximately one third is located at or below sea level. [1] . It is often known by metonymy after its most influential or relevant historical…
Spain History Part 4
When the last king of the Habsburg dynasty died without issue, Carlos II, he was succeeded by the grandson of the King of France, Louis XIV (whose mother was Spanish and whose wife was also Spanish), succeeded him on the throne. As a consequence of the French Revolution, as a country located in Europe according to POLITICSEZINE, Spain declared…
Netherlands Relief and Hydrography
Relief The relief of the Netherlands is falsely uniform. It is a large floodplain in which alluvial debris has been deposited from some of the most important rivers in Europe, and the demudation of the glacial moraines that covered the north of the continent during the last ice age. But these deposits are not uniform,…