Vacation in Croatia The almost 2,000 kilometers long Croatian Adriatic coast inspires with turquoise water and white pebble beaches. More than 1,000 islands cavort here in the Mediterranean Sea, the best known are Rab and Brac. One of the most beautiful coastal landscapes in Europe can be found in Dalmatia, which combines high mountain ranges…
Category: Belgium
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Mass Media in Western Europe
As part of European continent defined by Countryaah, Western Europe includes Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, and Switzerland. This page describes major mass media, including newspapers, radio stations and televisions within these countries. Mass media in Austria Press The press has long traditions in Austria, the first newspaper was published in 1615. From 1795 there…
Belgium Arts and Literature
Literature, drama and theater in the Dutch language From the Middle Ages there are songs (among other things in the Antwerp songbook, published 1544), ballads, knight novels, fables, animal poetry, legends, dramas, farces, mystery games, miracle games and didactic literature preserved. Culture flourished during this time, mainly in the southern parts of the language area….
Belgium Recent History
In 1939 with the arrival of World War II, history repeated itself but after two weeks of struggle, Leopold III, then sovereign of Belgium, decided to end the resistance. This decision was not in the least shared by the people so much so that at the end of the war, with a new defeat of…