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Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...
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Chicago also has a sizable non-Christian population. Non-Christian groups include Irreligious (22%), Judaism (3%), Islam (2%), Buddhism (1%) and Hinduism (1%). [196] Chicago is the headquarters of several religious denominations, including the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is the seat of several ...
Llapusha is one of the parts of Metohija. [1] It is located between Podgor, Podrimlje, Drenica and Llapushnik. [2] It is a hilly region that includes the landscape on the left riverbank of White Drin, from Podgor to the watershed of Mirusha and Klina; spreading from the western rim of southern Drenica, on the left side of the White Drin. [1]
Today in Kosovo, the region is part of Dragash municipality that includes the Albanian inhabited Opoja region. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County [ 1 ] and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units.
Map of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Косово и Метохиja, romanized: Kosovo i Metohija; Albanian: Kosova dhe Metohia), commonly known as Kosovo (Serbian: Косово; Albanian: Kosova) and abbreviated to Kosmet (from Kosovo and Metohija; Serbian: Космет) or KiM (Serbian: КиМ), is an autonomous ...
Kosovo is particularly rich in remote and mountainous landscapes endowed with forests. They are home to a large number of the country's animal species, including many endangered species. Kosovo is one of the rare countries in Europe with populations of rare species, the golden eagle, the brown bear, the grey wolf and the lynx. [17] [18] [19] [20]
[5] [6] The placename Obilić refers to the Serbian national hero Miloš Obilić who killed the Ottoman Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo (1389). In Albanian, the town is known as Obiliq (a transliteration of the Serbian name), while an alternative name (used by Albanians [ 7 ] ) was coined by the Albanological Institute, Kastriot , after ...