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The area of the river basin is 4,626 km 2 (1,786 sq mi). [2] Its average discharge at the mouth is 31 m 3 /s (1,100 cu ft/s). [3] The Timok Valley is known for the most important Vlach population in Eastern Serbia. Its name stems from antiquity, in Latin it was known as Timacus and in Ancient Greek Timachos", Τίμαχος. [4]
Ruse (also transliterated as Rousse, Russe; Bulgarian: Русе) is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria.Ruse is in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, approximately 67 km (42 mi) south of Bucharest, Romania's capital, 172 km (107 mi) from Varna, and 249 km (155 mi) from the capital Sofia.
According to Institute for Balkan Studies, the Shopluk was the mountainous area on the borders of Serbia, Bulgaria and North Macedonia, of which boundaries are quite vague, in Serbia the term Šop has always denoted highlanders. [6] Shopluk was used by Bulgarians to refer to the borderlands of Bulgaria, the inhabitants were called Shopi. [7]
Much of Piri Reis's biography is known only from his cartographic works, including his two world maps and the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Maritime Matters) [6] completed in 1521. [7] He sailed with his uncle Kemal Reis [ 8 ] as a Barbary pirate until Kemal Reis received an official position in the Ottoman Navy in 1495. [ 9 ]
Trang An wharf is located 3 km south of Hoa Lu ancient capital, 7 km from Ninh Binh city to the west along Trang An boulevard, 16 km from Tam Diep city in the north through Tam Coc. Trang An - Tam Coc zone has an area of more than 6,172 ha, which is a special protection area of scenic spots.
The island of South Georgia was probably discovered in 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, [1] [2] a London merchant, and was named Roche Island on a number of early maps. It was sighted by a commercial Spanish ship named León operating out of Saint-Malo on 28 or 29 June 1756. [3]
Lumë [1] (also called Lum [2] and Lumi [3]) is a village in the former Shtiqën Municipality, Kukës County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kukës. [4] It is part of the Lumë region. According to Johann Georg von Hahn, both the village and the region take the name from the Lumë stream. [5]
The following table gives the letters of the Bulgarian alphabet, along with the IPA values for the sound of each letter. The listed transliteration in the Official transliteration column (known as the Streamlined System) is official in Bulgaria and is listed in the Official orthographic dictionary (2012).