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| 1 | Republic of Macedonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 41.9969 / 21.4331 | Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991 (...) | |
| 2 | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1256 Lat/Lng : 42.7833 / 19.4667 | The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia or SFRY) was a country located in Central and Southeastern Europe that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars (...) | |
| 3 | Belgrade ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 44.8206 / 20.4622 | Belgrade (; / Београд, meaning "white city", ;) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. The urban area of the City of Belgrade has a population of 1.23 million, while nearly 1 (...) | |
| 4 | Pittsburgh ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 40.4396 / -79.9763 | Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S (...) | |
| 5 | Bradford ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 53.7887 / -1.7487 | Bradford is a city in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Bradford lies in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897 (...) | |
| 6 | Ankara ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 868 Lat/Lng : 39.9272 / 32.8644 | Ankara , historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of the Republic of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015), it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul (the former imperial capital), having outranked İzmir in the (...) | |
| 7 | Thessaloniki ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 40.6472 / 22.9639 | Thessaloniki (Thessaloníki , also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized (...) | |
| 8 | Ferizaj ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 578 Lat/Lng : 42.3667 / 21.1667 | Ferizaj , or Uroševac (; old name: Ferizović , is a city and municipality located in the Ferizaj District of Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the city has 42,628 inhabitants, while the municipality has 108,610 inhabitants (...) | |
| 9 | Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 252 Lat/Lng : 41.9984 / 21.427 | The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA; , tr. Makedonska pravoslavna crkva – Ohridska arhiepiskopija (MPC-OA)), or simply the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC; , tr. Makedonska pravoslavna crkva (MPC)), is the largest body of Christians in the Republic of Macedonia (...) | |
| 10 | Tetovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 470 Lat/Lng : 42.0095 / 20.9709 | Tetovo is a city in the northwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia, built on the foothills of Šar Mountain and divided by the Pena River. The municipality of Tetovo covers an area of at above sea level, with a population of 52,915. The city of Tetovo is the seat of Tetovo Municipality (...) | |
| 11 | Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 572 Lat/Lng : 42.6333 / 20.9167 | Kosovo (; or ;), officially the Republic of Kosovo (; / Republika Kosovo), is a partially recognised state and disputed territory in Southeastern Europe. It declared independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 (...) | |
| 12 | Macedonia (region) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 297 Lat/Lng : 41.0 / 22.0 | Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid 19th century (...) | |
| 13 | Pernik ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 699 Lat/Lng : 42.6072 / 23.0331 | Pernik is a city in western Bulgaria (about south-west of Sofia) with a population of 80,191 . Pernik is the most populated city in western Bulgaria after Sofia. It is the main city of Pernik Province and lies on both banks of the Struma River in the Pernik Valley between the Golo Bardo Mountain, (...) | |
| 14 | Sofia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 552 Lat/Lng : 42.6972 / 23.3167 | Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. The city is at the foot of Vitosha Mountain in the western part of the country. Being in the centre of the Balkan peninsula, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea (...) | |
| 15 | Dresden ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 51.0493 / 13.7384 | Dresden (; Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany; ;) is the capital cityDesignated by article 2 of the and, after Leipzig, the second-largest cityhttp://www.leipzig.de/news/news/leipzigs-einwohnerzahl-knackt-die-570-000/ of the Free State of Saxony in Germany (...) | |
| 16 | 2008 Sichuan earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2338 Lat/Lng : 31.015 / 103.365 | The 2008 Sichuan earthquakeSome early Western reports used the term Chengdu quake; e.g., , , etc. This term never picked up widely in media reports, but was reportedly used by BBC America in a follow-up report on preparations for winter and housing rebuilding efforts aired November 12, 2008, in (...) | |
| 17 | Byzantine Empire ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 41.0 / 29.0 | The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium) (...) | |
| 18 | International E-road network ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 71.1667 / 25.8 | The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E 1 up and its roads cross national borders (...) | |
| 19 | Smilkovci lake killings ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 42.0307 / 21.4823 | The Smilkovci Lake killings ("massacre at Smilkovci Lake") took place on 12 April 2012. Five ethnic-Macedonian civilians were shot and killed by ethnic Albanians at a man-made lake near the village of Smilkovci, outside the Macedonian capital Skopje (...) | |
| 20 | Black site ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 44.4678 / 26.0459 | In military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted. It can refer to the facilities that are controlled by the CIA and used by the U.S. government in its War on Terror to detain alleged unlawful enemy combatants. U.S. President George W (...) | |
| 21 | Tempe, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 361 Lat/Lng : 33.4153 / -111.9083 | Tempe (; Oidbaḍ in O'odham), also known as Hayden's Ferry during the territorial times of Arizona, is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2017 population of 185,038. The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece (...) | |
| 22 | Boboshticë ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 956 Lat/Lng : 40.5542 / 20.7644 | Boboshticë (Boboshtica; , Boboštica) is a village in the former Drenovë Municipality of the Korçë County in southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Korçë. (...) | |
| 23 | Incident at Pristina airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 542 Lat/Lng : 42.5728 / 21.0358 | A confrontation between Russian forces and NATO forces over the Pristina International Airport occurred on 12 June 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War. Russian troops occupied the airport ahead of a NATO deployment, resulting in a tense stand-off, which was resolved peacefully. (...) | |
| 24 | Gotse Delchev ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -62.6414 / -59.9328 | Georgi Nikolov Delchev (Bulgarian/Macedonian: Георги/Ѓорѓи Николов Делчев), known as Gotse Delchev, also spelled Goce Delčev, Cyrillic: Гоце Делчев, originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography: Гоце Дѣлчевъ; (February 4, 1872 – May 4, 1903) was an important Bulgarian revolutionary figure in (...) | |
| 25 | History of Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1047 Lat/Lng : 42.4061 / 20.9728 | The history of Kosovo is intertwined with the histories of its neighboring regions. The name "Kosovo" is derived from the Kosovo Plain, where the Battle of Kosovo was fought between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire (...) | |
| 26 | Religion in Pristina ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 600 Lat/Lng : 42.6585 / 21.1636 | Kosovo does not have an official religion. Like the rest of the country, the majority of Pristina's population consider themselves to be Muslim. However, most do not actively practice Islam, nor do they attend mosques or the religious services required by their religion (...) | |
| 27 | Croatia at the UEFA European Championship ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 53.4667 / -1.4667 | This is a record of Croatia's results at the UEFA European Football Championship. The European Championship is one of the major competitive international football tournaments, first played in 1960, whose finals stage has been held every four years, with the 14th staging of the competition occurring (...) | |
| 28 | Kumanovo clashes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 333 Lat/Lng : 42.1358 / 21.7181 | A shootout which erupted during a police raid between police forces and an armed group identifying as the National Liberation Army (NLA) occurred on 9 May 2015 in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo. During the shootings, eight Macedonian policemen and 10 of the militants were killed, while 37 (...) | |
| 29 | National Bank of Greece ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 37.981 / 23.729 | The National Bank of Greece (NBG;) is a global banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece. 85% of the company's pretax preprovision profits are derived from its operations in Greece, complemented by 15% from Southeastern Europe (...) | |
| 30 | Organ theft in Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 312 Lat/Lng : 41.6094 / 20.0122 | Organ theft in Kosovo (sometimes also known as the "yellow house" case) refers to the organ harvesting and killing of an indeterminate number of disappeared people. Various sources had estimated that the number of victims ranged from a "handful", up to 50, between 24 to 100 to over 300 (...) | |
| 31 | Trpejca ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 929 Lat/Lng : 40.95 / 20.7833 | Trpejca is a village at the foot of the Galicica Mountain and along the shore of the Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. Traditionally a fishing village, it has recently become an upscale vacation spot relying heavily on the tourism during the summer months (...) | |
| 32 | Radiovce ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 455 Lat/Lng : 41.9069 / 20.9633 | Radiovce is a village in Brvenica Municipality near the town of Tetovo in the Republic of Macedonia. The village of Radiovce is one of the newest in the municipality. The village is divided into several neighbourhoods including: Upper Radiovce; Middle Radiovce; Lower Radiovce; Zbiralo; Vakov; and (...) | |
| 33 | 2008 Gërdec explosions ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 41.4178 / 19.6311 | At approximately noon local time on Saturday 15 March 2008, at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality, Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana, the nation's capital), U.S and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition (...) | |
| 34 | Undermain Theatre ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 32.7849 / -96.7776 | The Undermain Theatre is an 80-seat regional theater, home to the professional theater company, Deep Ellum Theatre Group. It is located in Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas. Deriving its name from the actual location of the basement space "under Main Street", this ensemble group of theatre artists performs (...) | |
| 35 | International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 52.5038 / 13.396 | The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1998 which unites governments and experts to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education, research and remembrance worldwide and to uphold the commitments of the Declaration of the (...) | |
| 36 | South East European University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 449 Lat/Lng : 41.9858 / 20.9611 | South East European University (SEEU) is a university in Tetovo, Republic of Macedonia, with a branch campus in Skopje. It is the first private-public not for profit university in Macedonia. It was founded in October 2001 and is a member of the Balkan Universities Network and an associate member of (...) | |
| 37 | St. Uroš Cathedral, Ferizaj ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 582 Lat/Lng : 42.3704 / 21.1504 | The Church of the Holy Emperor Uroš is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the center of Ferizaj (Uroševac) in Kosovo. It belongs to the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren. The church was built between 1929 and 1933, dedicated to Serbian emperor Uroš V (r. 1355–71) (...) | |
| 38 | JoakimInterFest ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 44.0106 / 20.9103 | JoakimInterFest is an annual international theatre festival held in Kragujevac, Serbia, at the Knjaževsko-srpski teatar in the second week of October each year. (...) | |
| 39 | Commemorations of Mother Teresa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 41.9938 / 21.4307 | Mother Teresa of Kolkata has been memorialized throughout the world in recognition of her work with the poor. During her lifetime this commemoration often took the form of awards and honorary degrees bestowed upon her (...) | |
| 40 | OKTA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 323 Lat/Lng : 42.0056 / 21.6569 | OKTA was founded in 1978 and is a refinery in the Balkan area. OKTA is part of one of the biggest groups for the refining, distribution, and trade of crude oil, oil derivatives and petrochemicals – the Hellenic Petroleum group (...) | |