King Khalid Airport is based 35 km north of Riyadh, but the largest in the country is the King Fadh international air hub in Ed Dammam. There is also an…
The city of Abu Dhabi was founded in 1760. There is a beautiful legend about the founding of the capital of the UAE. Arab hunters from one of the oases…
According to Equzhou, the city of Belomorsk is located on the coast of the Onega Bay of the White Sea. Primitive people appeared in these places as early as the…
According to Calculatorinc, in the northern part of the old city is the Glory Square, where the administrative buildings of Samara are located. The basis of the square complex is…
GEOGRAPHY According to Animalerts, Nepal is a sovereign independent state, bordered in the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and in the southeast and west by India. The…
Architecture. – From independence from the Soviet Union (1991) until 2005, due to separatist conflicts, architecture in Georgia was confined to small renovation projects. In 2007, the first real intervention…
Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean that offers its guests luxury hotels, pristine blue flag beaches and plenty of decent entertainment. The island is divided into two parts: the…
Dubai Dubai is the country’s most visited metropolis by tourists, without which it is impossible to imagine a single trip to this oriental fairy tale. Giant skyscrapers, white-sand beaches and…
MUMBAI Mumbai, which the locals stubbornly continue to call Bombay, is “Indian Manhattan”, firmly merged with Indian Hollywood (Bollywood), where more films are produced annually than in any other city…
Kingdom of Mustang Anyone traveling to South Asian Nepal should rarely have the opportunity to pay a visit to the former Buddhist kingdom of Mustang. Even today, the district of…
Modern art in Indonesia has its origins in the tension between the official art practice of the Dutch colonial rulers and the concern of some artists to re-establish their own…
There are daily reports in various media about the depletion of the ozone layer, climate change, dwindling freshwater resources, deforestation, acidification, desertification, air pollution and so on. When it comes…
Training From the very beginning, UNESCO has had as one of its most important goals that all people should learn to read and have access to education. The UN…
Cambodia prides itself on its millennial culture. The legacy of Angkorian high culture is reflected everywhere. Traditions and Buddhist values are alive, but decades of war, civil war and genocide…
Passport, visa and customs For entry to India, a visa is required. A tourist visa is valid for 6 months. Check that the passport is valid for at least six…
Malaysia is a melting pot of cultures and a paradise for nature lovers and shopping enthusiasts. On this trip we make an impact on the Malaysian peninsula to get a…
Passports and visas Nordic citizens can stay in Thailand for up to 30 days without a visa. However, there is a requirement that the passport must be valid for 6…
Situated on the shores of the Aegean Sea, Izmir is the third largest city in Turkey. Izmir, with a population of four million, has both the hustle and bustle of the…
Early and ancient times In ancient times, the area of today’s Yemen was called “Happy Arabia” (Latin: Arabia felix) due to its fertile valleys. The southern Arabian peninsula was shaped…
Pre and early history From around the 4th century BC. Relatives of the Vietnamese peoples originally from southern China invaded what is now Vietnam. In the Delta of the Red…
Beginnings In the 1st millennium BC. the area of what is now Uzbekistan was populated by Iranian tribes, during this time the empire of Choresmien was formed south of the…
Archaeological finds indicate that the islands off the coast of what is now the UAE are populated as early as the 3rd millennium BC. there. Nomadic tribes probably lived on…
Changing domination Around the middle of the 6th century BC. was the area of today’s Turkmenistan under the rule of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. In the 4th century BC the…
Beginnings In Asia Minor there are traces of settlement from the 7th millennium BC. (Çatal H¨¹y¨¹k). Archaeological finds indicates agriculture, metalworking and trade links to the Red Sea. In the…
Middle Ages to the 15th century The Thai people immigrated from China to what is now Thailand in the 12th century. By this time, there had been various Buddhist (Dwarawati)…
Early history to late antiquity The Tajiks are direct descendants of Iranian immigrants who settled in the territory of today’s Tajikistan in the first millennium BC. It was there that…
Beginnings The island of Taiwan was first mentioned in writing in Chinese documents dating from the 3rd century AD. come. Probably from the 6th century the first Chinese settlers came…
Early history and antiquity The area of today’s Syria was probably already from the 8th millennium BC. settled. Around the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Gradually Semitic tribes migrated…
Early period until the 15th century The Wedda are the longest-living ethnic group on the tropical island. Today, just under 1,000 agreements still live in the interior of the country….
Beginnings Already in the 3rd millennium BC. the area of today’s North and South Korea was populated by Tungusic tribes, which belonged to the Mongolian peoples and presumably came from…
Medieval to modern times The real history of the Arabian Peninsula or Saudi Arabia begins with the flight of the Prophet Mohammed from Mecca to Medina 622. This year is…
Early history to the Middle Ages Semi-nomads already lived in the regions of western Russia 5000 years ago, but it was only in the 9th century that Slavic tribes and…
18th century Very little is known about the country’s history before the 18th century. Until 1766, when the sheikhdom of Qatar was founded, there were probably only a few nomads…
Early period until the 15th century Around 25,000 years BC The first settlements on the Philippine Islands took place, the area has been settled for about 10,000 years. Around this…
Beginnings Pakistan’s history is closely linked to that of India. The Harappa culture, which dates back to around the 3rd millennium BC. originated in the Indus Valley is considered one…
The area of today’s Oman was probably already settled in the Stone Age. Even before the area was Islamized around 630, the local Bedouin tribes traded copper and incense. The…
Beginnings Already in the 3rd millennium BC. the area of today’s North and South Korea was populated by Tungusic tribes, which belonged to the Mongolian peoples and presumably came from…
Early to middle ages Around 1000 BC In the northern regions of what is now Nepal lived ethnic groups who came into the country from the north, while in the…
Antiquity and the Middle Ages Even before the beginning of the Christian era, powerful peoples lived in Mongolia, such as the Huns and Xiongnu. According to new knowledge, the Xiongnu…
Middle Ages to the 19th century The Maldives have been continuously populated since the 5th century, presumably by fishermen from India and Sri Lanka. Formerly Buddhist, Islam was introduced by…
Beginnings The Malay Peninsula was probably already settled in the Stone Age. In the 3rd millennium BC. the ancestors of the Malays migrated from southern China (so-called Proto-Malays). In the…
Estimated in the 3rd millennium BC. the area of today’s Lebanon was settled by the Phoenicians, who founded several city-states on the coast such as Byblos (today Jubayl), Berytos (Beirut),…
Beginnings Archaeological finds prove that the area has been inhabited since the 6th millennium BC. The finds on the Tran Ninh Plateau (Plateau de Xiangkhoang, level of clay jugs) in…
Early to late antiquity Already around 1000 BC the city of Osh was founded in the Ferenga Valley in the south. The regions of today’s Kyrgyzstan were mainly inhabited by…
Beginnings Based on archaeological finds, it is believed that the island of Failaka, which lies about 30 km northeast of the capital of what is now Kuwait in the Persian…
Early to modern times Remains of human settlement have been found in the vastness of Kazakhstan since the Paleolithic Age. However, the country’s history does not begin until the end…
Early period until the 19th century Archaeological finds on today’s state territory refer to hunters who already inhabited the region in the Paleolithic Age. The East Bank was closely linked…
Pre and early history The first traces of settlement on the islands, which today belong to Japan, date from the 5th millennium BC. (Jomon culture). From 300 BC followed the…
Early history The first residents of Palestine, the Canaanites, already lived in the 3rd millennium BC. in this region. Their religion had a significant influence on the Jewish faith and…
Early and prehistory The historical landscape of Mesopotamia, which today forms part of Iraqi territory, was probably already from the 8th millennium BC. settled. From around 3000 BC The high…