Detail InformationEdit Mada’in Saleh, also called Al-Hijr or Hegra, is a pre-Islamic archaeological site located in the Al-Ula sector, within the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. A majority of the vestiges date from the Nabatean kingdom (1st century CE). The site constitutes the kingdom’s southernmost and largest settlement after Petra, its capital. Traces of […]
Luga (Russian: Лу́га; Finnish: Laukaa; Votic: Laugaz) is a town and the administrative center of Luzhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Luga River 140 kilometers (87 mi) south of St. Petersburg. Population: 36,409 (2010 Census preliminary results); 40,434 (2002 Census); 41,769 (1989 Census). The World War II German advance on Leningrad was […]
Cisnădie is a town in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania located approximately 10 km from Sibiu. One village, Cisnădioara, is administered by the town. Cisnădie was mentioned for the first time in a document from the year 1204 under the name “Rivetel”. In the 12th century Saxon colonists settled here, and in 1323 the German name […]
Detail InformationEdit Malate Church is a church in Manila, Philippines. It is a Baroque-style church which faces a small park and beyond that Manila Bay. The church is dedicated to Nuestra Senora de Remedios (“Our Lady of Remedies”), the patroness of childbirth.A revered statue of the Virgin Mary in her role as Our Lady of […]
Sines is a coastal municipality in the district of Setúbal, in the Alentejo Litoral region of the Portuguese Alentejo. Its population in 2011 was over 14260 residents, with a total area of 203.3 km², concentrated on the municipal seat of Sines. Vestiges of a few settlements have today been discovered in archaeological sites, such as […]
Águeda is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 335.3 km² with a total population of 49,456 inhabitants (41,022 electors in 2006). The main city proper has a population of 14,504, while the remainder is distributed in 20 parishes, within the Baixo Vouga Subregion. Águeda, has been the municipal seat since 1834, city […]
Loures is a civil parish in the central Portuguese Greater Lisbon municipality of Loures; it is an urban agglomeration comprising the city of Loures with a resident population of 66,231. Loures was a Roman settlement back at the beginning of the 1st millennium, based in a cemetery that eventually became the site of the first […]
Obidos is a town of approximately 3100 inhabitants and municipal seat of the municipality of Obidos, located in the Oeste Subregion, of the Estremadura historical province, in Portugal. The name “Obidos” probably derives from the Latin term oppidum, meaning “citadel”, or “fortified city”. Roman occupation of the area was confirmed by archaeological excavations, revealing the […]
Orie is a village of approximately 3,000 people, and located in the Isoko South local government area of Delta state, Nigeria. It is also called Orie-Irri because its inhabitants are generally believed to have originally migrated from Irri town. Orie is surrounded by three villages: Opke, Ofagbe and Utue. Most inhabitants are Christians, with a […]
Aradhe is a town in the Isoko North, Isoko region of Delta State, Nigeria. The town has an estimated population of 20,000 inhabitants. Aradhe has two primary schools and a secondary school called Aradhe Grammar School. The major occupation of the people is farming and the area is surrounded by swampland. HistoryEdit N.A. Places to […]