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General information Type Castle Location Vila Nova da Barquinha, Médio Tejo, Centre Coordinates Completed fl. 1171 Owner Portuguese Republic Technical details Material The Castle of Almourol is a medieval castle atop the islet of Almourol in the middle of the Tagus River, located in the civil parish of Praia do Ribatejo, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the municipal seat of Vila Nova da Barquinha ...
The Forbidden City ( Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjìnchéng) is a palace complex in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China, at the center of the Imperial City of Beijing. It is surrounded by numerous opulent imperial gardens and temples including the 22 ha (54-acre) Zhongshan Park, the sacrificial Imperial Ancestral Temple, the 69 ha (171-acre ...
History Cartoonist Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.In 1973, while working as an assistant for T.K. Ryan's Tumbleweeds, he created the comic strip Gnorm Gnat, which ran only in the Pendleton Times of Pendleton, Indiana, from 1973 to 1975 and met with little success.. Davis had tried to syndicate the strip, but was unsuccessful; he ...
Petra (Arabic: ٱلْبَتْراء, romanized: Al-Batrāʾ; Greek: Πέτρα, "Rock"), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō[3][4] (Nabataean: or , *Raqēmō), is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system, Petra is also called the "Rose City ...
HSBC ceased retail banking operations in Thailand and Japan in 2012. HSBC entered Brunei in 1947 but commenced winding down its operations in April 2016 citing the bank's optimisation of its global network and reduced complexity. As of 2019, HSBC stopped offering Amanah (a retail banking product and service in compliance with the Islamic Shari'ah laws) in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Indonesia ...
Spanning 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), it is the world's tenth largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa. [9] With a population of 44 million, Algeria is the tenth-most populous country in Africa, and the 32nd-most populous country in the world. The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on ...
Winter in a village. Lerd tourist village in Ardabil province, Iran A village in Strochitsy, Belarus, 2008 A village in Pornainen, Finland An alpine village in the Lötschental Valley, Switzerland A berber village in Ourika valley, High Atlas, Morocco A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to ...
