Spain's capital is Madrid. The most populated city is also Madrid. The official language is Spanish. Andalusia is an autonomous community composed of 8 provinces, with its capital in Seville. Seville is the capital of both the province and autonomous community of Andalusia, with a population of nearly 700,000. The city and region are home to important historical and religious sites like the Cathedral, Giralda tower, and Basilica of La Macarena. Seville is also known for its annual Fair and Holy Week celebrations.
Lisbon, Portugal - The Coolest Capital of EuropeJerry Daperro
Situated by the western shore of Europe, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal has always been a land apart, on the fringe, sometimes the forgotten hem of Europe. Its identity as an separated nation had established its frontiers as long ago as the 13C, even though there are no insurmountable barriers separate it from Spain. The independent spirit of this small country, was to turn into the unknown world, with its discovery of the sea route to India. It became the first global empire and sea routes connect Portugal to all parts of the world. Began in the early 20C, Portugal began to transform itself into a modern. This proved to be a long journey. In 1910 the monarchy was overthrown. Portugal existed briefly as a republic. Then followed by 40 years of repressive dictatorship. Since 1976 Portugal has finally free itself and became a democracy. In 1986. it joined the European Community. Now for the first time in 500 years, Portugal began to look to a future within Europe.
Today Portugal has recovered from the deficit financing policy. It has a surplus in 2016 and the country is enjoying “sustained strong growth”. Today its service sector makes up three quarters of the gross value added (GVA), provided a quarter of the jobs. Fisheries and agriculture has 22% of the GVA and providing 25% of the jobs.
Lisbon, Portugal - The Coolest Capital of EuropeJerry Daperro
Situated by the western shore of Europe, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal has always been a land apart, on the fringe, sometimes the forgotten hem of Europe. Its identity as an separated nation had established its frontiers as long ago as the 13C, even though there are no insurmountable barriers separate it from Spain. The independent spirit of this small country, was to turn into the unknown world, with its discovery of the sea route to India. It became the first global empire and sea routes connect Portugal to all parts of the world. Began in the early 20C, Portugal began to transform itself into a modern. This proved to be a long journey. In 1910 the monarchy was overthrown. Portugal existed briefly as a republic. Then followed by 40 years of repressive dictatorship. Since 1976 Portugal has finally free itself and became a democracy. In 1986. it joined the European Community. Now for the first time in 500 years, Portugal began to look to a future within Europe.
Today Portugal has recovered from the deficit financing policy. It has a surplus in 2016 and the country is enjoying “sustained strong growth”. Today its service sector makes up three quarters of the gross value added (GVA), provided a quarter of the jobs. Fisheries and agriculture has 22% of the GVA and providing 25% of the jobs.
The Seville Cathedral is formally known as Cathedral of St Mary of the See. It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world. It was in Seville that the Spanish planned their exploration and the administration of The New World.
The Seville Cathedral is formally known as Cathedral of St Mary of the See. It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world. It was in Seville that the Spanish planned their exploration and the administration of The New World.
Cultural programme Seville city for one weekvizuetinho
Sevilla is one of the most beautiful cities around the world. A perfect place for sightseeing. Come and slice you in this city, with incredibles parks, have a beer while watching the sunset fall in the light of the Giralda and seeing the course of the Guadalquivir river. Discover the Spanish cuisine in one of these bars. Take advantage of each of their places and stay in love in Seville city. We will wait for you.
Presentation used to explain the city to Spanish students taking part in the exchange. We saw this presentation in class and each student had to learn a part.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
1. ESPAÑA CAPITAL: Madrid MORE POPULATED CITY: Madrid OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Spanish TRAINS POLITICS: parliamentarymonarchy SURFACE TOTAL:504.645 [2] km ² SURFACE AGUA:1,04 % COINS: Euro
2. ANDALUSIAis an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain composed by the provinces of Almeria, Cadiz, Cordova, Granada, Huelva, Jaen, Malaga and Seville, where her capital is located and has her sedate the Meeting of Andalusia.
3. SEVILLEis a Spanish municipality, the capital of the province homonymic and of the autonomous community of Andalusia. Seville was relying on in 2008 699.759 inhabitants according to the census of population, being the fourth city of Spain for population after Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. The municipality has an extension of 140,8 km2. The metropolitan area of Seville is composed by 46 municipalities and includes a population of 1.499.653 inhabitants (Inhabitants' Municipal Poll, 2008), occupying a surface of 4.900 km2.
5. Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art We can find it in The Sta'sCarthusian one. Maria de las Cuevas is placed on the fertile rightshoreof the river The Guadalquivir opposite to the city and in his exit towards Italic and the Aljarafe. In this place, thanks to the wealths of his muds and clays, they installed numerous ovens alfarertosalmohades, and it was in one of them, as it is deduced at present, where in 1248 there appeared the image of a Virgin, named by it, the Virgin of the Caves. To venerate this image one installs first a Franciscan hermitage and in 1399 Gonzalo of Ore, Archbishop of the city of Seville, founds the Monastery of the Carthusian one and provides with more area to the Convent
7. File of indies The today I File of The Indies, former House Merchants ' Strap, it is decided to construct in 1.572 before the abuse committed by the merchants that they were using to realize his transactions the steps of the interior Cathedral and even the of the moderates, in marries of rain or excessive heat.
8. TOWN HALL OF SEVILLE The Town hall of Seville is to monument of beautiful architectural forms. It was created in steal of Carlos I, March, 1526 when she married Isabel of Portugal. Cardinal Seville was the maritime and mercantile of Spain and of the world. The emperor encontro in very bad conditions to the Sevillian advice that was in the Corral of the Elms, next the Cathedral. Hereby, Carlos I ordered to construct the building where at the steals there were the straps of the former fish markets, which they were finding in to place mas centrally and representatively.
9. CATHEDRAL The cathedral of Seville is placed on the emplacement of the Great Mosque raised in the 12th century and of which her minaret preserve, today named "Weathercock" for the vane with which it was finished off in the 16th century; the court of the ablutions, and what was To Principal Door of the Mosque, today called " Door of the Pardon ". The Mosque was turned into Christian Cathedral when the City was conquered by Fernando III of Castile in 1.248, without by it her architectural structure was altered.
10. BASILICA OF THE PERTAINING TO LA MACARENA The confraternity of Our Lady of the Hope and Brotherhood of Penance was founded on 1.595, realizing his (her, your) first station of penance in 1.624. The Brotherhood of the Pertaining to The Pertaining to La Macarena one goes out in procession in the dawn of the Good Friday, being escorted Christ's step along to century of Roman soldiers with suit of network velvet, framework and helmet known popularly like " ARMAOS".
11. Hospital de los Venerables The Hospital of the Venerable Priests was founded by Justino de Neve in 1.675. I build itconsists of two floors and is integratedby the temple and what was a residence. Itlost this function only approximately thirty years ago. From 1.991 the Venerable ones, since popularly it is known, itis sedate of the Foundation FOCUS
13. Royal Fortresses It was the place of housing of the Arabic chiefs for the year 720. There were constructed several enclosures, between which estan the House of the Princes, to few housings which walls were going in the 9th century from the square of the Victory up to the neighborhood of Santa Cruz.
14. THE WEATHERCOCK (LA GIRALDA) According to the legend the almohades had to do to great platform to be able to raise this monument, which was at first to mosque. They did the great platform with building remains visigodos and Roman. They had so much fondness that prefered to knock down her before the Christians were getting hold of it. Of the former mosque only the Weathercock stays, only overcome in height for the bridges of the city. Inside her, your category there is nothing better, she is considered to be to sister of the Kotobyya of Marrakesh and of the great tower of Al Hasan's mosque of Rabat.
15. SQUARE OF SPAIN Between the buildings of Maria Luisa's park stands out the monumental Plaza of Spain, projected by Aníbal Gonzalez, person in charge of the architectural project of the Latin-American Exhibition of 1929. It is an enormous square surrounded by to semicircular and this reservoir in turn for to building with to tower in every end. It is of style regionalist, that is to say, base on typical elements of the Sevillian architecture, because of it the seen brick is the principal constructive element and her decoration centre on the ceramic coating, for putting to few examples.
16. The bullring of The this Fraternity of mounted knights placed in the neighborhood of the Sandbank and it is not accidentally, is like that because former was the convent of the Pópulo, which later was to jail and now the market of the Sandbank, habia to rectangular square of wood, which ended up by being to change of direction for the current one.
17. TOWER OF THE GOLD It was raised in the first third of the 13th century, in the last moments of the kingdoms of Gangs. His name in Arab was Borg-al-Azajal, which was coming to express, that the coating dee golden tile-works that was gleaming to the Sun were like the gold and was reflected in the river damaging the sight.
19. THE FAIR The origins of our Fair of April are in August 25, 1846 in which Narcissus Bonaplata and Jose Maria de Ybarra signed a proposition that they presented to the Municipal Chapter asking for authorization in order that during the 19th, April 20 and 21 an annual fair was celebrated. The Municipal Chapter saw with good eyes the initiative of the Basque and of the Catalan - curiously the predecessors were not Andalusian-, helped by numerous ranchers and farmers. This way in 1847 the first Fair of April is celebrated. It is a tradition that paralyzes Seville for one week and that provokes that an important part of the activity of the city carries out in the numerous sheds of the Royal one, point of meeting not already of ranchers who sell his products, but of entire families that live in a very special way through the most important Fair of the World, the Fair of Seville.
20. THE "ALUMBRAO" Really is something like "Powerful kick" in the San Fermines, represents the beginning of the Fair of Seville and consists in that the first authority of the city, our mayor, Alfredo Sanchez Monteseirín touches a botoncito and little by little there are ignited 22.000 bulbs of the Front page , which central arch of access to the Fair is inspired in the door that San Fernando leads to the building of the University of Seville (Tabacos's former Factory) for the street. Gradually the Royal one is illuminated completely, there being ignited the totality of the bulbs that exists in the Fairground. The Fair is lit completely ... and of there it of the "alumbrao". The front page of the Fair of April, during the last 27 years, made exception of the year 2.005, one has come inspiring in representative buildings of the city of Seville that, brought together of singular form, they have formalized with her arches, a point of meeting forced in the Royal one. The design shows an interpretation based on the front of a shed of fair, emphasizing her monumental neckerchief exornada with Sevillian motives sustained by two big pilasters as well as by columns of the series of arches of the bullring of Seville. All this reached with auctions that will carry three flags (Seville, Andalusia and Spain).
21. We find it in the original fair of cattle. To it the wives of the dealers were coming, in a good number gypsies and Andalusian peasants. Herclotheswere humble dressing-gowns of muslin. These dressing-gowns of bustling about, finished off in two or three steering wheels constituted as the years went by an authentic mode. The keys were clear, this pomp was heightening the body of the woman and in addition it was stamping a garb that was not achieving with the clothes that they were coming from the exterior.