Hasa oasis area (World Heritage) Hasa oasis area (World Heritage) Anyone who thinks of an oasis as a small green watering hole in the middle of wide desert landscapes does not know Hasa (Al-Ahsa) in the east of Saudi Arabia….
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The Kathmandu Valley is considered to be the intersection of the most important Asian civilizations. The peaceful coexistence of Buddhism and Hinduism is evident in the immediate vicinity of Hindu temples and Buddhist monastery and stupa buildings. Important cities include…
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World Heritage Sites Kalat al-Bahrain Archaeological Site (2005) Pearl cultivation as evidence of an island economy (2012) Kalat al-Bahrain Archaeological Site (World Heritage) The settlement history of the island in the Persian Gulf goes back more than 4000 years and…
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Descending from the merger that took place in the century. Among the already sedentary indigenous groups and nomadic Mongolian tribes, the Uzbek population was later subject to the sovereignty of various khanates, among which from the eighteenth century those of…
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(Republik Indonesia). State of Southeast Asia (1,910,931 km²). Capital: Jakarta. Administrative division: provinces (32), special districts (1), autonomous province (1). Population: 248,818,100 (2013 estimate). Language: Bahasa-Indonesia (official), Javanese. Religion: Muslims 87.2%, Protestants 7%, Catholics 2.9%, Hindus 1.7%, Buddhists 0.7%, others…
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CULTURE The cultural history of Afghanistan boasts millennial origins and, above all thanks to the particular position of this land, a crossroads of peoples and experiences in continuous movement, since ancient times it has been configured as the result of…
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Different pedological and vegetable domains correspond to the different climatic areas. In Manchuria the steppe associations on dark soils prevail in the plains, in černozëm, while the temperate broad – leaved forest on brown soils grows on the hills; however,…
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Japanese music is primarily a unity of music, words and dance. But it also includes pure instrumental music and has developed the greatest variety of forms in the field of vocal music. In addition to the European music that dominates…
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Japanese theater, domestic and imported forms of performance in Japan since the 8th century AD (pictorial and written documents or transmission of gestures, choreography, music of the courtly arts): jugglers’ arts, sacred dances, courtly ceremonial theater. As in the rest…
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The media art is v. a. represented by the artists Tatsuo Miyajima (* 1957) and Hitoshi Nomura (* 1945). The artist collective Dumb Type (founded in 1987) is one of the innovative contemporary multimedia artists. In photography, H. Sugimoto, N….
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