Prussia and Austria Further information: Austria–Prussia rivalry, Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg MonarchyBy the rise of Louis XIV, the Habsburgs were chiefly dependent on their hereditary lands to c ...
In various languages the Holy Roman Empire was known as: Latin: Sacrum Imperium Romanum, German: Heiliges R?misches Reich, Italian: Sacro Romano Impero, Czech: Svatá ?í?e ?ímská, Slovene: Svet ...
Strasbourg is the seat of internationally renowned institutions of music and drama:The Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, founded in 1855, one of the oldest symphonic orchestras in western Europe ...
The city's Gallicized name is of Germanic origin and means "Town (at the crossing) of roads". The modern Stras- is cognate to the German Stra?e and English street, all of which are derived from Latin ...
In 2005, the World Association of Newspapers accepted evidence that the Carolus pamphlet was printed beginning in 1605, not 1609 as previously thought. The Carolus petition discovered in the Strasbour ...
In 2005, the World Association of Newspapers accepted evidence that the Carolus pamphlet was printed beginning in 1605, not 1609 as previously thought. The Carolus petition discovered in the Strasbour ...
By the late 1990s, the availability of news via 24-hour television channels and then the Internet posed an ongoing challenge to the business model of most newspapers in developed countries. Paid circu ...
Newspapers often refine distribution of ads and news through zoning and editioning. Zoning occurs when advertising and editorial content change to reflect the location to which the product is delivere ...
A newspaper typically meets four criteria:Publicity: Its contents are reasonably accessible to the public.Periodicity: It is published at regular intervals.Currency: Its information is as up to date a ...
Mercator was born Gerard de Kremer or de Cremer in the town of Rupelmonde in the County of Flanders (modern-day Belgium) to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich, where he was raised. "Mercator ...
Properties and historical details Mercator's 1569 edition was a large planisphere measuring 202 by 124 cm, printed in eighteen separate sheets. As in all cylindrical projections, parallels and meridia ...
These gains were not meant to last, however: in December 1714, the Turks began the last Turkish–Venetian War, when the Morea was "without any of those supplies which are so desirable even in countrie ...
It was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, Venetian: Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta or Repùblica de Venesia) and is often referred to as ...
Venice is famous for its ornate glass-work, known as Venetian glass. It is world-renowned for being colourful, elaborate, and skilfully made.Many of the important characteristics of these objects had ...
Venice is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by 177 canals in a shallow lagoon, connected by 409 bridges. In the old centre, the canals serve the function of roads, and almost every form of ...
