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Culture of Thailand

The roof was steep and wide eaves sheltered from sun and rain.


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Culture of Thailand

Raised from the ground, the structure was cool in a hot humid climate, well vented and sheltered from wildlife.


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Culture of Thailand

The house might have been erected on the water's edge or even on its surface as floating, as water routes were used as access routes as there were hardly any roads.


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Culture of Thailand

The townhouses were made of removable wall elements that could be dismantled and assembled elsewhere when the need arose.


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Culture of Thailand

The number of pillars and the directions of the house had been carefully defined according to the terms dictated by the spirit religion blended with Buddhism.


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Culture of Thailand

Old customs and beliefs are still reflected in contemporary Thai architecture, where a house of spirits is erected on the border of the plot, and Buddhist monks inaugurate shopping malls and skyscrapers at their disposal.


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Culture of Thailand

Wood has given way to concrete, brick and glass.


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Large population growth and the demise of land covered by the right to claim have increased the price of land even outside the actual growth centres, making terraced and apartment building common even in small localities.


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Western form language borrowed from ancient Rome and Greece lives shoulder to shoulder with Thai ornamentation.


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Culture of Thailand

A twinkle standard house type in cities is the three-storey merchant house aakhaan phaans, whose street level has commercial premises behind a phalanx of sheet metal roller doors.


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Question: What is the acreage of Grenada?

Grenada

Grenada is a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea.


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It includes, in addition to the main island, several islands in the South Grenadines.


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Grenada

It is the second smallest independent state in the Western Hemisphere by area, only Saint Kitts and Nevis being smaller.


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It is located north of Trinidad and Tobago.


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Grenada

Grenada had time to exist as a colony of Spain, France and Britain before its independence in 1974.


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Grenada

Today it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.


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Grenada

The independent state progressively moved to the left through two coups, and allied itself with Cuba.


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Grenada

Fearing a change in Cold War power relations, the United States occupied the country for a week in 1983.


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Grenada

Grenada's sources of income are tourism and farming, mostly growing spices such as nutmeg.


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Both are weather-sensitive sectors, so the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 did a lot of destruction.


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Grenada

Geography The islands of Grenada belong to the Southern Grenadines, which are volcanic and their soil is very fertile.


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The elevation differences are large; the highest point is the 840-metre Mount Saint Catherine.


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Grenada

There are small rivers and springs across the main island.


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Grenada

Grand Etang Lake is located in a volcanic crater at an altitude of 530 meters.


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Grenada

In addition to the main island, Grenada includes the 33km2 size island of Carriacou and some smaller islands and islets.


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[1] In total, the area of the state is 344km2.


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[2] The average temperature for the year in Grenada is 28 degrees Celsius.


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Grenada

Precipitation ranges from 1500 millimeters in coastal areas to 3810 millimeters in the mountains.


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Grenada

The rainy season is June to December, and November is the rainiest month.


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Grenada

[3] Grenada is located at the edge of the hurricane zone.


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It went nearly 50 years without hurricanes until Hurricane Ivan destroyed 90% of residential buildings in, [4] and Hurricane Emily followed in 2005.


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Grenada

[5] The natural vegetation of Grenada is tropical rainforest.


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On the coasts grow mangrove forest.


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Grenada

Forests cover 15% of the islands' area.


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Grenada

Animal species are small in size, such as polyamarat, armadillos and rodents.


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Grenada

The bird species is diverse, with two species endemic: the grenadian running dove and the barb-nosed hawk (Chondrohierax uncinatus).


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Grenada

[1] History Colonial Period Before the advent of Europeans, the islands were inhabited by Caribs who had been driven out of their path by the Arawaks who had previously lived there.


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Grenada

[6] The written history of Grenada begins in 1498, when Christopher Columbus discovered the island and gave it the name Concepción.


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There is no certainty as to the origin of the name Grenada.


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Grenada

[3] Europeans left the island undisturbed for a long time, and the Caribs drove the British colony, founded in 1609, off the island.


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Grenada

Frenchman Jacques Dyel du Parquet bought the island in 1650 and founded what is now St.


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Grenada

George's.


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Grenada

[3] The French concentrated their power and gained control of the region by 1674, and by 1753 they got under way sugar production, run by about 12000 slaves imported from Africa.


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Grenada

The Caribs had been wiped out.


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Grenada

[6] The colony had to be handed over to the Britons at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, in accordance with the Treaty of Paris, and the Peace of Versailles of 1783 renewed the transfer.


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Grenada

The cultivation of nutmeg, cotton and cocoa was brought to the island by the British.


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Grenada

By the time slavery was abandoned in 1833, there were already 24,000 slaves on the islands.


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Grenada

[6] Grenada became a non-UK crown colony in 1877.


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Grenada

[7] Independence From 1958 to 1962, the island was part of the short-lived West Indies Federation.


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Grenada

[8] After its fall, Grenada attempted to form a federation with other Caribbean islands.


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However, in 1967 Grenada became an associate state of the United Kingdom, which meant that Grenada was responsible for its internal affairs, but Britain handled the island's defence and foreign policy relations.


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[3] Full independence was granted in 1974 under the then ministerial chairman Eric Gairy, who became the first Prime Minister of Grenada.


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[9] Revolutionary Gairy's regime developed into a very autocratic one, leading to a coup d'état carried out by Maurice Bishop, leader of the charismatic leftist New Jewel Movement (NJM) in March 1979.


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[8] Bishop's Marxist-Leninist socialist convictions and cooperation with Cuba alarmed the United States.


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Grenada

Cuba had sent advisers to build the new airport, and the United States doubted it might be used beyond commercial ends, possibly for military purposes.


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Grenada

[10] A power struggle ensued between Bishop and the majority of the ruling party PRG, also involving NJM's co-founder Bernard Coard.


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Grenada

Bishop was placed under house arrest.


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Grenada

He and several others were executed at Fort George on 19 October 1983 during a leftist coup d'état that resulted in the pro-Cuban government of General Hudson Austin coming to power.


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Grenada

At the time of the capture, there were fifty Cuban military advisers and about 700 construction workers on the island.


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Grenada

[11] The occupation of Grenada by U.S. forces and six other Caribbean island nations participated in the October 25, 1983 conquest, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury.


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Grenada

The occupation was reported to have taken place at the request of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).


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Grenada

[12] The occupiers quickly captured the island's leaders and Cuban migrant workers who were in the process of building an airfield on the island.


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Grenada

Grenada is far from the US mainland but was still seen as a threat to its security.


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Grenada

The need to evacuate US citizens was reported as the cause of the attack.


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Grenada

[13] British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders widely condemned the attack.


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Grenada

The UN could not condemn the act because the US vetoed it.


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Grenada

[12] Seventeen individuals belonging to the PRG and the Grenada Army were convicted in trials held by the United States (the “Grenada 17”).


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Grenada

Fourteen of them were sentenced to death, but the sentence was converted to life imprisonment after international pressure.


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Grenada

[12] The remaining three received 30 to 45 years in prison.


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Grenada

In 2003, Amnesty International published an account that their trial was not fair and their detention was political, linked to the Cold War.


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The last of them were released in 2009.


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Grenada

[14] [15] Mitchell's time with the center-left NNP party Keith Mitchell was elected Prime Minister three times in 1995, 1999 and 2003, and was also considered the favorite ahead of the 2008 election.


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Grenada

However, it was then that Tillman Thomas emerged as Prime Minister.


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Grenada

During Mitchell's term, Grenada established foreign relations with China and Libya.


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Grenada

[14] In 2001, the Financial Action Task Force accused Grenada of allowing money laundering.


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Regulations were tightened, and international sanctions were loosened in 2002 and 2003.


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Grenada

[14] In 2004 and 2005, hurricanes Ivan and Emily caused a national emergency.


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Grenada

[14] Politics as the Chief of State of Grenada is the monarch of Great Britain, represented on the island by the Governor-General.


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He appoints the Prime Minister and other ministers on the advice of the Prime Minister to the House of Representatives from the majority party.


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[16] The Parliament of Grenada is bicameral.


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Of the 13 members of the upper house, or Senate, 10 are appointed by the prime minister, three by the leader of the


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Grenada

The 15 members of the House of Representatives are elected for five-year terms.


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In majority elections, the candidate with the most votes is elected from each constituency.


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[16] The largest parties in Grenada are the National Democratic Congress (or NDC) and the New National Party (or NNP).


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The parties have virtually no ideological distinction, and each gains adherents from all social classes.


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In the 2018 elections, the NNP won less than 60% of the vote and all seats in the House of Representatives.


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The NDC's vote share was about 40 percent.


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Grenada

[17] An 800-member police force, comprising an 80-person paramilitary special force and a 30-person coastguard, is responsible for keeping order.


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[8] Parish areas responsible for local government, of which there are six in Grenada.


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The areas are Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint John, Saint Mark and Saint Patrick.


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In addition to these, the islands north of the main island form their own enclave.


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[18] Economy and Infrastructure Grenada is a middle-income state whose standard of living has risen significantly since the end of the 20th century.


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At the same time, the country's economy has transformed from an agriculture-driven to a service society, with tourism as the key driver of the economy.


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[19] Grenada is part of the Organization for Cooperation of Eastern Caribbean States, and thus its currency is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar.


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[20] Grenada's economy in the 2000s suffered due to hurricanes and the global recession.


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Grenada

[21] Hurricane Ivan brought the economy to a standstill in 2004, but reconstruction has nevertheless diversified the economy, with many new jobs created in the construction sector.


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[20] Grenada is sometimes referred to as “Spice Island”.


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[20] The country's main export crop is nutmeg, and both nutmeg and flowers are exported.


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Grenada is the world's second-largest producer of nutmeg after Indonesia.


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Other crops include cocoa, citrus, banana, cloves and cinnamon.


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Grenada's industrial production is predominantly small-scale.


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[21] The main trading partners are the United States and other Caribbean countries.


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[3] The main airport of Grenada is Maurice Bishop International Airport on the main island.


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The commuter station is Lauriston Airport on Carriacou.


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Grenada is also accessible by sea, and St. George's has a big port for cruise ships.


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Grenada

[22] Both a fast catamaran and cargo ships pass from one island to another, which also take passengers.


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The roads in Grenada are predominantly in good condition.


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Traffic is left-hand.


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Grenada

Both the main island of Grenada and Carriacou have bus services.


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[23] The population of Grenada in 2017 was 107825 inhabitants according to a UN estimate.


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[24] The largest of the inhabitants of the state are descendants of African slaves.


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Based on 2011 statistics, they comprise 82.4% of the population.


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In addition, mulatts (13.3% of the population) live on the islands, as well as some descendants of Indians brought to replace slaves as migrant workers, descendants of Old French and British Uudi inhabitants, and later North Americans and Europeans who immigrated to the islands.


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[3] More people have moved away from Grenada for decades than have moved to the island.


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Grenada

In 2010, the migration loss was estimated at 5000 lives.


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Grenada

[25] Destination countries to be converted from Grenada include Canada, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Britain and the United States.


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Grenada

[26] Almost everyone speaks English, the official language of the islands.


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Grenada

Approximately 40% of the inhabitants are Catholic and 30% are Protestants.


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[3] The largest group of Protestants is Anglicans.


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[27] There is also a small Muslim minority on the islands, who are mainly immigrants from Gujarat, as well as a small Rastafari society.


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Grenada

[28] Grenada has a 12-year school duty.


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Grenada

Higher education is provided by T. A. Marryshow Community College, which serves as an open educational institution for the University of the West Indies, and St. George's University in the United States.


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Grenada

[27] Culture Grenadian staple food includes bread, rice, peas, vegetables and fruits.


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Grenada

A lot of people drink domestic hot chocolate for breakfast.


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Grenada

For lunch, for example, salted cod may be eaten.


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Fish and chicken are cheap, beef is rarer.


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Grenada

Pork is eaten on special occasions like Christmas.


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Grenada

[29] The Constitution of Grenada guarantees freedom of the press.


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There are no daily newspapers, but private newspapers that appear weekly freely criticize the government.


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The public broadcaster Grenada Broadcasting Network is partly state-owned.


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It broadcasts the programme on one television and two radio channels.


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In addition to them, there is a private television channel, one Christian and two commercial radio channels.


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[30] Sport The most popular sport in Grenada is cricket.


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Other popular sports include football and netball.


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The Grenada national football team has played twice in the final tournament of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.


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The national team was ranked 169th in the FIFA rankings in May 2017.


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Fifa figures show there are 1652 registered footballers in Grenada.


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[31] [32] Grenada has participated in the Olympic Games with a team of 3—10 people since 1984.


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Its athletes have participated in boxing, taekwondo, swimming and athletics.


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The only medallist is 400-meter runner Kirani James, who at London 2012 won gold and in Rio 2016 achieved silver.


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[33] At the World Championships in Athletics, Grenada has achieved two medals: Kirani James won gold in the 400 m run in Daegu 2011 and bronze in Beijing 2015.


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Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

Itis (formerly called Itäkeskus) is a shopping centre located in East Helsinki in the Itäkeskus subdivision of the Vartiokylä district, at the intersection of Kehä I and Itäväylä.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

In addition to Kehä I, the shopping centre is bordered by Itäkatu and Turunlinnantie.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

Itis has a leasable area (Gross Leasable Area (GLA) of 115300 square metres [1] and a total area of about 200,000 square metres.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

There are more than 200 stores, restaurants and various services in total, 30 of these restaurants and more than a hundred stores.


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Itis (shopping centre)

More than 2000 people work in them, there are about 3000 parking spaces.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

The shopping centre was originally named Itäkeskus after the borough, in March 2012 it was changed to Itis.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

[2] [3] Earlier Itis was in use as an unofficial nickname.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

The shopping centre is due to be rebuilt comprehensively by the end of 2014.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

[4] The metro takes direct access to the entrance of the shopping centre when you come from the centre of Helsinki.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

Coming from Vuosaari and Mellunmäki, you will be transported via Tallinnanaukio.


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Itis (shopping centre)

Major Itis stores include Stockmann, S-market, Tokmanni, Giganti, Halonen and H&M.


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Itis (shopping centre)

Itis has both domestic and foreign fashion stores.


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Itis (shopping centre)

There are about 30 different restaurants and cafes in Itis.


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Itis (shopping centre)

In November 2018, Finnkino Itis was opened, which was renovated to Anttila's former premises.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[5] History The Eastern Centre was built by SKOP, which also owned the centre at first.


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Itis (shopping centre)

It was an investment of the 200 million mark for SKOP.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[6] The first phase of Itis was completed in the autumn of 1984 in the vicinity of Puhos Shopping Centre, which served the area, and was designed by architect Erkki Kairamo [7] (Gullichsen, Kairamo, Vormala Architects Ky) and built by Haka.


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Itis (shopping centre)

The façade did not attempt to bring out cultural or historical references; its prevailing image was created through advertisements and movement emblems.


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Itis (shopping centre)

Nowadays, the part designated as Pasasia had an area of 22,000 square meters and had 41 movements, including Anttila, Maxi, Pukeva and Seppälä.


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Itis (shopping centre)

Shortly after the opening, plans began to be made for an extension, which was completed with the renovation of the old part, designed by five architectural firms (among them Juhani Pallasmaa [8]) in 1992.


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Itis (shopping centre)

With the expansion, the area of the shopping centre multiplied to 85,000 square meters, new tenants included Stockmann and Sokos department stores and the total number of stores increased to two hundred, making Itis the largest trading centre in the Nordic countries.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[1] A new extension began at the end of the 1990s to the end of the Ring I side of the shopping centre.


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Itis (shopping centre)

The extension section designated as the piazza opened in September 2001, when the mall reached its current dimensions.


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Itis (shopping centre)

Both Itis sales and visitor numbers have been in decline.


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Itis (shopping centre)

In 2010 it had sales of approximately EUR 451 million [1] and in 2012 EUR 400,6 million.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[9] In 2011 there were 18.7 million visitors [10] and 17.9 million in 2012.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[9] The designers of Itis shopping centre and its surrounding area have been awarded twice with the Steel Structure of the Year Award awarded by the Steel Structure Association.


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Itis (shopping centre)

In 1984, architect Erkki Kairamo was awarded to the first stage of the shopping centre and in 1986 for the covered Hansabridge crossing Itävää by architects Sakari Aartelo and Esa Piironen.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[11] Ownership The expansion phase of Itis was financed at the end of the 1980s by the Central Bank of Savings Banks (SKOP).


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Itis (shopping centre)

After it was taken over by the Bank of Finland in autumn 1991, its real estate holdings were transferred to Sponda Oy, founded by the Bank of Finland.


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Itis (shopping centre)

In January 2002, Sponda sold Shopping Centre Itis to Dutch real estate investment company Wereldhave N.V for $317 million.


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for the euro.


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[12] In 2012, Wereldhave Finland owned 84% of Itis, 15% by Kesko and 1% by the City of Helsinki.


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[9] In October 2018, Wereldhave sold Itis to American company Morgan Stanley.


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Itis (shopping centre)

[13] Hansasilla is owned by the City of Helsinki and the neighbouring Easton Helsinki property complex of Itis, on the other side of Itäväkylä, is owned by Kesko.


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Itis (shopping centre)

The Society of Conservation Building Arts has made a conservation presentation to the Ely Centre in Uusimaa about the old part of Itis.


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Itis (shopping centre)

The ELY Centre recommends protection of facades with a change in the city plan.


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Itis (shopping centre)

The conservation presentation is driven by the shopping center's desire to repair the steel structures.


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Itis (shopping centre)

According to the view of Kristo Vesikansa, lecturer in architectural history, the building's look is based on steel structures.


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Itis (shopping centre)

The basic feature of Kairamo's architecture is clarity and boxiness, which creates the look of staircases, balconies and advertising devices located outside.


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Itis (shopping centre)

In its statement, the City Museum requires the preservation of the coloring.


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[7] Itis Stockmann Stockmann department store has been a shopping centre in Itis since 1992.


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Itis (shopping centre)

During the renovation of the shopping centre, Stockmann Itis, redeveloped, opened at the eastern end of the shopping centre on November 4, 2013.


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Itis (shopping centre)

Stockmann has space on three floors there of 12,000 square feet.


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Itis (shopping centre)

At the center of the department store is a 26-foot light courtyard that comes light through skylights.


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The so-called “Stocka clock” is at the end of the department store's bright yard.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

The area to the east of Itis, on the opposite side of Ring I, includes the Hok-Elanto hypermarket (Prisma) and apartments for around 400 inhabitants.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

The city plan amendment for the extension was approved by the City Council on September 27, 2006.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

The Prism opened in March 2009.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

Prisma is not part of It, as is Easton, a shopping centre on Kauppakartanonkatu.


Question: Where is the East Centre?

Itis (shopping centre)

Interior photos Pasaasi Pikku-Bulevardi Nivel Bulevardi in 2009 Restaurant worldSources on the topic elsewhere Coordinates: Category:Shopping and shopping malls in Helsinki Category:Helsinki attractions Category:Itäkeskus Class:Steel structure of the year Category:Key Articles of Screening


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The history of the Finnish language encompasses both the history of languages, i.e. the time when the language was not yet written, and the history of the written language.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The history of the written Finnish language is often referred to as the history of the book pool or the development of the book pool.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Language history The Finnish language, like other Uralic languages, has evolved from a Uralic parent language spoken about 6000 years ago somewhere between the middle reaches of the Volga and the Ural Mountains.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[1] [2] Today, however, many linguists consider cantaurali to be significantly younger and date it to around 2000 BCE.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[3] [4] Linguistic typological features inherited from the Uralic parent language up to modern Finnish include agglutination, use of possessive attachments, weight placement on the first syllable, and vowelization.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[5] The current Uralic languages have not evolved directly from Cantaural; there have been several intermediate languages over thousands of years, however, of which there are different conceptions of their numbers.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In the traditional family tree model, as many as four intermediate languages are assumed between Kantaurali and Cantaural, while the so-called comb-model suggests that Finnish has evolved directly from cantaural.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In general, however, at least one intermediate language is assumed between Finnish and Cantaural.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[6] Perceptions of when a Finnish language has been spoken in the territory of present-day Finland also vary.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

According to older timing, the Uralic stock language has been linked to the Comb Ceramic culture, which spread as far as the Baltic Sea as early as around 3900 to 3500 BCE.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[7] [8] Nowadays it is considered more likely that Uralic languages have spread to the territory of present-day Finland only when Finnish and Finnish have been separate language forms.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

They may have diverged from each other by perhaps the year 1000 BCE.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

after.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Kansaami is likely to have spread from the east to Finland in the past, while the centre of the main Finnish has been south of the Gulf of Finland.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[9] However, Cantafinn has also been spoken early in southwestern Finland, possibly as early as the Bronze Age but no later than the beginning of the Iron Age around 500 BCE.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[10] [11] Kantafinnish is the closest language to Finnish, which has developed into the Baltic Finnish languages, namely Finnish, Karelian, vepsä, lyd, Ingrian, vatja, Estonian and Livivi.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

They are quite closely related to each other, although Estonian, for example, is not entirely understandable to a Finn.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Kanta-Finnish was much influenced by Germanic and Baltic languages, which can be seen not only in the vocabulary but also in the structure of the language.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

During the Finnish period, for example, the congruence of the adjective attribute (the adjective inflects according to the main word, for example in the red house) and the union tricks perfecti and pluskvamperfecti have developed, and the Uralic word order SOV has changed to SVO.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[12] Cantafinn has been spoken around the beginning of the period, after which it has begun to develop into the current Baltic Finnic languages.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[13] Separate languages or dialects may be spoken from around year 500 onwards.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[14] Around the year 1000, Finland had four settlements based on archaeological discoveries, which have also been interpreted as representing four ancient dialects: Varsinais-Suomi, Häme, Karelia and Savo.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[15] Also in the oldest written sources, such as runestones, narratives and historical documents, Finland (= Varsinais-Suomi), Häme and Karelia, possibly also the coast of Ostrobothnia, or the area inhabited by the Quens, have also been mentioned as their own regions.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

This old tribal division is also the basis of Finnish dialect division.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[16] Many differences between Finnish dialects are partly based on dialect differences already existing in Finnish: therefore the Western dialects of Finnish and especially the southwestern dialects have more similarities with Estonian, whereas Eastern dialects resemble Karelian in many respects.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The current Finnish language has thus evolved from two different language forms.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[17] On the other hand, there have been linguistic changes in the south of the Gulf of Finland, which is why Estonian has developed in a different direction from Finnish.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[18] History of written language Early Suomen period (—1540) The first texts in Finnish appeared in the 1540s.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The period before it is called the Early Finnish Period.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Thousands of loose Finnish names and words mentioned in Latin and Swedish documents, such as court protocols, are already known from the end of the period.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[19] [20] The first mentions of Finnish place names are from the 13th century.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The oldest complete phrases in Finnish date from a 1470s German script: Mijnna thachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emijna daijda 'I want to speak the Finnish language, not me taida'.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Some ecclesiastical texts such as the Father Our Prayer and the Creed have been translated into Finnish and presumably also written down no later than the 15th century, but no manuscripts have survived.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[21] Similarly, it is known that there was preaching in Finnish in the 15th century in Turku Cathedral, so preaching literature must have existed too.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[22] Old Finnish period (1540—1820) Finnish literary language emerged with the Reformation in the 16th century.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Bishop Mikael Agricola published the first printed books in Finnish, such as Abckiria 1543 and Se Wsi Testamenti 1548.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In total, Agricola published nine works.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[23] The written form of the Finnish language from the 1540s until about 1810 is referred to as Old Bookshop [24] Finnish literature was almost entirely religious: Biblical texts, liturgical writings and catechisms.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Most of the texts were translated from Swedish or Latin, and mainly sermons and hymns were written directly into Finnish.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In addition to religious texts, administrative texts such as royal letters of command and laws were translated.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[25] The Bible was fully translated into Finnish in 1642.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[26] By the 18th century, more than just religious literature began to be published.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In 1776 Antti Lizelius began publishing the first Finnish-language newspaper called Suomen-language Tieto-Sanomat.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[27] The texts of the Old Book have many translation loans and sentence structures foreign to Finnish, because the texts are mostly translations and their authors had learned to write Swedish and Latin first.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[28] For example, Agricola may have used postpositions according to the Swedish language model, such as catzocat or the bird “look at the birds of heaven”, or replace Swedish or German articles with one, this and that.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[29] Spelling was based on prequels of Latin, German and Swedish, and initially, for example, marking the length of phonemes or differentiating between ä and e phonemes was inconsistent.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[30] In the Bible of 1642 the spelling had improved, but nevertheless, for example, the k-sound was marked with c ahead of the back vowel and long vowels were commonly written with one letter: for example, wälä 'avoid', langetcat 'langetkat', pädzijn 'päntsin'.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[31] The language was initially based on the Turku region dialect, but influences also came from Häme and Satakunta.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[32] Agricola himself wrote that he used mostly the “Finnish language” in the New Testament, that is, the Varsinais-Finnish dialect, but also other dialects if necessary.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[33] Different from the current language, for example, dialect forms of ia- or age-ending dialect such as Hopia 'silver', kipiäxi 'sore', cauhja 'terrible', and closing words such as red 'red', lankes' fell ', we ylistem 'praise'.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[34] Inessive often ended with mere s (seuracunnas, east, caupungis) or sa: ijancaikisesa elemesä 'in eternal life', taiwasa and maasa 'in heaven and land', this Suomesa.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[35] Early modern Finland period (1820—1870) In the early 19th century, political changes (time of autonomy) and the ideas of national romanticism made the development of Finnish language topical.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The years 1820—1870, when Finnish developed into a civilizing language, is called the Early Modern Finnish period.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In 1831 the Finnish Literature Society was founded, which set the goal of creating Finnish-language literature and improving the status of the Finnish language.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The Society also supported the collection and publication of old folk poetry.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Elias Lönnrot's collection voyages resulted in the publication of the first version of the Kalevala, the so-called Old Kalevala in 1835.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In particular, J. V. Snellman stressed the importance of Finnish language for the material and intellectual development of the whole country.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[36] With the advent of folk poems, the position of the Eastern dialects of Finnish improved, and the Western Finnish language began to be criticized.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

A period known as the struggle of dialects ensued, which ended in a compromise: the western base of the literary language remained, but new features of the Eastern dialects came to it.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The current Finnish language is based fairly equally on all the main dialects.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[37] Features taken from the Eastern dialects into the book language include, for example, the plural 3rd person imperfective form took (in the old written language you took) and inessive kalassa (“kala” in the old written language.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

On the other hand, the letter d, which was considered redundant for Eastern dialects, remained in common parlance.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[38] Spelling became established as it is today when even the last authors ceased to use the letters x and z.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[39] In the early part of the 19th century, a large amount of governmental and cultural vocabulary in Finnish was also created.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In particular, they were created by Lönnrot, who invented thousands of new words for different fields of study.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Other vocabulary developers included Samuel Roos, Volmari Kilpinen, Peter Hannikainen and Antero Varelius.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

New words were often created from old words by deriving and forming connecting words.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Wiring includes science (< from word to know), high school (< read) and letter (< book), connecting words again thermometer, republic and chair.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

New words were also introduced from dialects, the meaning of which was often changed or specified: for example, train has meant originally 'queue' and gas 'cold fog'.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[40] The official status of the Finnish language improved in several ways in the early 19th century, and it became increasingly used in teaching.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

A lecturer in Finnish language was established at the University of Helsinki in 1829 and a professorship in 1850, and in 1858 the first Finnish-language grammar school was established in Jyväskylä.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The status of the Finnish language was officially confirmed by the 1863 Language Decree, according to which Finnish was to become an equal official language alongside Swedish within 20 years.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[41] The period of early modern Finland is considered to have ended in the 1870s, when the status of Finnish language and Finnish-speaking civilisation was already quite established.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi appeared in 1870.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Fiction and theatre in Finnish got its start, and several newspapers and magazines were published in Finnish.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Finnish was used as the language of school, administration and judiciary.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[42] [43] Contemporary Finland period (1870—) The Finnish language has continued to develop even after the 1870s, when the modern Finnish period is spoken.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In particular, the vocabulary required by specialisms and technological developments has become and will be more.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

For example, new words born between 1880 and 1920 include trade association, bicycle and customer, and in the 1920s—1970s cinema, computer and freezer have entered the language.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

As the status of the Finnish language has stabilized and the overall level of civilization has risen, loanwords and foreign phonemes are no longer avoided as much as they used to be.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

For example, the 1980 New Glossary includes the words status symbol, audiovisual and doping.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[44] In the Modern Finnish period, there have been almost no changes to spelling or grammar, as they became well established in the Early Modern Finnish period.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

Changes have occurred mostly in the details.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

In general, striving for conciseness and brevity has been made: for example, general overview > overview, divergence > divergence, technical > technical.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The shortening tendency is also evident in the fact that the 3rd person singular pi suffix has been omitted (boot > gets) and a shorter variant has become generalized in the 3rd person possessive appendix: his son > his son.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

The use of particles has become more specific, so that, for example, when and than and but only separated from each other.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[45] [46] After the independence of Finland, the 1919 form of government stipulated that Finland's national languages are Finnish and Swedish and citizens have the right to use both languages in law and administrative life.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

However, the position of the Finnish language had strengthened so much that it was more about guaranteeing the right of the Swedish-speaking people.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[47] Today Finnish is also one of the 24 official languages of the European Union, guaranteeing the right to read EU documents, write to the Commission and receive a reply in Finnish.


Question: Where did the Finnish language come from?

History of the Finnish language

[48] Sources Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Lehikoinen, Laila & Kiuru, Silva| title = Kirjasuomen developmen| location = Helsinki| publisher = Department of Finnish Language at the University of Helsinki | year = 1991| isbn = 951-45-5073-0}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Lehtinen, Tapani| title = Millennials of Language | location = Helsinki| publisher = Society of Finnish Literature| year = 2007| isbn = 9789517468961| accessdate = 21.3.2017}} References Category:Language History Category:Finnish Language


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The Laos People's Democratic Republic, or Laos, is a landlocked country of 6.8 million people in Southeast Asia.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

It is bordered by Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), China, Vietnam and Cambodia.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The country is poor and mountainous.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The former French colony is officially a socialist state whose culture is tinged with Buddhism.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Rare species of animals live in its rainforests.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The name of the country Laos in Lao language is 'Muang Lao' [laau].


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

When it was under French rule, the French spelled the name of the country in the plural 'les Laos'.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

This spelling is well established in other languages as well.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[1] History Early History The area of present-day Laos was ruled from the Bronze Age by principalities born into the Mekong River valley.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The Dvaravati Kingdom of many brought therevada Buddhism to the region in the 6th and 7th century.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[2] In 1354, the Kingdom of Lan Xang, or “Land of the Million Elephants”, was established on the territory of present-day Laos, which existed until the 18th century.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In the 18th century, Siam (present-day Thailand) took under its rule over the fragmented principalities of Laos [3] and in 1829 King Jessadabodindra of Thailand again conquered the country.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[4] Colonial period and World War II In 1893 Laos was annexed as part of French Indochina.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

However, Laotians were allowed to operate relatively independently, although with the exception of the territory of the Kingdom of Luang Prabang, French officials were stationed in the country.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

During World War II, Laos was occupied by Japan.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[3] Independence Immediately after World War II in 1945, Laos declared independence, and its independence was recognized on 19 July 1949.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In practice, however, Laos was strongly linked to France before it in 1954 achieved full independence as a constitutional monarchy.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Shortly after gaining independence, Laos became involved in the Indochina War and the subsequent Vietnam War.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The United States bombarded Laos to destroy supply routes and refuges for the North Vietnamese.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[5] The communist Pathet Lao movement came to power in 1975, when King Savang Vatthana was forced to abdicate his crown.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[5] Laos became a People's Republic and Prince Souphanouvong became its first president, who led the country until 1991.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[6] In reality, the country was completely under Vietnamese rule.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[7] In 1986, encouraged by the example of the Soviet Union, Laos began economic reforms that led the country towards a market economy.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The twenty-year U.S. trade embargo on Laos ended in 1995.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[5] In 2006, 400 Hmong-minority rebels who had been living in the mountains as outlaws since the Communist took power in 1975 surrendered to the government.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Those who surrendered were transferred to military trucks and there is no word on their situation.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[8] The army controls the remaining Hmong-rebel communities by using means that meet the criteria for genocide.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

There are repeated reports of human rights abuses from escaped asylum seekers.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In 2008, Hmongs were made into a documentary Hunted Like Animals [9] in the United States, Hmongs living in exile have been repeatedly accused of revolutionary machinations.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[5] Politics and Society The only legitimate political party in Laos is the Laotian People's Revolutionary Party, and the country is officially socialist.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The head of state is the president elected by parliament for five years at a time.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The government is headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the approval of Parliament.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In 2011, Choummaly Sayasone was elected President of the country for a second term and Thongsing Thammavong as Prime Minister.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[10] Executive power is also exercised by the 11-member politbyro and the 33-seat party central committee.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

There are 115 MPs in Parliament.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Laos introduced a new constitution in 1991 and was edited in 2003.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[3] The death penalty is in place in Laos and can be obtained for a variety of offences.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

However, no execution has been carried out since 1990.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In June 2002, three substance abuse smugglers were sentenced to death, and a total of 39 lives have received death sentences since 2003.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In 2009, a British smuggler was threatened with the death penalty.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[11] Territorial division and largest cities In addition to sixteen provinces (khoueng), Laos has one special region (khetpiste), Xaisomboun**, as well as one municipality (kampheng nakhon), Vientiane*.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[10] The provinces are further divided into districts (muang) and villages (baan).


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[12] According to a 2010 estimate, the largest cities were Vientiane (237,300 inhabitants), Pakxe (119848), Savannakhet (77400) and Luang Prabang (62334).


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Laos

Other towns had fewer than 50,000 residents.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[13] Provinces of Laos [14] Provincial Capital Area (km2) Number of inhabitants (1.3.2005) Number on mapAttapuattapu10 320112 1201BoKeoHouayXai6 196145 2632BoliKhamXaiPakXan14 863225 3013ChampasakPakXé15 415607 3704HouaPhanXam Nua16 500280 9385KhamMouanthakhèk16 315337 3906Loung NamthalouangNamtha9 325145 3107Luang BangLuang Prabang16 875407 0398OudomXaioudômXai15 370265 1799PhongSaliphôngSali16 270165 94710Salavansaravan10 691324 32711Savannakhetsavannakhét21 774825 90212Vientianecity3 920698 31813Vientianephôn-hông18 526388 89514Xaignaboulixaignabouri16 389338 66915Xaisomboun **Ban Mouang Cha4 50639 42316XeKongXékong7 66584 99517Xieng KhouangPhônSavan15 880229 59618 Geography Laos is a landlocked country with neighbouring countries such as China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.


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Laos

It has an area of 236,800 square kilometers.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Water from the surface area is about 6000 square kilometers.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Laos has a total land border of 5083 km, of which 2130 km of the border shared with Vietnam.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[10] Laos is located in a mountainous region.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The Annam mountain chain runs across the country from north to south along the eastern, anti-Vietnam border.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

There are mountains elsewhere, and north of the capital Vientiane lies the highest point in the country, Phou Bia, at an altitude of 2817 metres above sea level.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The lowest point is 70 meters above sea level.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The rivers have their origins in these mountains, flowing from east to west and converging with the Mekong River.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The Mekong forms part of the anti-Burman border and much of the western, anti-Thailand border.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[15] [10] The riverbanks have low-lying areas suitable for rice farming, but large lowlands are lacking in the wire.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The mountainous areas are more inhospitable than the riverbanks.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Most of Laos is covered by rainforests irrigated by monsoons.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[15] The climate of Laos is tropical, and its mountain ranges otherwise shape the climate defined by the monsoons.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

May to November is the rainy season, followed by a drier season from December to April.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[15] Temperatures are high through the year.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In Vientiane, for example, the average daytime maximum temperature ranges from 28 in December to 34 degrees in April.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Only the mountains to the north have some cooler periods at times when cold air erupts from the continental climate region of China.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[16] Nature Laos is a forested country, as about 80% of the land is covered with forests.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[17] Approximately half of the forests are still in a natural state, mostly tropical rainforest.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[18] However, forests are threatened by cascading farming, forest fires, authorised and unauthorized logging, and the acquisition of firewood.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[19] National Biodiversity Protected Areas have been established in Laos.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The most important among them are the evergreen forests of the Annam Massif, the limestone karst of central Indochina, the dry forests formed by dipterocarpus plants of the Mekong Plateau, the Bolaven Uplands, the highlands of the northern part of the country, and the Mekong River.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Rare, newly discovered mammal species such as the saola, giant muntyak and another muntyak species, Muntiacus truongsonensis, are protected in the areas.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Seven night-active monkey species live in the Hin Nam Mo Reserve, and 430 species of birds live in the Nakai-Nam Theu area.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[20] At least 130 endangered species of animals and several endangered plants live in the country.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[21] These include orchids, the fauna in turn the Indochinese tiger, the collared bear, the donkey elephant, the lyric horn belonging to the moose or tamengi (Rucervus eldii), the ducal monkey, the gibbons, the iravad dolphin, the giant shark catfish and the siam crocodile.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[22] Economy Laos is the poorest state in Indochina, and international development aid accounts for a large part of the state budget.


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Laos

In 2001, the IMF and the UN Food Programme started emergency relief programs in the country.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In 2008, the Save the Children organization estimated that 69% of children live without primary health care.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[5] Agriculture employs 80% of the labour force and accounts for just under 30% of GDP.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[10] As of 2005, the World Bank is funding the Nam Theun dam project.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The dam is supposed to generate hydropower, but there is controversy over its environmental impact.


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Laos

[5] The mineral and forest resources of Laos are considerable.


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Laos

It exports gold and copper to China, textiles to Europe and electricity to Thailand.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Metal refining and hydropower have spurred the country's economic growth.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[23] Tourism is also on the rise.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Tourism only began in the 1990s, and as the 21st century wears on, the number of tourists has grown rapidly.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

There were nearly 900,000 visitors in 2004, and the government set a target of 1.2 million tourists a year by 2010.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[24] Traffic in Laos is 41 aerodromes, but only nine have a paved runway.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[10] The rail link from Nong Khai in Thailand to Tha Na Leng on the Laos side was opened in March 2009.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The three-and-a-half kilometre long railway will be Laos's first, and it is planned to be extended as far as Vientiane.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

It is hoped the new rail link will develop tourism and stimulate commerce.


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Laos

[25] Population Of Laotian population 55% belong to Lao people from ethnic background.


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Laos

[10] Mainly remote areas are inhabited by highland peoples such as the Hmongs, Yaos, Daos and Black Thais.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The mountain ranges of central and southern parts of Laos are also home to members of Mon-Khmer tribes.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The country is also home to some Chinese and Vietnamese.


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Laos

In total, in Laos the 1995 census enumerated members of 47 different ethnic groups.


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Laos

[15] [26] The main language of Laos is Lao, which belongs to the Tai languages and is closely related to the Isan language among others.


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Laos

According to Ethnologue, a total of 84 languages are spoken in the country.


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Laos

[27] The predominant religion is Theravada Buddhism, which is often practiced alongside spirit worship and animism.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Christians and Muslims also live in the country as minorities.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[3] Development Challenges Laos is among the Least Developed (LDC) countries.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The country's economy is in transition towards a market economy and there has been success in reducing poverty.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In 1992, almost half of the country's population lived in poverty, but in 2005, it was estimated that only 27% were poor.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Previously, a third of the world's opium production came from Laos, but after 2005 opium is no longer grown.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[28] Half of Laos's GDP is derived from small-scale farming, with up to 80% of working age people.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The vast majority of the population, up to 83% live in remote rural areas, devoid of basic services and functioning infrastructure.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Poverty has been unevenly distributed, with double the number of poor people in rural areas compared to cities.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

While gross domestic product is in good growth, only a few get to share in its benefits.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[29] Population growth is in the order of 1.7%, with over 40% of the population under 14 years of age.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[10] With population growth and economic growth, natural resources will be put to an even harder test in the future.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Infant mortality has fallen and between 1995 and 2005 the infant mortality rate has decreased by more than a third.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In 2005, the readings were 70 deaths per 1,000 live births.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The death rate among under-fives has also been brought down: today an estimated 98 children per 1,000 perish under the age of five, compared with 170 ten years earlier.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[29] There is a lot of improvement in gender equality.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

At all levels of education, a smaller proportion of pupils are girls than boys.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Because of this, women have little chance of getting jobs anywhere other than farming.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[29] In 2005, 63% of women and 83% of men were literate.


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Laos

[10] Women's share of MPs increased threefold between 1995 and 2003 and is among the largest in the region.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

However, the proportion of women in regional and local decision-making bodies has not developed in the same way.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[29] In 1991, 58% of school age students attended school, compared to 84% of children in 2005.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[30] Laos has many mines and other explosives, still estimated at about half of the total land area of the country.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

They pose a security risk and hinder development.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[31] The mines and unexploded munitions date back to the Vietnam War period, when the United States dropped an estimated over two million tons of bombs on Laos, including about 270 million cluster bombs.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[32] Culture Theravada Buddhism has traditionally played a large role in Laotian culture.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Before the 1975 revolution, Buddhism and the king family had united as national symbols.


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Laos

That Luang's stupa in Vientiane is among the country's holiest sites, and its memorial day has become an important national holiday as communist rule has waned.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

However, representatives of some ethnic minorities are not Buddhists, and many of them have been influenced by Chinese and Vietnamese culture.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[15] The basic food for Laoists is porridge rice eaten with fingers and dipped in chili or fish sauces.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

The spoon and fork are used as side dishes for eating meat and vegetables served.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Minority peoples also eat loose rice with chopsticks.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

A lot of fish are eaten in the Netherlands.


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Laos

Of meat dishes chicken, buffalo and cattle are common, pork less common.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

From the Vietnamese side, eating dog meat as a health-influenced food has spread.


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Laos

[15] Luang Prabang and Wat Phou in Laos are World Heritage Sites.


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Laos

[33] In Laotian music, an important part is played by, among other things, a wind instrument called khaen.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Khaen is used, among other things, to accompany a mor lam singer.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Several subspecies have evolved from Mor lam, one of the most common forms of folk music in Laos, including lam saravane.


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Laos

[34] [35] The current flag of Laos was introduced on 2 December 1975.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

From 1952 to 1975, a flag with a white three-headed elephant (Erawan) on a red background was used in Laos.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

[36] Media All newspapers published in Laos are owned by the government.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

Most newspapers are Laon-language, but the English-language Vientiane Times and the French-language Le Rénovateur are also published in the country.


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Laos

Leaf spreads are small.


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Laos

[37] Sports The Laos national football team has not once appeared in the World Cup or Asian Games.


Question: How does one get to the landlocked state of Bhutan?

Laos

In the FIFA rankings, it has been ranked top 140 in 1998.


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Laos

[38] Laos has participated in the Olympic Games first in 1980 and since 1988 regularly.


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Laos

Its team had 17 at first time, followed by usually 3 to 6 athletes.


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Laos

The country has not received a single medal.


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Laos

[39] In 2009, Laos was allowed to host the Southeast Asian Games for the first time.


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Laos

[40] Sources Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Petersen, K.| title = Human Time| location = Porvoo| publisher = Werner Söderström Limited Liability Company| year = 1965| version = Finnish by Antero Manninen and Pentti Papunen}} Könemann: Geographica: large world atlas, countries, peoples (ISBN 3-8290-2481-9) References on the topic elsewhere Category:42 Asia * Category:Key articles of screening


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

The Condorcet paradox is a paradox of majority rule related to social selection theory, which shows that in certain situations it is not possible to determine the will of the majority.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

The paradox rests on the observation that even if individual voters' preferences in terms of options to vote are transitive, the preferences of a majority of voters may not be it.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

The paradox is named after its inventor, Nicolas de Condorcet, a French mathematician and Enlightenment philosopher who lived in the 18th century.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

The Condorcet paradox relates to situations where a decision must be made based on the will of the majority, but there are more than two alternatives and no single option is considered best by the majority in principle.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

Condorcet developed the so-called Condorcet method to this end, whereby each voter ranks the options in order of rank, the options are then compared as individual pairs and an option is chosen as the winner which is preferred by the majority in pairwise comparisons relative to all others to alternatives.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

However, Condorcet found that in some situations the method was unable to determine the winner.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

Example: Voters A, B and C choose from options x, y, and z.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

A thinks x is better than y, which is better than z.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

B thinks y is better than z, which is better than x.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

C thinks z is better than x which is better than y. In this case, pairwise comparisons find that two-thirds think x is better than y, two-thirds think y is better than z, and two-thirds think z is better than x. would therefore be x > y > z > x, thus forming an endless perimeter instead of rational order.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

The phenomenon is called the intransitivity of majority preferences.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

If one pair were to be voted at a time in an example situation, any of the three options could end up winning, depending on the order in which the votes were conducted.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

Several 20th-century political scholars have noted that the Condorcet paradox usually arises in situations where voters perceive alternatives through more than one political contradiction dimension (e.g., the left—right dimension).


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

See also Arrow's paradox Sources Maija Setälä: The value of democracy — theories, practices and possibilities, p. 40—44.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2003.


Question: Who invented the Sorites paradox?

Condorcet paradox

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Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The automotive industry of the People's Republic of China is the world's largest producer of


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In 2008-2009, China rose past the United States as the largest car market in the world, [1] and in 2015 the country was by far the largest automaker.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The country's car plants made a total of 24.5 million cars at the time, or 27 percent of the world's auto production.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[2] The largest Chinese automotive groups are Chinese state-owned companies.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Still, as much as 70 percent of the country's car production was based in the early 2010s on car models from foreign car factories produced in joint ventures with Chinese groups.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[3] However, in 2015 the market share of China's own car brands increased by more than 40%.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[4] China's car fleet increased tenfold in the 2000s by 2015.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The car sitting rate was around 125 cars per 1000 people in 2015.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[5] [6] The history of the Chinese automotive industry The first cars were imported into China in 1901.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Cars were particularly visible in Shanghai, the country's most developed city.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In the decades that followed, almost all the cars in the country were imported goods from abroad and many of them were owned by foreigners.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The slow pace of development of China's own automotive industry was affected, for example, by low incomes of the mainstream population and the lack of paved roads


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[7] However, a test kit of the Chinese truck Minsheng Model 75 was produced in 1931.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[8] Industrial production top with Soviet support from the Chinese Civil War, the victorious communists sought since the 1950s to promote the development of the country's heavy industry.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

One of the most important aspects of the industry was the serial production of trucks, as trucks were needed to transport agricultural products and use by the military.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

To start production assistance was sought from the allied country Soviet Union.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

First Auto Works, or FAW, was opened in 1953 in Changchun city of northeastern China's Jilin Province and the factory began production of Jiefang trucks.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[7] The first Jiefang truck (Finnish exemption) was completed in 1956.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[9] Other automobile factories were subsequently established in Nanjing, Shanghai and other cities.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Production of passenger cars began on a small scale in 1958, after which a few hundred passenger cars were produced each year.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Major passenger car models included FAW's Red Flag limousine and Shanghai's Phoenix.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Many of these were produced for use by the political leadership.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The early automotive industry was dependent on imported parts from the Soviet Union, but this came a change with the intermediate breach of countries.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In the 1960s, all parts of the Jiefang truck were produced locally.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[7] By 1965, the production capacity of the Chinese automotive industry had only been increased to 60000 cars per year.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

There were a total of ten car models at this point.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[9] However, the production of passenger cars continued on a small scale.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The change came only after Mao Zedong died, when the reformist administration sought to get foreign car manufacturers into China.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[7] Foreign automakers The first foreign car manufacturers to invest in China were American Motors (now.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Chrysler), Volkswagen and Peugeot.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The companies established production facilities in Beijing (Beijing Jeep), Shanghai (Shanghai Volkswagen) and Canton (Guangzhou Peugeot).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Of these, only Volkswagen was financially successful at first.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Volkswagen received high-quality parts from Shanghai and additionally received significant support from the local government.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

American Motors was suffering from low demand for the models it makes and a shortage of subcontractors for parts in Peugeot agricultural-dominated southern China.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In the late 1980s, Volkswagen controlled about 60% of China's passenger car market.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Its most successful models at the time were Santana (Passat) and Jetta.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In the 1990s side, the supply of models increased as General Motors, Citroën, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford and Hyundai, as well as most other major foreign automakers, also entered the country.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[7] By the time of the 21st century, the income level of ordinary Chinese had increased and at the same time the price of cars decreased.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Car loans became possible for a larger portion of the population and the road network grew.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Between 2001 and 2007, the volume of manufacturing and purchasing passenger cars almost eightfold.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Manufacturing volumes for trucks, buses and other cars that depend more entirely on domestic demand remained steadier, rising from 1.7 million to 2.5 million.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

China became the second-largest market for automobiles immediately after the United States.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

As a rule, the increase in production volumes and the decrease in prices was due to increased price competition among new car manufacturers.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

For poorer Chinese, domestic manufacturers such as Chery and Geely also emerged, which did not depend on foreign investment.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[7] China's automotive industry and automotive activity rate in 2015 In 2015, China was the largest car manufacturing country in the world.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The country's automotive industry manufactured 24.503 million cars at the time, according to statistics from OICA, an international association of automobile manufacturers.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Of these, 21.079 million were passenger cars and 3.424 million were commercial vehicles.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In 2015, China accounted for 30.7 percent of the global manufacturing volume of passenger cars, 15.5 percent of commercial vehicles and 27.0 percent of the global manufacturing volume of all cars that year.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

China was by far the world's largest passenger car manufacturing country, but in commercial vehicles, the country was only in second place after the United States.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[2] The evolution of the car fleet in the 21st century The accompanying column diagram describes the evolution of China's car fleet in the 21st century.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The number of registered cars (million cars) appears above each annual column.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The figure value for 2014 is an estimate based on the situation in November 2014 (154 million registered cars at the time).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[10] [5] As both automotive exports and imports are relatively small in relative terms, the expansion of the Chinese automotive industry has a clear link to the growth of the car fleet.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In 2015, 23.85 million new cars were registered in the country.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

At the end of the year, China had a total of 172 million registered cars.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[5] This translates to a rate of automobilisation of 125 cars per 1000 people if the population of the country is considered to be 1.3762 billion (2015).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[6] Automobiles accounted for 61% of all 279 million registered vehicles; by the early 2010s, the number of cars overtook the number of two-wheeled motor vehicles (motorcycles and mopeds).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The number of electric cars and other NEVs (cars using new forms of energy) was 0.5832 million (2015).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In China, 31 households out of 100 had a passenger car (2015).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The largest number of cars are in major cities such as Shenzhen, where the car may have already been in 60% of households.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

In total, 11 major Chinese cities (e.g.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin) there are more than two million car owners and 40 cities have more than one million car owners.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[5] Car brands and car manufacturers Foreign car brands and joint ventures As recently as 2000, Chinese car brands accounted for two-thirds of passenger car sales, but since then the share has halved.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[11] Today, the main part of China's automotive industry is based on foreign car brands and cooperation with traditional European, US, South Korean and Japanese manufacturers.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Chinese consumers have seen their own country's car plant brands and their quality as low standard.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Therefore, automakers from elsewhere such as Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroën and Toyota represented with their own car brands a share of about 70% of the Chinese market in the early part of the 2010s.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[3] [11] For example, in July 2014 car sales, China's own car brands only had a market share of 34,6%.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[12] However, in 2015 the market share of China's own car brands increased by more than 40%.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[4] China's own automotive industry has been involved for more than 30 years with joint ventures in manufacturing foreign car brands.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

As early as 1983, Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation entered into a cooperation agreement with Chrysler to manufacture American Jeep SUVs in China.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[13] The Chinese state plays a key role in its country's automotive industry.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The country's government protects its car plants through its measures restricting competition and foreign production.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Large joint ventures that have been inflicted by compelling legislation have created few new innovations relative to their size.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The largest local automakers in the Chinese market are Volkswagen joint ventures with state-owned SAIC Motor and FAW car groups (production generous 1 million cars/joint venture in the period 1-7/2014) and approximately equal were GM joint ventures (Shanghai—GM and SAIC— GM- Wuling).


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

The joint venture between Hyundai and BAIC Group also produced more than 0.6 million cars during the same seven-month review period.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[12] Chinese brands, deepening competence and export efforts into the US market in 2006, Geely found that Chinese-brand cars were not yet good enough for the demanding US market, nor were Chinese car brands known.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

[14] Since then, Chinese automakers have broadened their involvement and strengthening of critical know-how beyond joint ventures.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

Significant parts of Western car factories have been acquired under Chinese ownership.


Question: What was the first Chinese car started importing to Finland?

China's automotive industry

For example, in 2010, Swedish passenger car brand and truck brand Volvo was bought as a subsidiary of Chinese company Geely and in February 2014, state company Dongfeng Motor Corporation invested $1.1 billion in the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.