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PoreÄ/Parenzo is almost 2,000 years old, and is set around a harbor protected from the sea by the small island of Sveti Nikola/San Nicola (Saint Nicholas).rom 1945 to 1991 PoreÄ/Parenzo was a city of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, then part of SR Croatia. In 1991 Croatia became an independent state. Today, the city's Italian name ( Parenzo ) is also used in an official capacity.
The vast waterlogged region of eastern Europe known as the Pripet (or Pripyat) Marshes is one of the largest wetlands of the European continent. The Pripet Marshes extend from southern Belarus into northern Ukraine. The marshes lie in the thickly forested basin of the Pripet (or Pripyat) River, which is a major tributary of the Dnieper River.