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Residents of village nearby heed warnings, escape second slide yesterday.
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This paper is based on a qualitative study about the processes of boundary-making among Albanian-Italian and Albanian-Romanian couples in Italy. In particular, it focuses on the methodological challenges arisen during my fieldwork of interviewing mixed couples. Although joint couple interviews have rarely been considered as a technique per se, the paper shows how they actually represent something more than an interview format in between individual interviews and focus groups, precisely by virtue of the relationship between the two interviewees. In fact, joint couple interviews are characterised by three main dimensions: perfomance, meta-communication and positionality – which add essential meanings to the narratives themselves. Firstly, joint couple interviews provide observational data through the couples’ interactions; secondly, they constitute an opportunity to display the couple/family history to a multiple audience (the researcher, the partner, the ‘witness’); thirdly, they need to be carefully considered at the intersection between participants’ and researcher’s positionalities.
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Dr. Nicolas Kretzulesco, one of the most important character of the Romanian political scene and founder member of the Romanian Medical school, traveled to Egypt at the end of 1868. During the voyage, that lasted four month, dr. Nicolas Kretzulesco kept a diary containing all his impressions about the cruise on the Nile. He was embarked on a ship put on his hand by kedival Ismail Pascha. His journal include interesting information about all notable persons he met, about the archaeological researches in Egypt, many ethnographical and geographical observations and, not at last, some important remarks abaut the progress made by the state of Egypt in the end of the XIX-th century.
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Cultural tourism” represents a phenomenon that has gain wide currency in recent decades. A product of demographic, social and cultural trends, cultural tourism has been identified as a growing and lucrative sector of the tourism industry. Individual organizations and communities have also embraced cultural tourism as a potential economic savior: as traditional mass employment industries continue to downsize, cities and towns have turned to cultural tourism as a particularly “21st century” generator of economic activity and jobs.
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Fragment of the author’s text: “I travel alone because solitariness without any filters and covers is indispensable in an encounter and always remains a path leading towards people and amongst them. True, I have my loyal companions: hurriedness and the fear that I shall not be on time. Sometimes, I am late. Or perhaps I map sites to be eliminated? They prove to be too fragile not only in the face of phantasmas but also of popularity transforming holy places into the amusement parks of photographers. It is thus better to obliterate names, dates, and trails, to use invisible ink for writing key words on this unearthly map, which ignores walls raised by the preachers and protagonists of the global brawl. From the very heart of Asia to Latin America, from the Maghreb to the Middle East, from the source of the Nile to the mouth of the Onega. Wherever signs, presences, gestures, and glances emerge from the shadows of monotheism. This means Africa, or rather many Africas, with its gods exiled in the manner of people, the womb of the last living archetypes, where religiosity, in other words, literally a bond, is created in mutual contact between the living and the dead, an endless conversation with ancestors. Places where words are not separated from things, and which are inhabited, just like ancient Greece, by deities created in the shape of man”.
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The article has a character of the review and concerns Polish publications on human security in the city. It begins with distinction of research directions in crime geography and the review of definitions of the sense of security. Next, selected Polish publications on the human security in the city and their results are presented. The following issues are discussed in the paper: 1) good and bad neighborhoods as a spatial stereotypes, 2) a sense of security vs. the type of building area, 3) a sense of security in the public places, 4) a sense of security in the neighborhood, 5) a sense of security vs. time of day, and 6) a sense of security vs. socio-demographic characteristics.
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This article is devoted to the presentation of different narratives associated with the figure of Romuald Rajs – a member of the armed underground, who is currently in the pantheon of “Cursed Soldiers”. However, he also participated in the murder of haulers and in the pacification of the few Belarusian villages during which women and children were also killed. The existence of two different “legends” about this character, which can be found on the Polish-Belarusian borderland is the main reason for tensions – related to the memory of the war and the days immediately after it – between Belarusians and Poles, and more broadly, Orthodox and Catholics. The figure of “Bury” is at the root of the conflict between the memories of the above-mentioned groups and we can assume that this may affect on worsening of Polish-Belarusian relations in Podlasie. In the article, except to explain what is the collective memory and a memories conflict, I describe the figure of Rajs – the most important facts of his life, especially those, that are the essence of the dispute for the sake of their different interpretation.
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This paper examines the history of the production of bryndza, a sheep milk product considered traditional to and symbolic of Slovakia. Bryndza is a kneaded, salted and preserved sheep cheese is the product of Carpathian sheep breeding and its specific lifestyle associated with the Wallach colonization of Slovakia. Geographical conditions favorable to sheep breeding across most of Slovakia and native adaptations of sheep cheese for better marketability gave rise to this specifically Slovak product and made it the chief export of local sheep breeding. This was significantly aided by dedicated bryndza manufactures the first of which was founded in 1787 by Ján Vagač in Detva. This paper examines its founding and traces its history all to way to its nationalization and dissolution.
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Development of industry and technology brought together the factor of urbanization. Various environmental problems such as air pollution emerged together with the concept of rapid urbanisation. In this study, a research was done about air pollution which is caused due to particle matters in Artvin, Bayburt, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize, Trabzon within the boundaries of Eastern Black Sea Region and PM10 contaminant was evaluated. Hourly PM10 concentration data for 2010-2014 years belonging to The Eastern Black Sea Region cities were obtained from T.R. Ministry of Environment and Urbanization Air Quality Monitoring Stations WEB site. Measurement results were compared and evaluated with Air Quality Evaluation and Management Regulation, European Union Air Quality Standards, USA National Air Quality Standards and Long and Short Term Limit Values belonging to World Health Organization. With this study it was determined that the cities which have the highest air quality in the sense of PM10 in the Black Sea Region were Giresun and Artvin and the cities which have the lowest quality were Trabzon and Gümüşhane.
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Fishing industry in Turkey has a great importance because of the country’s geographical location and efficient natural resources. Within the regional seas in Turkey, the Eastern Black Sea Region come first at the amount of production and a large part of the population live on fishing. This study is intended to inform about the current situation about fishing in Turkey and in the Eastern Black Sea Region. For this, information about hunting of aquatic products, fishing boats, shelters, employment figures and etc. are given. Besides resources obtained from the sea, the information about aquaculture is located in the next. And in the final section, an overall assessment about fishing in the Eastern Black Sea Region is located in the conclusion.
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The Valla Canyon has a karstic structure and is located in northern Turkey in the Pınarbaşı District of the historical Kastamonu city. It is one of the biggest canyons in Turkey and was composed by merging the Devrekani and Kanli Streams. The length of the canyon is 12 km and the depth is 1000-1200 m. Access to the canyon is located in Kure Mountains National Park (The only PAN Park in Turkey) and it is possible to access it via paths. Few people know and visit the canyon because of the lack of advertisement. The aim of this research is to determine geomorphological features of the canyon and to reveal tourism potential. Geological, topographical, and tectonic features were mapped and tourism potential was determined by analyzing SWOT as a method. Flora diversity, magnitude of the canyon, climate, humidity level of the mountains, its being close to water production sources, its huge karstic features, and its numbers of caves and waterfalls are strengths of the canyon. As a result, Valla Canyon has a huge tourism potential with natural beauties, attractions and it is proper for nature sports like rock climbing, canyoneering and trekking. Because of the high difficulty level, it will be a unique example for international climbers and canyoneers.
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This study deals with the political developments in the Hopa region during its historical development. Firstly, a conceptual framework of analysis was created on the basis of the relationship between local politics and space, and then within this framework, local political relations and struggles were analyzed from the Early Republican period to the present day. The core data of the study consisted of long field studies, in-depth interviews with local politicians and statistical data. The study ultimately identified patronage and clientalist relationships that developed in the local political context during the capitalist modernization processes of central-local interactions and local social structure. The research came to result that the local political and social realm, which holds quite a lot of pluralistic political relations, is currently undergoing profound changes with transnational spatial changes.
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In the history of coal to the throne, oil supplies of energy resources, then walk in the discussions, both socio-economic and political life has increased. In particular, the oil crisis in the 1970s, the energy security, and how important it is revealed. Post-cold War security in the perceptions of energy security, managed to enter in the 2000s, especially between Russia and Ukraine after the gas crisis, it has become more and more different. This crisis, energy security policies are revised, and the new energy policy is implemented. Energy security policies of the new view, as security of supply, in giving weight to this crisis has been effective. Understanding the different types of energy policies implemented in line with on the basis of alternative pipelines to be built is located. Therefore, this innovation adopted the line of the route of the importance of security and to reach new heights of more complicated. Important routes between the black sea region for all energy out of the struggle within the different poles for different degree of importance. The significance of this project, planned for today in the region on the basis of intensive study.
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Central Asian Turks have left indelible prints behind for the history of politics, state and civilization by taming the horse, which takes part also in the twelve animal calendars. According to their epics and legends, they gave names to their horses before giving names to their children. They regarded them as their faithful friends, and carried the equine culture from Central Asia to Anatolia. Today, wild horse herds are still living in different regions and cities in Anatolia such as Karaman, Afyonkarahisar, Manisa Spil Mount, Kayseri Erciyes, Samsun andin the Sarıkum region on the Sinop-Ayancık way. In the latter place,too, wild horses are born and roam freely in the countryside, as in Central Asia. They were left to the nature as modern vehicles replaced them in transportation. Those horses, freed at the beginning of the1980s, are known as ‘Yahya’s horses’ among the local people. They started to run wild while living in the nature, and their number has reached 200 within a short time. As the road between Sinop and Ayancık passes through Sarıkum, where the wild horses live, they sometimes cause traffic accidents while crossing the road. Because of the worries of people in the region, it is said that they were taken to an unknown place by lorries and trucks. Today their number is around 30- 40. In this paper, attention was drawn to the presence and touristic and economic potential of those horses. Besides, importance of horse and equine culture terminology is emphasized.
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Being one of the most important settlement centres in Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, together with its politic, military, economic and cultural activities maintains its special feature of being an important centre in terms of religion as well. Being the most active religions of the Middle Age, Mazdeism and Christianity struggled to dominate the region. Two representatives of these religions, Persian and East Roman Empires, attacked the region continually benefiting from the feudal structure of the region. Christianity emerged triumphant in the religion war of the these two empires. The communities in Eastern Anatolia are acknowledged to have accepted the Christianity contradicted with the East Roman Christianity. Gregoryen became the representative of Christianity.
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In this study talking about the geography location and the name of İstanbul which was the second capital city of Roman Empire, its post and proconquest situations, have been evaluated in respect to Turkısh and islamic world and Bizans and Europe world. Followed by the explanation population variation, housing activities, scientific activities, management, commercial and economic transformations which had occured during post-conquest of İstanbul, the policy Fatih and applied against the prisoners has been mentioned as well. Consequently, performing the evaluation of the conquest from the viewpoint of Turc-Islam history and Byzans- Europe, the opinions of historians over the conquest have been included.
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European Union is the most complex existing organization but also the most successful integration that mankind has ever seen. It consists of tree and democratic nations with their freely expressed interest and will. Therefore the European future for them will be visible. Even though it is a long and very difficult process die people of die region need to be convinced that the EU integration process will determine die path that is to be followed in order to better address the interests and obligations in compliance with the framework of EU integration process.
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