Beyond asado ( the Argentine barbecue ), no other dish more genuinely matches the national identity.

In the original traditional cuisines, the precise selection of spices for each dish is a matter of national or regional cultural tradition, religious practice, and, to some extent, family preference.

Traditional dishes are so important to regional culture that, for example, the local version of Caribbean goat stew has been chosen as the official national dish of Montserrat and is also one of the signature dishes of St. Kitts and Nevis.

To this day, couscous is known as ' the North Africa national dish '.

* Fasolada, a bean soup defined in many cookery books as the traditional Greek dish, sometimes even called " the " national food of the Greeks ".

The haggis is a traditional Scottish dish, considered the national dish of Scotland as a result of Robert Burns ' poem Address to a Haggis of 1787.

The main Moroccan Berber dish most people are familiar with is couscous, the old national delicacy.

Bryndzové halušky is the Slovakian national dish, made of a batter of flour and finely grated potatoes that is boiled to form dumplings.

Common examples include public holidays ( particularly those unique to a particular nation ), the singing of national anthems, and traditional national cuisine ( see national dish ).

It has been asserted that frumenty is " our oldest national dish ".

Many non-Spaniards view paella as Spain's national dish, but most Spaniards consider it to be a regional Valencian dish.

Ćevapčići, national dish of Serbia

The dessert is a popular dish and an important part of the national cuisine of both countries, and with its simple recipe, is frequently served during celebratory and holiday meals.

Chop suey appears in a 1884 article in the Brooklyn Eagle, by Wong Chin Foo, " Chinese Cooking ," which he says " may justly be called the " national dish of China.

* Barbados – Brown Pelican ( national bird ), Dolphin fish ( national fish ), Flying Fish ( national dish )

Corned beef is not considered an Irish national dish, and the connection with Saint Patrick's Day specifically originates as part of Irish-American culture, and is often part of their celebrations in North America.

It has been called " Britain's true national dish.

The addition of powdered sugar, which usually contains corn starch, to the uncooked meringue produces a pavlova, a national dish of Australia and New Zealand.

In Scotland, rutabagas and potatoes are boiled and mashed separately to produce " neeps and tatties " (" tatties " being the Scots word for potatoes ), traditionally served with the Scottish national dish of haggis as the main course of a Burns supper.

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

The Council also condemned and executed Jan Hus and ruled on issues of national sovereignty, the rights of pagans, and just war in response to a conflict between the Kingdom of Poland and the Order of the Teutonic Knights.

Gdańsk is situated at the mouth of the Motława River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the nearby Vistula River, whose waterway system supplies 60 % of the area of Poland and connects Gdańsk to the national capital in Warsaw.

In the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) the winners imposed relatively hard conditions on Germany and recognised the new states ( such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ) created in central Europe from the defunct German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, supposedly out of national self-determination.

An icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, one of the national symbols of Poland.

Nevertheless, irradiated foods that fall within the single category ; ' dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings ' are permitted presently in all 27 member states of the European Community and seven countries ( Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom ) also maintain a number of national regulations that allow other irradiated foods to be marketed as long as they comply with Directvie 1999 / 2 / EC.

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (, " Dąbrowski's Mazurka ") is the national anthem of Poland.

One of the songs strongly influenced by Poland Is Not Yet Lost is Hey Slavs, a former national anthem of Yugoslavia.

It was officially adopted as the national anthem of the Republic of Poland in 1926.

Kościuszko, mentioned in a stanza now missing from the anthem, became a hero of the American Revolutionary War before coming back to Poland to defend his native country from Russia in the war of 1792 and a national uprising he led in 1794.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

The attempts to create a Masurian Polish national consciousness, largely originating from nationalist circles of Greater Poland, however faced the resistance of the Masurians, who, despite having similar folk traditions and linguistics to Poles, regarded themselves Prussians and later Germans.

Four national parks and numerous reserves have been established in the voivodeship to protect the environment of Lesser Poland.

Many other similarities may be found among current national flags, particularly if inversions of color schemes are considered ( e. g., compare the flag of Côte d ' Ivoire to that of Ireland and Indonesia and Poland.

Singer Diana Ross performed the national anthem, which followed a moment of silence in support of the Polish trade union Solidarity ; following the crackdown by the communist government of Poland on the pro-democracy union.

Under the guise of supporting the Soviets ' own national self-determination concept, von Kuhlman and General Max Hoffmann, when they returned to the negotiation table proposed independence for the Baltic states, Poland and the Ukraine as part of their new peace proposals.

The War of the Polish Succession ( 1733 – 1738 ) was a major European war for princes ' possessions sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II, King of Poland that other European powers widened in pursuit of their own national interests.

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* 1285 – January 6 – Archbishop Jakub Świnka orders all priests subject to his bishopry in Poland to deliver sermons in Polish rather than German, thus further unifying the Catholic Church in Poland and fostering a national identity.

Other countries have also designated the oak as their national tree including England, Estonia, France, Germany, Moldova, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the United States, Wales, Galicia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.

* January 6 – Archbishop Jakub Świnka orders all priests subject to his bishopry in Poland to deliver sermons in Polish rather than German, thus further unifying the Catholic Church in Poland and fostering a national identity.

There are a number of national and locally produced television and radio channels available both over-the-air from the nearby RTCN Białystok ( Krynice ) Mast, the seventh highest structure in Poland, in addition to transmitter sites within the city.

On 15 October 1817, Tadeusz Kościuszko, the national hero of Poland and United States, died in Solothurn and was initially interred in the local cemetery.