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As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.
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capital and Axis
** Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
When spelled with a capital " A ", the word " Allies " usually denotes the countries who fought together against the Central Powers in World War I ( the Allies of World War I ), or those who fought against the Axis Powers in World War II ( the Allies of World War II ).
Advancing rapidly, Axis forces captured Athens, Greece's capital on April 27, 1941 effectively placing most of the country under occupation.
Nearly three months afterwards, on 23 September 1940, the Vichy air force saw action again when the British tried to take Dakar, the capital of Senegal, after a failed attempt ( as at Mers-el-Kébir ) to persuade the French to join the Allied cause against the Axis.
It was the closest that the Axis forces ever got to capturing the Soviet capital.
During the Second World War Metsovo was the capital of a puppet state, established by the Axis forces, known as Principality of Pindus.
Manizales is a city and municipality in central Colombia, capital of the Department of Caldas and part of the region of Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis, near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.
" Axis of the Faith ") was a Turkic king of Northwest India who ruled from his capital in Delhi where he built the Qutub Minar and the Quwwat Al Islam mosque.
The Axis forces were pursued through Libya and the capital Tripoli was captured by Eighth Army in January 1943.
* Veliki Bečkerek – county administrative center ( 1918-1922 ); capital of Banat region within Axis puppet state of Serbia ( 1941-1944 ).
There it was encircled along with the rest of the Axis troops in the Hungarian capital and destroyed.
capital and country
The capital expansion programs of business firms involve multi-year budgeting and the same is true of country development programs.
The champagne at Troyes, the traditional capital of the champagne country, has more ambrosial taste somehow than it has at a sidewalk cafe on the Rue de la Paix or at Tour D'Argent.
Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.
In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.
Each country was allowed two sites at which it could base a defensive system, one for the capital and one for ICBM silos ( Art.
He allowed the peso to float and reinstated restrictions on the movement of capital in and out of the country.
Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.
In little time, in 1890, the recently proclaimed Brazilian Republic decreed the prohibition of capoeira in the whole country, as things were pretty chaotic in the Brazilian capital and many police reports would demonstrate that capoeira was an undeserved advantage in a fight.
Such links through neighbouring countries are generally more important for the east and south-east of the country, and are more heavily used, than surface links to the capital.
Despite the relative cultural monopoly of the capital and the centralized government, the divided geography of the country allowed distinct rural dialects to flourish during the centuries.
In practice, a diplomatic mission usually denotes the resident mission, namely the office of a country's diplomatic representatives in the capital city of another country.
In 2011 the government announced it was planning a new capital in the country, named Djibloho.
From the establishment of the Tokugawa bakufus headquarters at Edo, although Kyoto remained the formal capital of the country the de facto capital was now Edo ; it was the center of political power.
Carson believes that a true free market society would be " world in which ... land and property widely distributed, capital freely available to laborers through mutual banks, productive technology freely available in every country without patents, and every people free to develop locally without colonial robbery ..."
The UFC responded by pouring investment capital into the country, buying controlling shares of the railroad, electric utility, and telegraph, while also winning control of over 40 % of the country's best land and de facto control over its only port facility.
De Gaulle withdrew the French administration, with much of the French population following, which took much of the country ’ s infrastructure and large amounts of capital.
For some time, Bhatinda remained the capital of the kingdom of Bhatti Rajputs of the Pal clan, who ruled North India before the Muslims occupied the country.
One very significant economic obstacle in Haiti's early independence was its necessary payment of 150 million francs to France beginning in 1825 ; this did much to drain the country of its capital stock.
The country experienced economic growth during this period, with greater international demand for its products and the increased availability of foreign commercial capital.
Both Puerto Cortés, the country's largest port, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras's industrial capital, are located here, as is La Ceiba, the third largest city in the country.
The country lacked raw materials, infrastructure and capital.
Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.
Another difference between domestic and international trade is that factors of production such as capital and labor are typically more mobile within a country than across countries.
The Ricardian model does not directly consider factor endowments, such as the relative amounts of labor and capital within a country.
capital and major
The latter fell after a violent fight, leaving the road open to the major city and provincial capital of Málaga, which he captured after one day.
It was thought, however, that locating the capital in a major city like Frankfurt or Hamburg would imply a permanent capital.
Bursa became the first major capital city of the early Ottoman Empire following its capture from the Byzantines in 1326.
The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica and Doboj in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.
Bordeaux is the world's major wine industry capital.
N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.
A major factor in perpetuating cross ownership of shares is a high capital gains tax rate.
Having restored the unity of the Empire, and, being in course of major governmental reforms as well as of sponsoring the consolidation of the Christian church, he was well aware that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital.
* Constantinople makes an appearance in the MMORPG game Silkroad as a major capital, along with a major Chinese capital.
The state capital is Hartford, and other major cities and towns ( by population ) include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain, Greenwich and Bristol.
Roseau, the nation's capital and major port, is favorably situated on the sheltered, southwestern coast.
This comprises one of the main ways of transportation inside the capital city of Santo Domingo, as well as other major cities.
The distinguished governor and major of the capital, who already has both hands full of things to do, has turned to our lofty piety in order to reorganize the entry and exit of all ships through the Dardanelles ... ...
More than 25 % of all Danish speakers live in the metropolitan area of the capital and most government agencies, institutions and major businesses keep their main offices in Copenhagen, something that has resulted in a very homogeneous national speech norm.
The Swedish part, however, goes through most of Sweden except the extreme north, and it is commonly considered the highway backbone of Sweden, since it passes in the immediate vicinity of all the major cities and large towns except four ( these being Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås and Örebro ), but including Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.
Some of the major national development projects include the New Kabul City next to the capital, the Ghazi Amanullah Khan City east of Jalalabad, and the Aino Mena in Kandahar.
In 784 Kammu shifted his capital from Nara to Nagaoka-kyō in a move that was said to be designed to edge the powerful Nara Buddhist establishments out of state politics — while the capital moved, the major Buddhist temples, and their officials, stayed put.
The Helsinki Guard, the strongest Red unit with its crucial strategic position in the capital of Finland had already become active on 23 – 25 January, aiming to secure a major power base for the Reds.
Its major towns were Tiberias — which was capital of the district — Qadas, Baysan, Acre, Saffuriya and Kabul.
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