Ayran or laban is a cold beverage of yogurt mixed with cold water and sometimes salt ; it is popular in many Central Asian, Middle Eastern and South-eastern European countries.

) is a perennial plant of the star thistle genus that grows natively in Central and South-eastern Europe ( from Southern Germany and Northern Italy to Romania and Bulgaria ), but has also been introduced and is now a noxious weed in the Northern United States, Canada and Southern Australia.

* First Balkan Wars ( 1912 – 1913 ) – two wars that took place in South-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.

South-eastern, the Champ-Jacquet square, with Renaissance buildings and a statue of mayor Jean Leperdit ripping up a conscription list.

According to Dixie's Forgotten People: the South's Poor Whites, by J. Wayne Flynt, geophagy was quite common among poor whites in the South-eastern United States.

* South-eastern Graian Alps ( It: Alpi di Lanzo e dell ' Alta Moriana / Fr: Alpes Grées )-SOIUSA code: I / A-7. I,

In September 2004, FDi magazine ( a Financial Times Business Ltd publication ) proclaimed Varna South-eastern Europe City of the Future citing its strategic location, fast-growing economy, rich cultural heritage and higher education.

* South-eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland: Rolly Gilbert told of how Captain Cook and others sailed the oceans in a boat, and decided to come to see Australia.

More information about the fates of Germans who were taken prisoners and died still remain in unopened archives in Eastern and South-eastern Europe.

South-eastern Wexford is an important site for wild birds — the north side of Wexford Harbour, the North Slob, is home to 10, 000 Greenland White-Fronted Geese each winter ( roughly one third of the entire world's population ), while in the summer Lady's Island Lake is an important breeding site for terns, especially the Roseate Tern.

Because many of these weavers settled in South-eastern England in Norwich the 14 extant 16th and 17th century carpets are sometimes referred to as " Norwich carpets.

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It was in the second half of the 14th century that a new wave of settlers i. e. the Vallachians, came from the South-eastern Carpathians and quickly spread all over Red Ruthenia.

Nowhere, perhaps, does the equivalence of the shadow to the life or soul come out more clearly than in some customs practised to this day in South-eastern Europe.

C. s. gymnopis is found in Central, Eastern, and South-eastern Australia.

Amongst its dialects, the Central Kumauni is spoken in Almora and northern Nainital, North-eastern Kumauni is in Pithoragarh, South-eastern Kumauni is in South-eastern Nainital, Western Kumauni is west of Almora and Nainital.

South-eastern Melbourne is growing rapidly and traffic density is high.

South-eastern Finnish, for example, has many expressive loans.

From the mid-18th century through to the 1830s, numerous Irish immigrants from Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork settled in Placentia, so that the population of the modern town is largely of a mixture of West Country English and South-eastern Irish background.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Case studies and good practices ( from European cities and some worldwide examples ) that promote and stimulate this kind of functional cycling in cities can be found at Eltis, Europe's portal for local transport.

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

Portrayals of female homosexuality not only formed European consciousness about lesbianism, but Krafft-Ebbing cited the characters in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo ( 1862 ) and Ernest Feydeau's Le Comte de Chalis ( 1867 ) as examples of lesbians because both novels feature female protagonists who do not adhere to social norms and express " contrary sexual feeling ", although neither participated in same-sex desire or sexual behavior.

Prior to the discovery of the bodies in Lindow Moss, British bog bodies had been a relatively neglected subject compared to European examples.

Some examples would include the European Union which, while it does not hold much political sway on a national level ; has the authority to dictate some laws of member nations and impose norms and policies that may not have been voted for by national referendum.

However, in Byzantine and in Western European history, dynastic marriages were quite usual and there are many examples which were much more strange.

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

These examples of polysemy served the double purpose of showing that indigenous languages sometimes made more fine grained semantic distinctions than European languages and that direct translation between two languages, even of seemingly basic concepts like snow or water, is not always possible.

A large variety of case studies and good practices ( from European cities and some worldwide examples ) that promote and stimulate walking as a means of transportation in cities can be found at Eltis, Europe's portal for local transport.

Solitude Palace in Stuttgart and Chinese Palace in Oranienbaum, the Bavarian church of Wies and Sanssouci in Potsdam are examples of how Rococo made its way into European architecture.

Letter-bombs, along with anti-personnel mines, are typical examples of subject-matter excluded from patentability under the European Patent Convention, because the publication or exploitation of such inventions are contrary to the " ordre public "

Major European examples of stock exchanges include the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Paris Bourse, and the Deutsche Börse ( Frankfurt Stock Exchange ).

Peter Wagner's Neumenkunde ( 1905 ) volume set out the various musical signs of all the most ancient notational styles historically and paleographically, including Jewish and Byzantine neumes, while providing a number of facsimile illustrations, giving rhythmically proportional values for the musical signs along with a few examples of proportional interpretations of certain chants in modern Western European notation.

Avanti, Tony Kart, Trulli, Birel, CRG, Gillard, Intrepid, Kosmic, Zanardi or FA Kart are a few well known examples of the many European manufacturers of race-quality chassis.

Flint implements, like those found in Siberia, have been found at Dui and Kusunai in great numbers, as well as polished stone hatchets, like European examples, primitive pottery with decorations like those of the Olonets, and stone weights for nets.

In an interview with Time Asia bureau prior to the 2004 presidential elections, Chen used the model of Germany and the European Union as examples of how countries may come together, and the Soviet Union as illustrating how a country may fragment.

In the final chapter of Book I, Hindemith seeks to illustrate the wide-ranging relevance and applicability and of his system in analysis of music examples ranging from the early origins of European music to the contemporary.

Some examples of key partners include MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Caltech, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University ; world-class universities in Asia such as Beijing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Waseda, IIT of India ; and European universities like Cambridge University, Imperial College London, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Karolinska Institutet and Technische Universität München.

The philosophical roots of agrarianism include European and Chinese philosophers.

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

Other large ethnic groups include those of British and other European origin.

These include the regional competitions in Asia ( Badminton Asia Championships ) and Europe ( European Badminton Championships ), which produce the world's best players as well as the Pan America Badminton Championships.

European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

Government officials in charge of foreign policy include the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, currently Gordan Jandroković, and the President of the Republic, currently Ivo Josipović.

Examples include the European Central Bank ( ECB ), the Federal Reserve of the United States, and the People's Bank of China.

Bat species include: Blasius's horseshoe bat, the lesser horseshoe bat, the greater horseshoe bat, the lesser mouse-eared bat, Geoffroy's bat, the whiskered bat, Kuhl's pipistrelle, the common pipistrelle, Savi's pipistrelle, the serotine bat, the long-eared bat, Schreiber's bat, and the European free-tailed bat.

Bird species include: the golden eagle, Bonelli's eagle, the bearded vulture or Lammergeier, the griffon vulture, Eleanora's falcon, peregrine falcon, lanner falcon, European kestrel, tawny owl, little owl, hooded crow, alpine chough, red-billed chough, and the hoopoe.

The government in the capital city Kinshasa, the United Nations, the European Union, and bilateral partners which include Angola, South Africa, and Belgium are attempting to create a viable force with the ability to provide the DRC with stability and security.

Musiqi is the Persian word for the science and art of music, muzik being the sound and performance of music ( Sakata 1983, ), though some things European influenced listeners would include, such as Quran chanting, are excluded.

The UKUSA intelligence community was assessed by the European Parliament ( EP ) in 2000 to include the signals intelligence agencies of each of the member states:

Afro-Ecuadorans make up most of the balance of the percentage, and include mulattos ( mixed European and sub-Saharan African ) and zambos ( mixed Amerindian and sub-Saharan African ).

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

* Associate member parties may include parties that do not have MEPs ( e. g., French Trotskyist parties which did not get elected in the 2004 European elections ), are from states that are not part of the European Union, or do not wish to be full members.

They include the Parti de Gauche and the French Communist Party, which formed the Front de Gauche for the 2009 European Parliament elections and obtained 6. 3 % of the votes.

The courts include: the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ); the international Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ( ITLOS ); the European Court of Justice ; European Court of Human Rights and other regional treaty tribunals.